Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Just contrast this for a brief moment to something like Selection Sort which from the get go had a ridiculous amount of redundancy comparing the same damn numbers again and again, and again.

这就与其他的排序算法形成了鲜明的对比,比如选择排序,它会一次又一次地做,多余的比较。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But if you look at the amount of money that the club makes from Asia, it's huge.

但是，如果你看一下俱乐部从亚洲挣的钱，真是巨大的一笔呀。

知道朴智星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Economic losses from the disease amount to an estimated one percent of the African economy each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

And, there's a huge amount of CO2 that comes from this process.

大量的二氧化碳2,来自于这一生产过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"People are more focused on communicable diseases and not paying enough attention to the amount of disability there is from mental health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

Siblings who obviously share a tremendous amount, and can be extraordinarily similar are precisely the siblings who can struggle and wrestle the most to differentiate themselves from one another.

兄弟们有很多的共同点，但就是这些有极大相似点的兄弟却,正是最能斗争和对抗的,以便与将彼此区分清楚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

From the amount of soot above it, it seemed to have been burning for ages.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

It's different from Fed policy in that they set up a certain amount of money and auction that off to the highest bidder.

这与美联储政策不同,因为他们设定了一定数量的连出价最高的投标者,都无法触及的货币拍卖。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It aims to decrease the amount of added sugar from many products that children eat.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

OK, so that means heat is being imparted to the system, right, from the surroundings in a manner that compensates exactly the amount of work done.

好，这表示系统,从外界吸热,吸收的热量与系统,对外做功的值相等。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

a small amount of fertilizer and dolomite, a powder-like substance made from limestone.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

So if we're going to eject an electron using a minimum amount of energy, that's where it's going to come from.

因此，如果我们要用最少的能量,激发出一个电子，那这个电子一定是，2，p，轨道上的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The wedding got an extreme amount of attention from the media.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

You hook one end of the spring to a wall and you pull it from rest by some amount and you attach the one kilogram mass to it.

你把弹簧的一端固定在墙上,然后拉伸一段距离,接着你把 1 千克物体固定在上面

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It is vast,it costs an enormous amount of money, but of course it is funded from taxation and the contribution made by patients."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

One of the big problems with studying human diseases is that you can study how they occur in people but there's only a limited amount that you can learn from people.

在人类疾病研究中的一个难题是,你有能力研究发病原因,但以人类为样本做研究却是备受限制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

BP is continuing efforts to increase the amount of oil being captured from its damaged underwater well.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

And so the amount of protein in a diet, from diet plan to diet plan, doesn't vary as much as the recommendations that these popular diets give you for fat and carbohydrate.

在不同食谱中,对于蛋白摄入量的差异,远远不如对脂肪,和碳水化合物的摄入量的差异那样大

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 knowing what percentage this is of the total amount leaking from the well will not be possible until a tight seal is on the well.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

And we'll assume that the amount of disutility you get from being far away from the winner is 1/17th of the distance, each of these, each place is worth 1/17th of a $1.

我们假设远离获胜者,导致的负效用的金额,是整个距离的1/17,每个位置价值1美元的1/17

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Speaking by telephone from Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, he told VOA this staggering amount of money allowed the Red Cross to undertake the biggest permanent housing program in its history.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

So, if we want to go from that stable state to that less stable state, we need to put in a certain amount of energy to our system, that difference between the free electron and the electron bound to the metal.

所以，如果我们想使电子,从稳态到达不够稳定的状态，我们需要引入一定数量的,能量到系统中，即自由电子和束缚于金属的,电子的能量差。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The amount of pressure from economic fronts, it is just enormous,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

And if that is the energy to go from n equals one n=2 this is the amount of energy that has to be left as kinetic energy of the electron.

如果这个能量是从n=1到,然后，to，n，equals，two，then,这些能量,会作为电子的动能,被消耗掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The mission found the repeated firing of rockets and mortars into southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip constituted war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Referring to last week's upward revision of the amount of oil leaking from the well, with substantially higher numbers than originally estimated by BP, Admiral Allen said President Obama and government officials want to make sure that BP is applying sufficient resources to deal with the spill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14