The Cleveland Clinic says the cause of cluster headaches is in a brain area known as a trigeminal-autonomic reflex pathway.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.

他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And the Pygmalion effect is if I believe you have a certain characteristic this might cause you to behave as if you have that characteristic.

皮格马利翁效应就是说,如果我相信你有某种特点,就可能导致你表现得,好像你真的有这种特点一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Several years later, researchers discovered the exact cause of pellagra: a lack of the B vitamin known as niacin.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Spotted fever in purples for example, which we call measles, was a significant cause of death as was the plague, which we don't have anymore, thank goodness.

拿紫色斑疹热作为例子,我们也把这种病称作麻疹,它是导致死亡的主要原因,就好像瘟疫,而现在不会再这样了,感谢上帝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Anything you see as a problem can cause stress.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."

我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Stuttering's cause has long been a mystery, but it has frequently been diagnosed as a psychological problem.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

We think of force as the cause and a as the result or the effect.

我们把力看做诱因,把 a 看作结果或者效应

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I do not believe we can come to simple conclusions when it comes to the cause and effects of such a complex disorder as autism."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide are thought to be a major cause behind rising temperatures that have lead to extreme weather and food shortages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

President Obama endorsed off-shore drilling as part of a comprehensive strategy, but he has halted new drilling projects until investigators determine the cause of the BP accident.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

Gohel says what no one could have predicted at the time was how Wilson's support for Afghanistan's mujahedeen would encourage Muslims from around the world to rally to their cause or what would come as a result.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11