Drugs that need a doctor's prescription became a bigger part of the debate over health care costs in two thousand three.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Somebody says, "What is a mare?" "Well, it's a female horse." "Well, it's a female horse" is the metalingual function.

有人问“什么是母马“，“母马就是雌性的马“,“母马就是雌性的马“这句话就是元语功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a, Ascot is a... It's a venue for horse racing and sort of three days every year.

它是赛马比赛的场地，比赛每年都有，持续三天。

英国皇家赛马会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A lot has also been written about the possible effects that a name might have on a child's future.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

So my dad's a doctor, my uncle's a doctor, So it's kind like you're going to be a doctor.

我的父亲和叔叔都是医生，所以你本来也该成为医生的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"So,I'm also now a wilderness EMT so it's totally a good thing to have when you're out rock climbing."

VOA: special.2009.12.09

It's a ladder used to ascend a tree, it's a kind of tool of ascent that's a kind of a tool for getting fruit.

这是用来爬上树的梯子，是一种上升的工具,也是用来摘果子的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He invented the skill of throwing a special rope called a lasso over a cow's head to catch wandering cattle.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Thanks to some friends there's a foosball table, there's a candy machine and there's also a cat in the ceiling.

感谢一些朋友的赞助，这儿有一个桌上足球，一个糖果机,在天花板上还有一只玩具猫。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I said, "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit, And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it".

VOA: special.2010.07.02

We do have a victory hymn, a victory hymn that's inscribed on a stele that's a slab of stone--which was erected in the year 1204 BCE.

我们确实有胜利颂歌，刻在石碑上的胜利颂歌,那是一块石板，立于公元前1204年。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

In a number of ways, it's both a first poem and it's a poem about firsts.

在许多方面，它既是第一首诗，也是关于第一的一首诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A seizure is a sudden attack that may affect a person's mind or body for a short period.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

I have a friend who's a social psychologist who told me a story once that really made me very nervous, although she's fine.

我有一个社会心理学家朋友,她曾经给我说过一个故事,让我很紧张，虽然她现在一切都好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The new findings, he says, did not show that a person's sex was a predictor of beneficial crying.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

So in a sense the fact that there's a more critical screen, there's more of a careful thought process, the fact that customers are pickier with their money today, all of that really is a chance to make people better.

所以实际上，如果环境更为挑剔，人们的构思过程就会更为严谨细致，现在的消费者花每一分钱都精打细算，这其中产生的是让人们生活的更好的商机。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Another idea is that it could involve the foreign cells left in a woman's body after a pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Suppose you get a letter from your company saying, congratulations here's a $5 dividend and here's a check for $5 if you owned one share.

假设你收到了公司寄来的一封信,写着,恭喜您,这是5美元的分红,如果你有一股的话,就会收到5美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A woman who graduated from a women's college in nineteen fifty-three remembers hearing her as a graduation speaker.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

He's a monopoly; so she's a monopolist, so we know how to figure out monopoly quantities from what we did in 115 or equivalent courses.

她会形成垄断,我们都知道如何计算垄断产出,在115或者类似课程中都学过的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Different kinds of polarity form, there's a head, and there's a tail, there's a back, there's a front, there's a left side and there's a right side.

不同的极性开始形成,有头端,也有尾端,有后面,也有前面,有左侧,也有右侧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Plato says it's a story; it's a myth.

柏拉图说,它是个故事,是个传说

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If anything can produce fireworks, it is a sweetheart's kiss or the touch of a lover's hand.

VOA: special.2011.07.03

So it's a whole series-- when we listen to a single tone it's a whole series, and what Eva was doing there is playing out the notes in that series successively, and we'll keep banging on that.

它们是一系列的声音,我们听单频音,其实听到的是整个系列,伊娃刚才所做的就是,一个接一个奏响那个系列中的音符,关于这部分,我们会继续探讨

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They said it was unfair. "It's a rich man's war," they cried, "but a poor man's fight.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

If you've never seen it, it's a Kirk Douglas movie that's a good movie, and it's about the mutinies on the Western Front, and it's very good. We used to say, well come to 101 and it'll be a film that'll be shown at 8 p.M.

你要是从来没看过,这是一部科克·道格拉斯的电影,好电影,是关于西线战士反叛的故事,非常好,我们总说,欢迎来101教室晚上八点有电影

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But at the same time, Brooks says, "Well, after all she is a star to the speaker," and he's just saying, "She's a star to me; she's a flower half hidden, unnoticed to everyone else."

但是同时Brooks也说，“对说话者说，她就是一颗星星“,他说，“对我而言，她就是一颗星星;，她是长在土里的花，别人都没有注意到她“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选