This is because glass has the hardness of crystal materials while also having a disordered arrangement of molecules like a liquid.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So one of the things that we've done for a while now is, we have this thing called Director Day.

所以我们一直在做的是，设立董事日。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Yes. Most of our clients are people who have been living in an apartment or in a house for a while

好的。绝大多数委托人都是在公寓或者住所内居住有一段时间了，

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Every once in a while we'll bring up an issue of well, how has this been interpreted over the centuries?

偶尔我们会提到，几个世纪以来是如何解读的？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

One description said it was like sitting in the driver's seat of a small car, while wearing two heavy raincoats.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

When I think about the two dimensions I'd like to explore first, I'd like to let you think about for a while the purpose of education.

在想两种形式的教育时,我要先进行探究，我希望你们先思考一下,教育的目的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But it is only a beginning. John Kress of the Smithsonian says that, while science accepts evolution, debate continues.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Voltaire went and hung out with Frederick the Great, and after a while he said, "Let me out of here."

伏尔泰曾经与腓特烈大帝来往,过了不久他便说,"我要离开"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He set a time limit for withdrawal of most American troops from Iraq, while increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

After a while, there were stretches where red gullies dropped off on either side of the road, and behind them there were patches of field buttoned together with 666 posts.

过了一会，有几段路,红色的排水沟在道路两旁延伸，后面是一块块的田地,一共有666根插在上面。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The formal parts of a game are this. We need players -- and while we're here let's develop some notation.

博弈由以下要素组成,参与人,首先我们得规定一下表述法

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The researchers left a piece of paper on the handlebars of the bicycles while their owners were away.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

First, it's pointing to the beginning of the list, which initially might be down here at but after a while, might be part way through. And to that, I simply add a halfway point, and then I check.

列表中间的一个部分了，然后我求出列表的中值点,然后看看该点的值是不是等于目标值，如果是的话就完成了，如果不是的话，如果中位值大于我要找的目标值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

We have kind of a slowing economy either because of that or because the economy kind of slows every once in a while.

我们的经济发展缓慢或者因为,上述原因或者因为我们的经济,偶尔陷入缓慢发展的泥潭。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

While there, he volunteered as a music teacher at a youth center in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

What they did is they scanned the brains of rats while they were in a maze and after they went through the maze.

他们在老鼠处在迷宫中及脱离迷宫后,分别对它们进行了脑扫描。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Many of his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Let's hang on for a little while longer to a set of conditions where we will maintain constant entropy, namely constant entropy and pressure.

我们先继续考虑,保持熵不变的情况，即保持熵和压强不变。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

A more recent side effect of Ambien that's quite serious is some people become--have the compulsion while they're sleeping to go driving, which is not good.

最近发现安必恩一个挺严重的副作用,有些人睡觉时,会有梦游驾车的冲动，这可不是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The highest point of the softly curved hill measures about three meters tall, while the lowest point is only a few centimeters thick.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The Apology takes place in the Court of Athens, the most public of settings, while the Crito occurs within the darkness and confinement of a prison cell.

苏格拉底自辩篇》发生在雅典的法庭，最公开的场合；,而《克里托篇》则是在,阴暗幽禁的监狱牢房之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It provides a continuous flow of air into the throat and lungs while the person sleeps.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

It actually takes several chapters to reach a resolution, and God pouts for quite a while, but a renewal of the covenant does occur, and another set of stone tablets is given, and according to one rabbinic text the broken tablets, as well as the new tablets, are both placed in the ark .

有很多章节描述了达成解决方案，上帝生气了很久，但是更新的契约出现了,上帝给了另一块石法板，一部犹太教义的文本显示，破碎的石法板，和新的石法板，都放在藏经柜中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There are four kinds of echidnas: three species are long-nosed, while another has a short nose.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

After a while, part of you is going to start asking, "Huh, say, it feels the same as it was yesterday, and the day before that and the day before that.

经过一段时间后，你会开始产生置疑，“原来和昨天的感觉一个样，和之前每一天的感觉都一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A team of surgeons is working to harvest an organ at one site while another team of surgeons is working to prepare the recipient at another site, and the organ is flown there.

一组外科医生,将器官从供体取出的同时,另一组医生在另一个地方,为移植手术做准备,等待器官空运过去

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选