One is based on Scrabble, the board game where players try to form words from letters with different point values.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The soul, we now say, based on the argument from recollection, the soul is one of our prior parts.

我们现在讲灵魂,在源于记忆的论证的基础上，灵魂是我们之前的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

BP is the British-based energy company that operated the well and leased the Deepwater Horizon from the rig's owner,Transocean.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

The kinds of authority established by the bogeys of tradition and custom and conservative tradition are not always distinguishable from the kinds of authority that are based on genuine strength.

由约定俗成的习俗的幻象以及,保守的传统建立的权威,和建立在真实力量上权威难以分辨。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

DeMille's epic movies were based on the settling of the American West, Roman history or stories from the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

They developed a score based on the results from these various studies on how carefully the subjects in these studies adhered to the Mediterranean Diet.

该研究将这些不同研究中的受测者,按其对地中海式饮食的遵循程度予以评分

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 then she and several others from the institute decided to create their own way to support community-based science education.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

Blanc said the ideal society is based on the principle of, and now I quote, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

勃朗说理想国,应建立在这样的原则上，以下由我引用，各尽所能，按需分配“

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bars insurance companies from rejecting people based on genetic test results.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

And one of the things i said from day one is that our entire work has to be based on the best science we can master for the American people.

从一开始工作我就反复强调,我们所有的工作都建立在,为了美国人民所掌握的,最先进的科学知识之上。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

This was mainly from selling ads aimed at users based on what they post on Facebook.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

So, it makes a binary decision, either I create an action potential or I don't, but that decision could be based on many inputs, not just on input from one cell.

所以 这里产生一个二选一的决策,就是产生动作电位亦或不产生,不过这个决定可能是,根据很多输入信号做出的,而不是仅凭单个细胞所传来的信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The word "ballet" comes from the French language, and is based on the Italian word "balletto."

VOA: special.2011.01.26

He's claiming only that it is available and can be adduced from what we call "evidence" in the same way that the symbolic interpretation, based on the rhetorical question, is available and can be adduced from evidence -and that these two viewpoints are irreducible.

他只是声称这是一种可能，而且可以从,我们所说的“证据“之中引证得到,同样的，基于修辞型问句之上的象征性诠释，也是一种可能，也能够引证,而且，这两种观点是不可削减的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Scientists say extensive observations from earth-based telescopes are needed to confirm the existence of the planets.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Socrates says, "No. On the contrary, we do have reason, based on the argument from recollection, to conclude that the soul was around before we were born."

苏格拉底说,不对,恰恰相反,基于回忆论,我们有理由去说,灵魂存在于我们出生之前

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Most of the charges were based on Johnson's removal from office of his secretary of war.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Then going from a plant based diet to a diet that included meat.

人类的饮食由植食性发展为含肉类的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mostly they gather dust. But a project based in Washington is putting unwanted bikes from the United States to good use in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Now, bracket the fact that, as I just explained, I don't myself find the argument from recollection persuasive. I don't think we got any good reason to believe based on the sort of things Plato draws our attention to.

我刚刚解释了，我并不觉得源于记忆的论证,有说服力,在柏拉图让我们注意的,这些观点的基础上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He points out that traditional flowerpots made from petroleum-based plastics can last much longer.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

They start running ads. This is what they always do" But some objections are based on cost estimates from an independent agency, the Congressional Budget Office.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The law bars police from detaining anyone based on ethnic or racial appearance.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

Nienke Beintema from the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute led the study.

VOA: special.2011.05.03

The request is based on a law from eighteen fifty-one.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

What we're trying to do here is to change the system in the United States from one that is based on the time that is spent in the seat to one that is based on your actual accomplishments."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Russia,according to Mr.Medvedev, must move from an economy based on natural resources to innovation and high tech, which will require democratization.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12