It is not always clear that eating something as harmless as wheat can be bad for a person's health.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Although pro-slavery writers will become deeply contemptuous of Natural Law of Natural Law doctrine as it can be applied to the possibilities of man.

虽然亲奴制的作家,会非常蔑视自然法和及其规律法则,因为它能激发人类的潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It's really nice, as you can tell, to be at a school in such a great location.

所以，学校能够在这么好的一个位置是很值得高兴的。

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Enriched uranium can be used as fuel for nuclear energy as Iran says or it can be used for nuclear bombs.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Book publication can be just as interesting and it can tell us just as much about modern poetry as magazines.

图书出版是很有意思的，而且也能像杂志本身那样,告诉我们很多关于现代诗歌的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is really just a look at alcohol, how it affects students, how it can be a detriment to their progression as a student."

VOA: special.2011.07.29

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

To save lives, a tsunami must be recognized as such before it can reach land.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

That can be supplied by an antagonist called Aldopa - which is not exactly the same as dopamine, it's slightly different.

这种物质能够由一种拮抗剂,叫做阿多巴转化而来,但它与多巴胺的结构并不完全相同,有一点差别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It can be used for two- way communication, such as between a ship and land.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Now, this is a fair effort. It is about as wrong as anything can be wrong in any possible way.

作者很努力才作出这个猜想,但这个猜想错得一塌糊涂。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So it can be seen as having no harmful effects on the environment.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

And henceforth I'm gonna start calling these tools, these monickers that I can use as building blocks in my own program, it's gonna be called a function as we'll see.

从此以后，我将在我的程序里把这些工具，称为我们可以用来写代码的组件,在我自己的程序中，我们将了解到它被叫做为一个函数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It occurs as a result of something underlying which can be potentially serious."

VOA: special.2009.09.02

But not yet seeing how to explain it is not the same thing as seeing that it can't be explained on physicalist terms.

但是不知道,怎么解释并不等于,不能用物理主义解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or it can be made from manufactured materials such as nylon,acrylic and polyester.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Compost differs from mulch but it can be used as mulch.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Well, you can go to Treasury Direct as an individual and buy a Treasury bill, but it may not be the best place to buy.

可以用个人身份,在"国库指南"上购买短期国库券,但是那里并不是最好的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And if they do, it can be very expensive. So we see unused space as a great place to grow food that will make it more accessible for people."

VOA: special.2010.07.06

So the ensuing debate within the dialogue can be read as a struggle again over ? who has title to rule. Is it the people?

所以，接着发生在辩证中的辩论,便可解读为再度陷于,谁有权统治的挣扎之中，是人民吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time,through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

You are saying that's one of the things that would've been better if... And making it permanent. -Right And that's the very good sort of bang for buck, permanent tax change So you both view this actually as a missed opportunity, at best really, right? -Yeah It's the best it can be said for. Alright.

你的意思是，有些事原本可以做得更好,这个是其中之一，对吗。,关键在于任何措施都必须是长期的，-没错,恒定的税率改制，绝对划算,这么说，你们两位都认为,这充其量只是错失良机而已，对吗，-没错,也只能这么说说了，是吧。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

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