A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

it's in thinking critically and applying the ideas that you get from reading that... really make it valuable.

学习文学能锻炼我们的批判性思维，我们还能将文学中体现的思想应用到现实生活中。这才是文学的价值所在。

文学是灵魂的方式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It had a factory that made guns for the army and a supply center of valuable military equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

It's as if the commodity of the bride is deemed truly valuable only if it can be guaranteed pure and untouched.

这就好像新娘这件商品,只有在完全的纯净没有动过才是有真正价值的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

OK. The process of writing is exercising both halves of your brain, and it's actually helping you learn, and so taking notes is really valuable thing.

好的，记笔记的过程同时锻炼了,你的左右脑，而且实际上帮助了你的学习，所以记笔记真的是一件特别有价值的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Foreign students represent a valuable resource, especially when public colleges and universities face budget cuts by states.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

And in fact, hazing through cognitive dissonance draws the inference that this is really, really valuable and this is why it exists.

事实上，根据认识失调来运用欺负新人这个手段得出一个结论,这个理论非常有价值，这就是为什么它会存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"When the feces is sanitized, all the pathogens are inactivated and killed, it is a valuable fertilizer.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In poker and most card games, the ace is the highest and most valuable card.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She has three thousand dollars in cash and owns valuable property in the country.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Actually, the automobile insurance is more important than the homeowners' insurance, even though homes are so much more valuable, because--I think that's because cars move and they drive around and they bump into each other.

实际上,尽管住宅要比汽车值钱的多,但是,汽车保险要远比,住宅保险重要,我觉得这是因为汽车是可以移动的,车主们开着车到处跑,容易相互碰撞

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She agreed and sent much valuable information about Union military plans.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

So, dimensional analysis is extremely valuable in thermodynamics, and here is an example of it.

因此，量纲分析,在热力学力很有用，这里就是一个例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And,for farmers, a more valuable dollar meant lower prices for crops.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Second thing I would say that was valuable "Thank goodness, I did one year at Stanford Business School and learned how to read a balance sheet and understand the basics of cost accounting which is not mathematical rocket science.

我要说的第二件事是很重要的,感谢上苍，我在斯坦福商学院学了一年,学会了怎么看资产平衡表，知道恶劣,成本会计的基本知识。

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Languages also contain valuable information about local medicines, plants and animals.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And even if we accept the valuable container theory, and so we say, " "Hah, you know, being alive per se is worth something as well."

如果我们接受有价值容器理论，我们会说，“活着本身也是有价值的“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some valuable things are very small, like diamonds and other jewels.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

So there's a return branch on every possible path through the code. And that's valuable, it's something you want to think about as your right your own.

所以代码中每条可能的路径,都会有一个返回值分支，这是非常有价值的,当你自己写程序的时候也应该考虑这件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And alfalfa can be a valuable food source for animals.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

So we've looked at how to solve square root we've, looked at two problems, I've tried to instill in you this sense of paranoia which is so valuable, and now we're going to pull back Python and return to something much simpler than numbers, and that's Python. All right?

我们已经研究了如何去求平方根,研究了两种方法,我一直在尝试着给你们逐渐灌输,要偏执的理念，这样的理念非常有价值，现在我们回过头来去学习一些,比数字更简单的东西，也就是,对不对？数学问题很难？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat, or for their ability to control weeds and help renew grasslands, or even for their ability to be gentle around children.

VOA: special.2010.09.07

And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant took home his fourth NBA crown and was voted the finals Most Valuable Player.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

After all, a blade of grass is alive, and I presume that even fans of the, what we might call valuable container theories, don't think that, " "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if-- " as long as I was alive in the way that a blade of grass is alive."

毕竟，一片草叶也是活着的，我觉得就算是，有价值容器理论的粉丝们，也不会认为，“活着不是很棒吗-,“即便是像一片草叶那样活着“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.

它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。

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