An application is a software program that lets users do a task -- like listen to music or find directions.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

This is Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, which is a collaboration of an American man and a Korean woman who create online digital artworks.

这个是由，张海英重工业，制作的，这是一个美国人和,一个韩国女人一起合作的在线数字艺术的组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Because I feel like a portrait is an answer to a question which is, 'What was this person like?'

因为我觉得肖像画是这样一个问题的答案，那就是“这个人长什么样？"

关于现代美术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

An A is worth four points, a B three points, a C two points and a D one point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

About the size of a small dog, echidnas look like a mixture of a porcupine, an anteater,a pig and a mole.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Roughly 25% of you are likely to end up with some kind of an A at the end of the semester.

大概有四分之一的人,以90分或者更高而结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It was like going to a different planet. It was beautiful, it was an amazing,a frightening just yet invigorating experience."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

A perpetuity is an asset or a contract that pays a fixed amount of money each time period, forever.

永续年金是一种财产或者合同,规定在每一时间段内,支付一定数量的货币,直至永远

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He also invented the Skyhook, an air rescue system that involved an airplane and a large helium balloon.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Typical characterization, not all the time, but typical characterization, is an algorithm that reduces the size of a problem by one, or by some constant amount each time, is typically an example of a linear algorithm.

我们学习过了线性算法，它的典型特征，不是通用的,但是比较典型的特征是，它是逐一减小问题的大小的，或者说是每次减小常数的大小。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He continued working in his mother's theater company as an actor and a manager until nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

So, Kaufman says that the pagan worldview is one of an amoral universe ; Not a moral universe; not an immoral universe; but an amoral universe. It is morally neutral.

因此据考夫曼所说，异教认为,既不是道德的宇宙，也不是不道德的宇宙;,而是与道德无关的宇宙，它从道德上中立。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

To do that,go to chea.org As soon as you are accepted, make an appointment for a visa interview at an American embassy or consulate.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

One offer of one more idea which is to take a figure who we all know about, but who we view as, maybe a civil rights hero or an African-American hero, or a Christian hero, or an American hero and turn into a global interfaith hero.

再给大家提供一个重要观点,那就是选择一位众所周知的人物，但是我们可能将他视作民权运动英雄,或是非裔美国人英雄，或是基督教英雄，或是美国英雄,然后转变为一位全球跨信仰英雄。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Attend a sleepover,have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play, get any grade less than an A."

VOA: special.2011.02.17

First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe, then a further association in a village, and then you might say an association of villages that create a polis or a city.

首先是家庭，然后是众多家庭的结合形成部落，再扩大形成村庄，然后是村庄的结合,创造出了城邦或城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

So being a micro-organism that got a plasmid that give you resistance to an antibiotic would be a good thing - that gave you resistance to something that naturally killed cells like you in your environment would be a good thing.

假如一个微生物,因含有质粒而具有抗生素抗性,这实在是一桩美事--,在同样的环境下,普通细胞会被杀死,而你们这些具有抗性的细胞却安然无恙,这实在太棒了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Shays led a thousand war veterans in an attack on a federal building in Springfield, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

For example, maybe you are a partner at your firm and you're working with an associate on a project.

例如，你是公司的合伙人，你和一位同事正在共同跟进一个项目。

Would you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mr. Zorn says he believes he has a duty as an American citizen and as a citizen of the world to take action against genocide.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

they will have an A-D converter that fill data into the laptop.

他们会有一个A-D转换器,能把数据导入电脑。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Only after both the House and Senate have reached an agreement on a bill can it be presented to the president for his final approval.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

So, for example, if you had chosen Beta and your pair had chosen Alpha, then you would get a C and your pair would get an A.

比如说你选了β而你的对手选了α,你会得到C而你的对手会得到A

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

An arrangement, a little bit of a simplified version of it, where they're going to be doing 'Ode to Joy' with the Orchestra of St.Luke's."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Sometimes students think that if they write something and they say anything, they'll get an A.

有的学生会认为只要他们随便写点什么，
说点什么，就能拿到A。

与哲学系教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When Americans say wildcat, they usually mean a lynx, an ocelot or a bobcat.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

but it's, it's like tough to get an A.

但是想得到A级的成绩，简直是太难了。

是考试期间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选