Now,for this business to work, we must be able to produce a charming widow, with or without the beauty, as advertised."

VOA: special.2010.04.24

So you're going to be able to take a description of a problem and map it into something computational.

因此你们能拣出,一个问题的主要描述,并将其编成计算性的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

and then the Transport for London issues them with a license in order to be able to trade as a minicab.

然后，伦敦交通局发给他们一个驾照，以便他们能开微型出租车拉客。

小心微型出租车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That same year, Polk was able to get Congress to approve a bill that greatly reduced the taxes on imports.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So we're talking about a poem being able to sustain itself in the world to be equal to the world.

因此，一首高贵的诗歌能够,在这个世界中维持自我并与这个世界媲美。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But it was not until March tenth, eighteen seventy-six that Bell was able to send the human voice over a wire.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And so he's able to bear a rich extensive body of materials to talk about Shakespeare with the students.

所以说他收集了丰富的广泛的,材料来与学生讨论莎士比亚。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

You should be able to maybe print out a blank copy of those notes from the website not for memorizing them, but now just understanding how the photoelectric effect works.

你们应该可以从网站上打印一份,这些笔记中的空白的纸张,不仅仅是为了记忆，而且现在要理解,光电效应是如何工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

She says the new standards clearly state what a student should be able to do to be successful in college and work.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

You need to be able to integrate that information into a response, and that happens through these biochemical reactions.

体内的细胞要整合信息并作出反应,这个过程就通过这些生化反应来完成

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He stayed for almost one year. He was able to get a few paying jobs playing the saxophone.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

So the so-called lounge what you'll be able to find in just a week or so is timed with the first of the office hours if you so choose to join us for them.

一周左右的时间或者第一次上机的时候,你们就能看到这个所谓的休息室,你们到时候可以选择是否加入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In the end, he was able to produce a very similar crystal bracelet for less than twenty dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

It probably teaches each of them a good deal to be able to accommodate, to encounter, to get used to the ironies of the other, and I think this applies to conversation in general.

或许正是这种共生关系,教会了双方很多东西,使他们学会怎样提供，发现，并习惯对方的讽刺，我想这适用于一般的谈话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus by shining lights in their eyes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

How much energy are you going to get out, and how far are you going to be able to drive a car with this expansion, let's say, so that's the problem.

你能获得多少能量，利用这次膨胀,你可以把你的车开出多远，比如说这就是问题所在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But he wanted them to be able to land safely at Annapolis, a city on the Chesapeake Bay.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some people have been able to escape across the waters of a lagoon to a government-controlled area.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And as the last link is broken, we might be able to build effectively a bypass.

鉴于最后一个链接遭到破坏，我们可以通过设置旁路有效地建立起这个链接。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

But she also works in public relations and says that being able to tell a good story is very important in any job.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

In 1988, we asked people in Los Angeles, are you worried that unless I buy now I won't be able to afford a house in the future?

如果在1988年问洛杉矶居民,你担不担心,如果现在不买房,以后恐怕会买不起

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

On Thursday BP was finally able to cut a damaged pipe at the well using robotic vehicles.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

I call the second argument "The argument from recycling"-- not the best label I suppose, but I've never been able to come up with a better one.

我把第二个观点称为"循环观点",可能这不是最好的名称,但是我没有想到更好的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some people say he was able to cut a path of three to six meters a day.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Will you be able to do a lot of good in a for-profit organization,not for profit organization, on the board of your previous school, with your money,with your time?

你们能够做善事吗,在一个非营利机构里行善，在你母校的董事会，贡献金钱和时间？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Kevlar might not have been invented had Stephanie Kwolek been able to seek a career in medicine.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

If the vehicle in the unfortunate circumstances of a collision, has to be able to maintain the security of the hydrogen which means more mass, which means a lot of the efficiency is being squandered What's the environmental impact of hydrogen production?

如果车辆,在碰撞中发生了不幸，要仍然能够保持氢气的安全性的话,意味着需要更多的质量，也就是说大部分效率被浪费了,制氢对环境有什么影响呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And so they are hedging their belts, at least partly on India as a democratic English-speaking country ... which they may be able to... so strategically I think that's a very important sort of part in American thinking in terms of future of India.

所以美国要布下防线，至少在印度这个,说英语的民主国家布下防线,这样他们才可能。,因此从战略角度出发我认为,这是美国政府对于印度未来的,一大设想。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选