The theory explains that as the sea floor spreads, the tectonic plates are pushed and pulled in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.

史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

As soon as he has expressed this epic ambition -Virgil explains that as soon as he's expressed this Phoebus Apollo, the god of poetry, stepped in and chided him.

一旦他表达出了这种野心,正如维吉尔写道，诗歌之神阿波罗，闯入诗歌的篇章并指责他。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Doppler effect explains changes in the length of light waves or sound waves as they move toward you or away from you.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

It's an interesting question as to whether he really explains how a child goes from a concrete thinker to an abstract thinker, or how he goes from not having object permanence to understanding object permanence.

问题是,他是否真的解释了,儿童思维是如何从具体向抽象转变的,或是真的解释了,儿童的客体永存性概念是如何从无到有的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Players could sign with any team once their contract expired, as sports economist Andrew Zimbalist explains.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

So, it's not surprising that asset allocation explains more than 100% of returns and that, for the community as a whole, market timing and security selection are costly and lower the community's aggregate investment returns.

因此资产配置能解释100%以上的回报,也不足为奇了,对投资者整体来说,市场时机选择,和证券选择是有代价的,降低了总的投资回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

I mean a blanket term, a guiding concept, a transcendental signified, something that explains the nature of the structure and something also, as Derrida says, which allows for limited free play within the structure; but at the same time the structure has this kind of boundary nature.

是一个概括性称呼，一个引领概念，一个超验所指，它解释了这个结构的内涵，正如德里达所说，它允许在结构内有限的自由游戏;,但同时这个结构也有限性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gomez explains that many Latino immigrant families see mental illness as a moral failure, a problem to be hidden.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He explains his two prison sentences for assault and robbery as errors of youth more than 40 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Bolt jokes around and teases his competitors before races, as 200-meter bronze medalist Wallace Spearmon of the United States explains.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

He explains that businesses such as Nuru Design are examples of what a "green economy" would be like.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

However as Ronald Suny with the University of Chicago explains, the Turkish government has a diametrically opposed view.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

She explains that the strategy did not work as predicted because of what's called a population level effect.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Garza explains that on previous census forms, Latinos could only claim their race as 'white' or 'non-white'.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

As political analyst Jacek Kucharczyk explains, this new approach represents a dramatic shift.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

She explains that she voted for herself as in her words "Lithuania's local political establishment is so boring for people, that they want to see some new faces."

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

More than 200 individuals and organizations were nominated this year, but as Jagland explains, Barack Obama won for giving the world hope for a better future and for striving for a nuclear-free world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

(recording) As one woman in Warsaw explains, politicians and the press have been getting very upset about the missile shield, but ever since Poland joined NATO ordinary Poles have felt much stronger and more secure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

And as the story acknowledges, that's where we'll be," He explains, as Pentagon officials have in the past, that the deployment of major combat or training units always requires the deployment of additional support troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Twenty-two percent of blacks, The fact that almost twice as many blacks don't have health care as whites in part explains why black children are twice as likely to die before their first birthday as white kids.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09