The elephant needs to eat for about eighteen hours each day in order for it to grow as large as it does.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Now there's a political and business history to this because KFC, as large a company as it is, is owned by a larger parent company, believe it or not, called Yum Brands.

这是它的行政和商业历史,因为像肯德基这样庞大的公司,为一个更为庞大的母公司所有,信不信由你,这个母公司叫做百胜餐饮集团

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But Brooklyn, the spaces are twice as large, and the rent is half the price.

但在布鲁克林，空间是那里的两倍大，而租金却是那里的一半。

在布鲁克林的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was large enough for me to use one of the rooms as my laboratory.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the law excludes small farmers and processors from the same rules as large producers.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

Julius Caesar capitalized on his role as a general of a large army that was at the time winning battles in Gaul, modern France.

恺撒利用他的将领身份，他的军队,当时在高卢，现代法国，赢得了战争。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"The fact that unemployment has remained so high does suggest that the stimulus has not had as large an impact as the administration claims."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Like we talked about with insulin; make large quantities of this recombinant viral protein, and use that as a vaccine.

就像我们讲过的胰岛素,生成大量重组的病毒蛋白,并将其作为疫苗使用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You can walk among the large rocks known as Bear Rocks and pick blueberries and huckleberries from low-growing bushes.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The main sacrificial altar with a large ramp stood in that courtyard as well as a basin that was there for ablutions.

庭院里有一个大祭坛和一个坡道,以及一个用于沐浴的水池。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

As the population of the North had grown large,he noted, that part of the country had seized political and economic control.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But they lost a large part of their emotional capacity and as a result, their rationality failed.

但是他们失去了大部分情感能力,结果，他们失去了理性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Every year,moist air masses known as monsoon produce large amounts of rainfall in India,East Asia, northern Australia and East Africa.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

We, by and large, tend to accept the picture of Socrates as a victim of injustice.

我们整体看来，倾向于接受苏格拉底,受不公迫害的说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

You can take a problem that might be relatively intuitive to solve but when you scale this thing up as is increasingly the case in the web, in large data systems, and so forth, you actually have to now think smart, you actually have to think efficiently and you have to solve this problem effectively.

你可以把一个问题用比较直观的方法解决,但如果你把此类问题的数量增大,正如越来越多的互联网，和大规模数据系统中出现的问题等等,你应该考虑怎样才能更简便，怎样才能更高效,你应该用行之有效的方法处理问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The large subduction zone earthquakes are responsible for most of the ocean-wide tsunamis, such as the recent tsunami in Japan.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

The English Revolution came about, in large part, because of King Charles' attempt to impose an alien religious conformity, as well as tighter political control on his kingdom.

接下来就是英国革命爆发,这主要是因为,查尔斯国王的努力,他施行异教统一制,同时在国内施行更加严厉的政治统治

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was a travelling show of animals and people working under a large tent, later known as the Big Top.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Pittsburgh was closer to cities on the Atlantic coast with large black populations, cities such as New York, Washington,D.C.and Baltimore.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

The ones that get talked about the most in terms of health, the one is sodium of course, because salt intake but the others are important for health as well and in some cases they're being consumed in large amounts and some in small amounts.

提到最多的和健康相关的矿物质,当然就是钠了,因为人每天都吃盐,但其它元素对健康也同样重要,某些情况下,矿物质的消耗量会很大,而在另一些情况下则很小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I could see a thousand stars. As I stood there I turned my eyes to a large red star.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

but as far as I understand it, they, a large share of their operating budget goes to advertising,

但是照我的理解，它们，很大一部分经营预算都给了广告，

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Officials believe there are as many as one hundred fifty thousand of these large snakes in the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

And you might every once in a while get this, at least as we've done it in this case, this large move out at the end.

一旦你得到了这个结果，至少像是我们在这个例子中得到的结果，最后有一个很大的唯一变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For, as Rutherford has shown the assumption of the existence of nuclei, as those in question seems to be necessary in order to account for the results of the experiments on large angle scattering of the alpha rays.

因此卢瑟福,提出了原子核存在的假设，这些关于问题的假设对于,解释阿尔法粒子的,大角度散射是有必要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选