As the pirates spread out searching for hostages, the crew was even able to capture one of the Somalis.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

For a few weeks, I was able to recognize that people weren't looking at me as African American or black.

几周之后，我才发现，人们并非,把我当做黑人看待。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

and then the Transport for London issues them with a license in order to be able to trade as a minicab.

然后，伦敦交通局发给他们一个驾照，以便他们能开微型出租车拉客。

小心微型出租车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now,for this business to work, we must be able to produce a charming widow, with or without the beauty, as advertised."

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Milton was able to think of this new form of church government as the most reasonable form of church government because it seemed to be the product of individual choices.

弥尔顿觉得这种教会政府的新形式,就是最合理的教会政府形式,因为这是个人选择的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And it is not for me to set myself up as the one person able to answer it.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

So, Marsden came up with the model, and as you go through 8.02 and you understand electrostatics and electrodynamics, you'll be able to do this analysis.

后来马斯登提出了这个模型，就像你们通过8。02的考试一样2,你们学过了静电学和电动力学，你也能做这些分析。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Beet seeds can be planted as soon as the soil is able to be worked at the start of the growing season.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Because we've learned about that biology we've been able to make erythropoietin outside the body and use it as a drug.

由于我们已经知道了这种生物学机制,因此我们能体外制造促红细胞生成素,并作为药品应用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The story of how space scientists were able to recover the material and bring it back to Earth is just as exciting.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

And you should know that a 2 s is larger than that, and a 3 s is even larger, and of course, hopefully as we go to 4 and 5, you would be able to guess that those are going to get even larger.

你们要知道２ｓ比这更大一点，３ｓ就更大，当然对于４和５,你们可以猜到,它们就会更大一些。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The World Health Organization and the World Bank say people with disabilities should be able to use the same services as everyone else.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

At the time, they were getting ready for the Olympics in Nagano so we were able to also tie in some information about the Olympics as well.

当时，他们正在,为长野奥运会做准备,因此，我们也讨论了,有关奥运会的话题。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The justices said being able to cross-examine the analysts could help uncover any problems with the testing methods or results used as evidence.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

I want my children to be able to hold their heads high as Americans.

我希望我的孩子,作为美国人，能够昂首挺胸。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

We are able to talk about the fact that two plus one equals three, but it's not as though we ever come across numbers-- number three itself--anywhere in the empirical world.

我们可与去探讨,二加一等于三的这个事实,但是我们不可能有一天真的碰到数字,在现实世界中碰到个叫"数字三"的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This coral is not able to recover from the destruction as well as its staghorn relative.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Men of Athens," he says, "I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I breathe and am able to do so, " I will certainly not stop philosophizing."

他说：，“雅典人，我只会服从神而非你们,只要我还有口气在，我就绝不会停止哲思“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And later,as adults, many are able to hold jobs and lead independent lives.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

There are defense mechanisms, there are biological instincts, neurosis-- and if you understand these very often dark forces, were better able to deal with life: understand as well as improve the quality of life.

还有防卫机制，人类本能论，神经症-,如果你理解这些黑暗势力，就能更好地处理生活：,了解并改善生活质量。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We were able to watch as the puppeteers practiced for this new show.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

It may have to do with the fact that people today don't seem to be as focused on dividends and so that means that companies are more able to reinvest earnings and not pay.

这跟当下人们不再那么,关注股利有关,这意味着公司,可以更多地将收益再投资,而不是支付股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Other plants are not able to do this as well.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

And this exercise of being able to work In these three different modes, economic intuition, graphs, and kind of nerdy high school math is a lot of what we want to get you used to as Economic Majors, just to be able to translate easily between those.

这个练习可以用,三种不同的方法解决,即,经济直觉,图表,和一些讨厌的高中数学,希望经济学专业的同学能掌握这些方法,对于这些方法能够随手拈来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"What has happened this thing has evolved and as we have been able to refine the flow rate estimates."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

You need to do that to be able to control the shield that's as big as that and as heavy as that, because it is made fundamentally of a heavy wood, typically covered by leather, sometimes with some bronze, a bronze sheet across the front of it as well.

如果你想自如操控这块盾牌就必须得这样,这种盾牌很大并且很笨重,因为它主要是由沉重的木材制成,表面一般覆有皮革,或包上铜皮,就是表面上有一层铜皮

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The antibodies that we were able to elicit could neutralize as far back as 1934 and as recently as 2007.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Once again, there is that moment of suspense that the reader is able to get through with a kind of pleasurable excitement and then overcome as the moral is actually revealed.

同样，还存在一刻的悬念,让读者能带着愉悦的兴奋感读完整部作品,接着在寓意揭露之后，悬念结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And as the last link is broken, we might be able to build effectively a bypass.

鉴于最后一个链接遭到破坏，我们可以通过设置旁路有效地建立起这个链接。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选