As a result, they used the frogs in fast-acting, low-cost pregnancy tests for women during the nineteen-forties and fifties.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Their hair gets caught on the tangled thickets of the forest as they abandon -- as they are forced to abandon - the classical corners of Milton's literary imagination.

当被迫放弃弥尔顿文学想象部分的时候,她们的头发被缠绕在,杂乱的丛林深处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

And the reason for the scale is -- that as we saw last week the idea of these algorithms-- I broke the scale already.

之所以要用到它,是因为上周我们讨论的这些算法思想-,我把天平弄坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In fact, the publication Science Watch listed her as the 49th most-cited researcher in the world during that 20-year period.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

I mean as an undergraduate, I majored in a field -Harvard still has it-- called History and Literature.

我在本科时，专业是,历史和文学，哈佛还有这个专业。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Now in music as you probably know-- we've already talked a little bit about this-- we have the importance of the beat.

你们也许知道在音乐中节拍很重要,我们已经讨论过一些,节拍的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And he made sure the country held its next presidential election as planned in eighteen sixty-four,when he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

But,he viewed "hereditary monarchy" as the unique port of salvation- that's a very religious image--that could save France.

不过,他把"世袭君主政体",当作是唯一的避风港,那是很有宗教色彩的,它可以拯救法国

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

As we do,we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2011.05.07

I want to point out that the zero energy is defined as when you have a naked proton -- where the electron has popped out -- that's what we've defined as zero energy up to this point when we're talking about single atoms.

我想指出，这里零点能的定义,是当我们只有一个裸露的质子,而没有电子时-,到目前为止对零点能一直采用这样的定义,当我们在讨论单个原子时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As of Tuesday, seventy-three countries had reported more than twenty-six thousand cases of the new H1N1 flu virus.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

As far as I can see,the best option for the body theorist at this point is to add--no surprises here--a no branching rule.

据我所知，肉体理论者最好的选择就是,毫无意外地，是加上一条无分支规则。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They were big,rough fellows. They had chosen me as the only 'Dutchman' -- as they called me -- to make them laugh.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

And then she is gripped with--as she says, "overcome all at once"-- by a need to touch him, as if she could not believe in him or would not remember him.

然后，就像她说的，“突然克服了“一样，她被一种接触他的需要紧紧握住，就像是她不能够相信他，或者是记得他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- or bought -- from somebody else.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

.. So, we have to frame things as-- put things in the mental categories-- presentation matters-- so that people can manage their risks right.

因此由于框架效应-,我们会把事物按照心理类别分类-,所以得注意使用正确的表述方式-,以便去恰当的进行风险管理。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In normal conversation, if I'm to say "S-- entence" you won't hear that as "S-- entence."

在正常对话中,如果我说"句-句子",你不会听成"句--子"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In his second season, he was chosen as a starter for the nineteen ninety-eight NBA All-Star Game.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

And rather than looking it as selfish-- some people may feel this ease way-- and rather than looking it as selfish i.e. -- equal immoral.

不要把它看作自私-,有人可能会这样简单考虑-,不该把自私等同于不道德。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As I watched the fierce-looking creatures, I failed to hear twenty full-grown Martians coming from behind me.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

Of what? -Alienation. -Alienation as a theme in film? -Yeah.

什么的？，-异化，-异化,电影主题里的异化？-是的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So math -- or,as the British call it,maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

It used to be the case-- I forget how long drive-in windows have been around, certainly as long as you guys can remember-- but there was a time when drive-in windows didn't exist.

曾经是这样的情况,我忘了免下车餐厅已经出现多久了,当然可能自打你们记事时就出现了,但是在免下车餐厅尚未出现的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In the meantime, Trotsky's book is a shot fired across the bow of those forms of "aestheticism"--quote, unquote -which can be understood as self-involved, self-preoccupied, and indifferent to history and class struggle.

同时，托洛斯基的攻击唯美主义,他这样评价，它,唯美主义可以被理解为一种纯粹的自我欣赏，漠视历史和阶级斗争。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选