"Malawi is a landlocked state, it is one of the ones that we tend to worry most about, and yet it has demonstrated that when you focus attention on a problem you can make progress."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He says he has no doubt that this will be a great World Cup and there will be no problem with security.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The problem is that he has a-- these people have very tight schedules and he's involved in various takeovers and things right now.

问题是他的日程,华尔街的人日程都很紧张,他手头有好几桩收购案

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Censorship has been a problem in Thailand off and on for decades, even without emergency laws.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The same problem is with organ transplantation is that the recipient has to be matched to the donor and so that's a problem.

和器官移植中的问题一样,受体需要与供体匹配,这就是问题所在

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Everyone understands that it is a national problem and something has to be done about that,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Milton was always wrestling with the problem of vocation in all of its meanings, and the problem of what a calling actually is and how one actually knows one has a calling is a problem that pulsates somewhere beneath most of the lines of poetry that Milton writes.

弥尔顿经常纠结于这两个,含义，以及到底什么是神的招唤,还有人们是怎么知道他被召唤了,这些问题反复出现在,弥尔顿的诗句中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"This is about every family, every business and every taxpayer who continues to shoulder the burden of a problem that Washington has failed to solve for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

And the dominant problems concern consist of a lack of social connectedness, problems with language, problems dealing with people, and more generally, a problem of what the psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen has described as "mind blindness."

主要症状包括缺乏社会联系,语言障碍,社交障碍,总而言之,会产生一种心理学家西蒙·伯龙·科恩,称之为"精神性盲"的症状

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

you still have the problem of an armed group, mainly Hezbollah, that runs a separate foreign policy and that has carefully built a state within a state for the last thirty years now.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Problem is here, that Player II has a continuum of strategies and trying to draw all possible probabilities over an infinite number of objects on the board is more than my drawing can do. Too hard.

现在问题是,参与人II的策略是连续的,想要把无限可能性的概率,做成图都画在黑板上,是不可能的了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I do not have a problem and I do not know anybody who has a problem. But the 'boogey man' Obama is trying to state that we have a problem, and he wants to tax us,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says many don't even have the active ingredients in them. There is a tendency to treat all fevers as malaria in West Africa,and resistance to otherwise effective treatments, like cloroquine, has become a problem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25