As the last speakers of a language die off, the valuable information contained within a language also disappears.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

They had a number of partnerships that they put on as off balance sheet.

安然有众多的关联方公司,营运着表外业务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You blame yourself as a victim of trauma for not having the sufficient vigilance in your outer cortex to ward it off.

你会因为你的脑皮层,不能有效保护你不受创伤危害,而成为创伤受害者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

We can actually see spatially all the details in the field animated as you turn the current on and off.

我们能看到,所有细节的空间动画分布,就在你打开电流和切断的时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Now,as in those far-off Civil War days, getting information by the grapevine remains something of a game.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

So, as I said, we're finishing up with what we left off with yesterday - or excuse me, on Wednesday.

就像我说过的，我们现在要把昨天,不好意思，是周三没讲完的部分讲完。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The scientists estimate this would have the same climate effect as taking all cars in the world off the road for ten years.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

They're derived from a precursor called triacylglyceride, which is as glycerol molecule with three fatty acid chains dangling off of it.

它们来源于一种叫三酰甘油的前体,由甘油分子上连接了,三个脂肪酸链构成

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The train was slowing down as it came into the town of La Crosse where the three soldiers would get off the train.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But dualism doesn't so much offer the explanation typically as just say, "Well, maybe we'd be better off positing something immaterial."

但是二元论还没有给出,这样的解释,也许我们假设非物质的存在会好一些

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It gets popped off the stack as one says and so you know what the values actually as we've hinted at with our brief discussions of forensics they're actually still there.

它从堆中释放了,那些值是什么，就像我们讨论的辩论练习,所暗示的,我们还在那里。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We send these robots off as our little planetary emissaries to go and do the science.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

OK, so as I said, now I can go off and I could create a different class.

好，正如我所说，现在我可以进行下去,去创建一个不同的类了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The expression, dealing off the bottom, now means cheating in business, as well as in cards.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

But then,he started teaching some doctrines that struck other Christians in Rome as being a little bit off.

但是接下来他开始传教一些,让其他罗马基督教徒觉得荒诞的教义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

His dull,blind eyes saw the end again as they had in the far off past.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Yeats is throwing off his early work as if throwing off a kind of costume.

叶芝抛弃了他的早期作品,就像抛弃一件外套一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And you can amuse yourself as you're driving along, saying, "Well, that guy from Chateauroux is off to visit his cousin in Besancon."

假设你自己正一个人开车行驶,这个来自沙特路的人要去探望在贝桑松的表兄

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Some educators and parents do not like the idea of sending students as young as sixteen off to college, before they may be socially ready.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The iniquity of his lips must be burned off by a live angelic coal, that the sinfulness of his lips we could think of it as the sinfulness of his voice, his poetic voice -- will have to be purged.

他邪恶的嘴唇必定会被天国燃烧的煤块烧掉，他的嘴唇的罪孽,我们可以认为是他所说的话的罪孽，他的诗句必将被净化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Ancient cultures broke off pieces of obsidian to make knives and weapons such as arrows.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

But as the foreign slave trade was cut off the domestic American slave trade absolutely boomed.

但当海外奴隶贸易被终止之后,美国国内的奴隶交易反而蓬勃发展起来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

However,the people of other Keys say the fishing is just as good off their islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

And, in particular, I want to lead off the class with an idea that the Nobel Prize winning biologist, Francis Crick, described as "The Astonishing Hypothesis."

我想先提到一种观点,这种观点的提出者是位诺贝尔奖得主,生物学家,弗兰西斯·克里克,他将这种观点称为"惊人的假说"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We've lit candles, we've turned off the lights, everyone is sitting in darkness except for the lights of their candles as the final reading is read.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

At infinity, there's no stored potential energy, and it drops off more and more negative as one over R.

在无限远处，没有储存的势能，并且它向负方向减少，当距离超过R时。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Well, he says because in the long run, if we do justice and if we respect rights, society as a whole will be better off in the long run.

他说，因为从长远看，如果我们秉持公正，尊重权利，社会整体会发展得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选