Former President George W.Bush presented Benjamin Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Whereas, 27% of whites are reading at a low level, 22% of Asian-Pacific kids are reading at low level.

也处于低水平，然而，27%的白人孩子阅读能力很差，而22%亚太地区的孩子阅读能力很差。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

and I live with this very nice girl, my roommate who writes plays for a living and works at a theater.

我和一个女孩一起住，她人很好，在剧院工作，靠写戏剧为生，

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At a dinner party at his friends' house, a young woman asked him if he would be sailing home soon.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

In other words, if we don't have to worry about entropy or volume equilibrium is achieved when energy is at a minimum.

换句话说，如果我们不担心熵,和体积的平衡,那么能量就得是最小的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Many students save money by starting their education at a two-year public college, also known as a community college.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Most of these men had stayed at a house One by one,in the days following Lincoln's death, these people were arrested.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

So, we can actually kind of visualize what we would see if we were looking at a photoelectron spectrum.

实际上,我们可以在一定程度上想象出,我们在光电子谱上可以看到什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The new findings were presented this week in San Antonio,Texas, at a meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Through this process he becomes addicted to alcohol at a very young age, but at the same time he learns something about language.

因此，他在培养出酒瘾的同时，练就了驾驭语言的一些能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When it is cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and take the shape of the clay form.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

It's this extraordinary insight that he gives us: we can only read one word at a time, we can only read one line at a time.

这是他告诉我们的非凡的洞察：,我们一次只能读一个词，或是一行。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

On Wednesday, Mister Obama marked his one hundredth day by speaking at a school in the state of Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

But how is it then to meet someone at a different religion and different political persuasion, and yet still be able to be kind to one another.

那你们遇见来自不同宗教,不同政治倾向性的人是什么感受，而且你们仍然可以彼此成为朋友。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

When the charge is applied, if the upper plate is negative, we would expect that the negative droplet would be repelled at a rate exceeding the gravitational fall.

当电荷起作用时，如果上边的板子是负电的，我们可以期待负电的液滴会,超过重力下降速度的速度被排斥。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Senators are expected to question her about a comment she made at a law school in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

So, here was a royal tomb closed forever and yet built at a fantastic expense and enormous kind of labor.

由此可见,这里曾是一个以惊人的财富,和巨大的劳动力建成的封存的皇家墓穴

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

When you look at a food label like this, first it shows you the number of servings on containers.

这是一个食品标签的样例,首先可以了解到整个包装内所含食物份数

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That title became official at a recent ceremony in New York for the opening of an exhibition called "Welcome to Gulu."

VOA: special.2009.06.01

I will tell you that a good programmer, at least in my mind, may actually go back and modify the pseudo code as they realize they're missing things, but it's easier to do that when you're looking at a simple set of steps, than when you're in the middle of a pile of code.

至少我认为是这样的，如果他们发现遗漏了,一些步骤的话会,回过头去修改伪代码,但这当你面对一些大致的步骤时,这个过程就会比,面对一堆代码要简单的多。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players, at a cost to the punisher.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

And Piaget's claim was one reason why they're surprised at peek-a-boo is you go-- you look at a kid, the kid's smiling and go, "Oh, peek-a-boo," and you close--and you cover your face and the kid says, "He's gone."

皮亚杰认为,他们对捉迷藏感到惊奇的一个原因便是,你凭空消失了,你看着婴儿,婴儿会对你笑,然后你和他玩捉迷藏,"躲猫猫",你用双手遮住了你的脸,婴儿会以为,"他不见了"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Then much later on, when we looked at some more complicated payoffs and a more complicated game, we looked at a different lesson which was this: put yourself in others' shoes to try and figure out what they're going to do.

在这之后我们通过研究更复杂的收益,以及更复杂的博弈,我们得出了另外一个结论,站在别人的立场去思考,他们会怎么做

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Jill Wiseman of Austin,Texas, left her job at a high-tech company four years ago to do beading full time.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The cell that's producing the signal produces enough of the molecule so that it enters the bloodstream, it circulates throughout your body, eventually it reaches a cell at a great distance, which has a receptor for that ligand and the signal gets received.

发出信号的细胞产生信号分子,数量十分充足 能够进入到血液中,信号随着血液流遍全身,最终到达较远处的细胞,在这些细胞上有与配体配对的受体,信号被细胞接收

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's not, it's certainly not as strong as in many other countries if you look at a lot of European countries.

这当然赶不上很多国家，如果你看看许多欧洲国家的话。

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