"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The last thing I thought I will tell you about is a Broader look at the educational technology in MIT.

最后要讲的是对于麻省理工的,教育中的技术应用的整体看法。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

I think a good thing about London is you can get away with it a lot.

我想伦敦一个好的地方就是你可以远离它。

想成为引领时尚的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

So, the antigen we're thinking about is a vaccine particularly designed to elicit immune response against a pathogen.

我们现在考虑的这种抗原,是一种特别设计的疫苗,它能够诱发免疫效应以消灭病原体

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The director says "Living in Emergency" is a story about how things are, not how you wish things were.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And because there're so many issues you could look at when we talked about what is a just university.

另外有许多问题,都和公正的大学这个话题有关。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Marmaduke" is a film about a Great Dane and his human family who move to California from the Midwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.

但事实上，我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语，一个“童话“故事，普鲁斯特是一个同性恋，他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋，但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

is about his experiences as a child soldier in Sudan, how he changed and how he wants to make a difference.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

This is something that psychologists have been talking about for over a hundred years Human attention is part of human intelligence.

这就是心理学家,谈了百年的原理,注意力是人类智慧的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is about a bird named Francine who travels back in time to learn about her ancient relatives, the dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

OK, so, the thing about a state function is that the function has a value for initial conditions and at final conditions.

态函数的特点是,在初始状态有一个值,在末状态也有一个值。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now there is worry about a new threat headed in their direction in the wind a fungus that destroys wheat crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

First of all, as I said, this class is a class about making a difference in people's lives.

首先，正如我刚才说的，这门课是关于如何改变生活。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It tells the unusual story about a man who is born old and gets younger as time goes by.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

If you are interested in reading about these people, there is a Nobel prize website here you can learn about all these guys.

如果你们对他们的故事感兴趣，这儿有一个诺贝尔奖的网站,你会了解到他们的所有故事。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Redistribution is a - if you think about it, says the libertarian is a kind of coercion.

仔细想想，再分配这个概念，按自由主义者的话来说，就是强迫。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Rebecca Chiao says harassmap.org will help warn the public about areas where there is a high risk of harassment.

VOA: special.2010.11.29

Talk about a smile is just a way of talking about the body's ability to smile.

用笑作举例只是想说明,肉体具有笑的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Yet the study found that having a friend who is lonely can add about seventeen days a year of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

So, what autism is a disorder that strikes about one in a thousand people, mostly boys.

孤独症的发病率约为千分之一,病患多是男孩

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

We'll talk about what a calorie is and what it means and how it's measured.

我们还要讲什么是卡路里,其意义所在,以及评估方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But first,we tell about a new organization that is finding homes for animals and helping American soldiers at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is about a young farmer Nate and his wife Olive who is soon to become a mother.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

And you should know about Mike that he is a special person.

大家迈克此人比较特别。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The MRIs per capita is about half of that of United States, in Britain, which also has a government health program, there is only about a fourth in the United States.

加拿大核磁共振医疗设备,的人均使用量,只有美国的一半，在英国，也有一个政府医疗体系，只有美国的四分之一资金。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选