This is shown in the fact that the most popular baby names are not as popular as they used to be.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So it could be dangerous anywhere in New York. It's not as dangerous as it used to be.

所以，纽约的任何地方都可能有危险。现在没从前那么危险了。

这里不危险 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This evidence can be used by investigators who are working to solve the crime and as proof in a court of law.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

There's also a distant psychological relationship with it because we just aren't as concerned as people used to be about where it came from.

心理上的感觉也变得疏远,我们不像以前的人那样,关心食品源自何方

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Humoral comes from the term humours and it used to be that we thought about disease as being caused by the balance of humours in our blood.

体液一词来源于体液学说,过去认为疾病的产生,与血中的体液平衡有关

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If finer materials are used, such as cut grass, the depth should be two and a half to seven and a half centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

You reach Egypt, and of course, Egypt is one of the great empires of antiquity going back into, perhaps, certainly into the fourth millennium, possibly into the fifth, by no means as powerful as it used to be, far from it.

你来到了埃及的领地,当然,埃及是古代最伟大的帝国之一,它有近四千年,甚至五千年的历史,毫无疑问,古埃及达到了空前绝后的强大

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

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

For example, working women used to be shown mostly as nurses or teachers, because those were the jobs that many held in real life.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

There isn't as much work as there used to be in terms of full-time jobs.

就全职工作而言，没有以前那么多工作岗位了。

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Specifically you'll see that the rationale for observing the Sabbath is different. God's name in Deuteronomy 5 is not to be used in a vain oath as opposed to a false oath. There are differences in the meaning.

你会发现两者对守安息日习俗的论述是特别不同的,《申命记》第五章的描述是，不可以妄称上帝的名,而不是不可以以上帝的名义作假誓，它们表达的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The new prince, as we've seen, must know how to use religion but needs to learn how not to be used by religion, must not become a dupe of the religious.

正如我们所看到的，这种新型君主必须知道,如何去利用宗教而不是被宗教所利用,必须避免成为受宗教愚弄摆布的对象。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But Professor Gaechter says his team's theory was that punishment has only low costs because it needs to be used rarely and works as a threat.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The people weren't quite as friendly as they used to be.

人们不像从前那么友好了。

哥伦比亚的氛围 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Schools could also be used as places to give flu vaccinations.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

And this is now a program that's web based, it's SMS based, it's voice based and it used to be Linux based as you'll see in a couple of weeks and it's just a program thatlet's you click where you are, click where you wanna go and voila, here are the next several shuttles that you can take.

这个程序现在是可以用网络访问的，可以用SMS的，可以用语音访问的,而且它曾经是Linux下的程序,你们几周后就会看到，它是这么一个程序,你可以点击确认你现在的位置,然后点你想要去的位置,然后程序会返回给你你能做的班车。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"The Americans want to distance Damascus from Tehran, plus,the Syrians are lacking in credibility to be used as mediators.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

As we'll talk about later in the class, the biodiversity has shrunk so what used to be hundreds of varieties of corn is now just a few.

像我们后面所要提到的,玉米种群的生物多样性已经从曾经的,几百种减少到了现在的几种

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Manber and her colleagues wanted to find out if the technique could be used to ease depression during pregnancy as well.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

to fight terrorism He said it is time to move on, adding the nation will not be safe as long as national security is used as a wedge to divide America.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

As I'll explain later in class, in Florida there used to be many, many, many varieties of oranges and now there are about four and there are commercials reasons for this occurring.

稍后我会详细解释,在佛罗里达州曾经有很多种类的橙子,而现在那里大概仅剩四种,这一切的发生归咎于商业上的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The number of calories you guys consume as a part of your diet, if you're the average person, is much higher than used to be the case and that has very interesting biological implications that we'll discuss.

从作为饮食一部分的饮料中摄取的热量,就普通人的情况而言,和过去相比要高得多,这包含了一层有趣的生物学含义

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选