An extremely low body temperature can cause the heart to beat so slowly that a pulse may be difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?

我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Experts say any device used to heat a home should be inspected to make sure it is working correctly.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

And if it is going to be a standing wave then this must be an integral number of wavelengths.

如果这有个驻波的话,那么周长就是个整数。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They are proof that the best thing that can happen to a man is to be born lucky.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Right? I've allocated a variable, it happens to be a pointer; it's still a variable, who know what's in it, right?

对不？我分配了一个变量，它碰巧是一个指针，它还是一个变量，谁知道它里面是什么？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The young policeman thought anyone who claimed to be the emperor of the United State might be a danger to the public.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Right add to it in a second, but the idea is class is going to be a template for creating instances.

对象的实例的模板,现在，这真是一个很蠢的模板，我马上会去完善它,但是首先我应该先建立起它来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She was very intelligent. At a very early age she decided she wanted to be a writer someday.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Then a senator from Delaware agreed to be chairman of a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

This may seem to be a perfectly reasonable vision for a poet considering himself to be an inspired poet to have, but there's something peculiar here.

这对诗人是一个非常好的幻景,把自己看做是一位有灵感的诗人，但这儿还有些怪异的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

During this part, when you're doing a quarter of a circle, this is supposed to be a quarter of a circle.

在这部分,当你沿着四分之一圆运动,这就是个一个圆的四分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Here is a good reason to be hopeful about the future: it might help you stay alive.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Using the material you've learned in class, you'll be expected to answer some big questions for an 8-page final paper that you'll turn in at a date to be assigned.

运用你在课堂上学到的材料，在8页论文中回答某些大问题,然后准时交给我。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

She looked strange when she was a child, but she grew up to be a beautiful woman.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

It's also important, once we start talking about molecules, to have a way to represent them, and also to be able to look at a shorthand notation for a certain molecule and understand what the bond is.

还有很重要一点是，一旦我们开始讨论分子，我们需要有一种表示它们的方法，而且能够从中看出,某些分子的简化符号，并得知键的类型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

当痛苦的人,胜过当快乐的猪;,当痛苦的苏格拉底胜过当快乐的傻瓜。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"It's a great honor to be included as one of the recipients of the two thousand and eight Cable Television Hall of Fame."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

And there's a lot to be said about this but it could be pretty simply illustrated in language.

要想解释清这一点还是比较费劲的,但要用语言来说明就很简单了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"You do not need to be a rocket scientist to see that our soap cleans better."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

So despite their newfound mortality, humans are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

所以，尽管人类对死亡很陌生,但它不容忽视。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Come on." she says. "You do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

You need that object to be a substance, to be something.

这个物体得是某种物质，某种实体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I remember reading a--I like to browse among old books -I was reading a nineteenth century book about how to be a banker.

我比较喜欢翻翻旧书,我记得读过一本19世纪的老书,讲如何成为一名银行家

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选