They could also learn how to prevent identity theft, how to understand their telephone bill, and even how to choose between competing cable television systems.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

They were totally surprised and excited, and they were thinking how could this happen, where did we got this split doublet from.

他们对此非常惊奇和激动，然后他们考虑为什么会这样，怎么会得到这种劈裂的双峰。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

and the one friend could explain how they would have responded.

而你这个朋友便解释若换成是自己，他会是怎样反应的。

That's what课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It has grown enormously and really provides a way for students who have creative innovative ideas about how they could create social change, and the Pay Center works with them and tries to implement those ideas.

现在它的规模扩大了很多，真正能帮助,有创新思想的学生,实现社会的改革，和这些学生们一起工作,来实践这些理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He said people could not control their reputation or how they were perceived, but that they could control their character, and that was much more important.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

you could characterize them in terms of how they're gated, -- and basically how they open or close -- that's one way to talk about different types.

你可以通过闸门的类型来描述它们，这基本上也就是看它们是如何打开或关闭的-,这是一种讨论不同类型的方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There are questions about how much Army officials knew about Major Hasan's alleged foreign contacts and political leanings, and whether they could have taken some action that might have prevented the massacre.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They could get together and say we are writing a new rule on how these gold proceeds can be used, but no one has taken the initiative to start to make that happen."

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

In a normal, productive, healthy, happy environment, people don't scream at you about how bad you're doing but they compliment how good you are and that could lead to an inflated self-esteem on the part of people in certain domains.

在一个正常，高效，健康快乐的环境里，人们不会大声跟你说你做得有多差,但他们会称赞你做得很好,因而导致人们在某些方面,自我评价膨胀。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ruhli and his team of researchers at the Swiss Mummy Institute have just completed the first feasibility study of how they could use the technology to reveal a mummy's secrets, without damaging the mummy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

How could you possibly settle there, because they settled Chalcedon first and the tradition that the Greeks pass on is the people who settle chalcedon were blind men, because you would have to be blind to make that choice.

他们怎么能建立在那个不毛之地呢,因为他们先前在卡尔西顿定居了,根据古希腊的传统记载,住在那里的人都是盲人,因为只有盲人才会去那个地方住

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选