"First off,there is the infectious disease risk because if you use human blood there's a lot of transmissible diseases.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

Well, it's on one hand a very large idea to take in, particularly I think if one's working in a university.

这是一个很大的话题，不容易理解，对于在大学中工作学习的人尤为如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I actually think there's something to be said for the fact that if your a company, let's say, starting up,

我其实觉得这应该使人关注，如果你的公司，也许在创业的阶段，

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But if a Justice of the Peace can marry two people, it's clear that he can separate them.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

As Heidegger points out in this passage, that's a thought experiment which, if it can be done at all, derives from that prior knowledge.

海德格尔在文章中指出，这个思想实验，在可以实现的前提下，来源于之前的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Milton makes a covenant with the reader. It's as if he's signing a contract because he's asking for credit here.

他与读者签了契约，就好像,因为他要借款所以签了份合同一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

It's not a valid experiment if it has no chance of showing that my hypothesis is flawed.

如果根本没可能证明我的假设,是有瑕疵的，那么这个试验。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That is already a lot higher than President Obama's advisers had predicted for later this year, even if Congress passed a stimulus bill.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

We're going to get a deep insight if it's a necessary truth about death that everyone dies alone.

如果这是对死亡来说必不可少的真理,那我们能得到一些深刻理解。

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

But it's not a very good thing if my consciousness continues to narrow and constrict beyond the threat, or beyond the hardship.

但它变得不是很好,如果我的意识继续狭窄,收紧超出威胁，超出困难。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Parson Walker's wife was very sick once, for a long time, and it seemed as if they were not going to save her.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Professor Tindle says the study did not confirm whether optimism leads to healthier choices, or if it actually affects a person's physical health.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

It's a very important point, if you see the very simple math that I'm showing up here.

这一点要特别注意，看看这个简单的数学表达式。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

So if you're impure at home and just minding your own business, it's no big deal. It's only a problem if you decide you want to go to the sanctuary. So purity and impurity are states of qualification or disqualification for contact with sancta.

如果在家的时候不纯洁，一心只关注自己的事情，这倒不是什么大事，只有当你想去圣所的时候,才是个问题，因此纯洁和不纯洁只是表明了,你是否有资格接触圣所。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But if the plan succeeds, it could serve as a model for America's biggest carmaker,General Motors.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Let's think it through a second, If she stays in what's her payoff?

我们来思考一下,如果她参选,她的收益是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A doctor can use this test to tell if a patient might have the disease, as well as by studying the patient's medical history.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Here's a twist, and if you found people who were less wonderful than you all, and asked them, you'd get a lot of people saying the curving thing.

这是错误的,如果你去找一些没有你们优秀的人,问他们这个问题,很多人会回答你沿着曲线飞出

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Let's see if I can name a few off the cuff, or without any preparation.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

They will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of a subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber.

他们只扑灭发生在会员家里的火灾,或者是即将蔓延到他们会员家里的火灾。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Alzheimer's patients might not know what to do if food on a stove is burning.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

And the fact is, food is healthier if it has less trans fat, but it depends on what fat's swapped out for it, because if you put a healthier fat in then it's--then you get a certain amount of improvement.

事实是,如果食物中反式脂肪的含量较低,确实会更健康,但这取决于被剔除的脂肪种类,因为如果加入较为健康的脂肪,食物的质量会获得一定程度的改善

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Yet,many patients can lead a normal and healthy life if they follow their doctor's advice.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It makes a lot of sense when we look at it energetically, because if we think about a 1 s core electron, that's going to be held really, really tightly to the nucleus.

从能量的观点来看这是非常合理的，因为如果我们考虑一下，1，s，芯电子，它会被原子核束缚得非常非常紧。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选