I was never no good after that night,Charley. It was like a peak you reach, and then it's downhill."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

It suggests that ecstasy is like wine, ; and wine is like an eagle clasping you; it's prey in its claws.

这里暗示着令人着迷的狂喜如同美酒一般，而酒又像是紧紧抓着你的鹰;,用它的利爪疯狂地掠夺着你所有的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They have these things called tiger tails which you like, tie onto your pants and it's like "I'm a little tiger."

他们有这些被称作“老虎尾巴”的东西，当你把它系到你的裤子上，你自己就仿佛是只“小老虎”。

我们是普林斯顿家族 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Walking is safe. And,it is said be to as valuable for one's health as more intense forms of exercise like jogging.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Internal communication is just the coordination around what we're doing and why we're doing it and what our goals are and why the goals are like that. That's it.

内部的交流就是协调我们手头的工作,搞清楚我们为什么在做这些工作,为什么我们有这些目标，就是如此。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

It's full of that we need so, you can just bury it in a pot and grow whatever you like."

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Last lecture, you might have thought this was a SHASS class, it's not like a philosophy class, and it was important to set the stage for what we're going to talk about, but we talked about very high level things.

上一节课，你们可能认为,这课没什么意思，这可能不太像一门哲学课，为我们所要讨论的去做好准备,是很重要的，我们上节课讲的是一些比较高层次的的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And whatever we want to do, it's outside the school or on our own or like private school or association outside."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Student: I guess it's because of the fact that he's doing something that's really not good, and it almost seems like he's trivializing it.

我想因为他想要做一些,不是很好的事情，他好像要使之平凡化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And it's like you don't give friends or family gifts, you give your boyfriend or your girlfriend.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.

因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And I feel like that's the real accomplishment for them, is that they saw it through.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

And if they had done a lottery where everyone consented that someone should die and it's sort of like they're all sacrificing themselves to save the rest.

但如果他们每人都同意抽签决定,谁应该牺牲,就像是所有的人都同意牺牲自己来救其他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Like many of Regina Spektor's songs, it tells a story filled with unusual details and sounds.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And so it's not like that, I assure you, it truly isn't.

所以不是那样的,我保证,绝对不是

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"It's like a detective story. It really is. And you just keep adding on the clues."

VOA: special.2010.06.28

And then, it's going to take off like a shot.

然后，它会像子弹一样离开。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But then if it's like during the summer and I'm really bored, I don't have anything else to do, then it might be a little longer."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Well, it was not very hard for me to draw this red blood cell here, it's just an oval, and one reason I draw it like an oval, is that that's basically what it looks like if you look at it.

我可以很容易的画出,一个血红细胞,就画个椭圆足矣,因为它看上去就是这个样子的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Google said it never meant to collect people's private information, like e-mails and passwords.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

It seems to me that the government's hands are rather tied becasue the government has very large deficit, and it's running curly from deficits So something like a third of the governments' revenues in income taxes it takes in go through paid interests on its debt.

好像政府现在,能力有限，因为庞大的赤字,政府也还在尽量避免,赤字情况,政府通过收入所得税',拿到的钱中1/3都,要拿去还政府欠债的利息。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

This is what's called the Bohr radius, and we'll explain - hopefully we'll get to it today where this Bohr radius name comes from, but for now what you need to know is just that it's a constant, just treat it like a constant, and it turns out to be equal to or about 1/2 an angstrom.

它叫做玻尔半径，我们后面会解释,希望我们今天可以讲到,波尔半径这个名称的由来，但现在你们只要记住,它是一个常数，只要把它当做一个常数对待，它等于,或者是1/2埃。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Bob Doughty has more. When you walk into Coppi's Italian restaurant, it looks like many other warm and lively eating places on the popular U Street corridor.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

And now, it's like everyone just wants to be in Central Park, picnics all the time in the summer.

而现在，好像人人都想去中央公园，在夏天，他们随时都想在这里野餐。

最美丽的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So basically, if we were to place a baby on the mother's abdomen, the baby would actually crawl up the mother's chest and choose which breast it would like to latch on to.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

It's one element like I claimed before it's sorted and so there's no work to be done.

当有1个元素时，在比较前就知道它是有序的,那就没必要再进行比较了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It features an innovative electronic information system, and the collection includes rare items like Chopin's last piano and his passport.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

It's sort of,it's a little like the markets and other things in that there's an element of randomness and an element of skill.

它可以说是一种有点像市场或者类似的其他东西,既包含了随机性,同时又包含了技术性。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This is going to affect the world; it's going to affect world economies; it's going to affect world politics, the balance of power and things like that, so it's important that we understand it.

这会影响全世界,会影响世界经济,会影响世界政治和权利的均衡,以及类似的事情,懂得这件事是很必要的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选