Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

You will be able to infer from some of our code how in fact you can implement some more sophisticated programs.

你可以从一些代码中推断出,应该要怎样实现一些较复杂的程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

where I can choose the hours I work and be able to attend my daughter's dance recitals

因为当上教授后，我可以选择工作的时间，这样就能参加女儿的独舞表演会了

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Beet seeds can be planted as soon as the soil is able to be worked at the start of the growing season.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

I won't be able to show you what a market does unless I have stocks, but I can look at what an individual stock does without having a market.

我不会在没有股票的时候,就给你讲股市应该是怎么样的，但是我可以在没有股市的情况下,先去看单独的股票。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The doctor also says researchers could be able to limit the number of cells that can form tumors if they limit the number of normal stem cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Would it be better for people to be able to see everyone and maybe not feel like this is a secure environment in which they can share their interests and what they thought and what they care about?

我们可以选择,将用户信息全部公开,但在这样一个网络环境下,分享自己的所见所闻,所感所想,总会让人觉得不可靠？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."

VOA: special.2009.12.22

They'd like to be able to refer to each carbon separately so they can talk about reactions with this molecule, so they number the carbons.

为了在探讨这种大分子的,化学反应时能清楚地,表示每一个碳原子,人们对碳原子进行了编号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It can be contained if the government is able to overcome and restore peace and demonstrate that it is all working very well."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

OK. So we should be able to figure this out for any orbital that we're discussing, and when we can figure out especially radial nodes, we have a good head start on going ahead and thinking about drawing radial probability distributions.

我们可以将这种方法,用于任何轨道，当我们可以算出有多少个径向节点的时候，我们就为画出径向概率分布,开了个好头。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If those compounds can be isolated, maybe someday you'll be able to take an anti-cancer pill, but for us coffee lovers, the answer may just be another refill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

He speaks in a language of math and it is very important for students to be able to have hot copies so that they can take notes on the paper rather than be working very hard to copy down the equations that he used in these lectures.

他以数学语言授课,所以发给学生教学材料,是非常重要的,这样就可在纸上做笔记,而不用拼命,抄下他在课上,用到的等式。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"The measure of success in Afghanistan will be that British forces can come home because Afghan forces are able to deal with the security problems of their country themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But if you need a slave representing your business, and you live in Rome and you need somebody in Ostia, the port city of Rome, to be able to be there and watch your imports and your exports of your business, you need someone who can sign contracts, who can lend money, who can borrow money, who can do things like that.

如果你需要一名奴隶代理你的生意，如果你住在罗马，需要有人，在罗马奥斯蒂亚港口,照看你的进出口生意，就得要能签合同，可以放债贷款，及其他类似事务的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Spectators can get refunds for their canceled tickets or they might even be able to exchange them for tickets to other events, according to Vancouver organizing committee chief John Furlong.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Not only in terms of the economic decisions that they can be make, but also in terms of people are able to throw their ways around in way the constitutions never authorize them to do.

不仅仅限于,他们可能做出的经济决定，还在于,人们可以不按常理出牌,以宪法,不允许的方式做事情。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Paul Phan says if he can make it through the first two quarters of 2010 he might be able to survive through some of the hardest times retailers have ever faced.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Corinth always needs that kind of stuff, so we sell you our wheat, you sell us your pottery, you sell us good wine that we can't grow yet and maybe never will be able to grow in our neighborhood, so on and so forth.

科林斯很需要这些作物,所以我们销售给你们小麦,你们销售陶器,美酒给我们,这些我们暂且无法生产,而且我们周边地区也许永远无法生产这些,诸如此类的作物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"We do not have enough forces right now, between the Afghan security forces, trained and in place, and ISAF to be able to clear out the insurgents and then hold that so that development and reconstruction can occur.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

So in principle, if I measure how much hotter, I can determine how much heat was produced, and from that, I should be able H to calculate delta H at T1.

所以原则上，如果我测量，变热了多少，我就能确定，有多少热被产生,从中我就可以计算T1下的Δ

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Depending on where the assets expected returns are and the assets' standard deviations, we can see that we might be able to do better than--have a lower variance than either asset.

根据资产的预期收益,以及收益的标准差，可以看到我们有更好的选择,这里的方差值比以上两种方案都要低。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So you'll see that you have in front of you a legal release form, you have to be able to sign it, and what that says is that we can use you being shown in class.

你们的面前应该有张授权书,授权书的大概内容是,允许我们把你拍摄进来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And your boss can ask you, "Will you be able to complete these tasks on time?"

你的老板可能会问你，“你能准时交付这些任务吗？”

I think 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Because if you can't find a discussion section that works for you, you won't be able to take this course.

因为如果你不能找到,一个适合你的小组，你就不能选这门课了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what we want to do now is to begin to think about counting measures, and we're going to do this by staying with this piece of Louis Armstrong here, and we need to be able to count measures so that we can figure out the syntax of music.

现在我们想做的,是大家开始想一下怎么数小节,我们通过,路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的这段乐曲,来做这个活动,我们需要能够数好小节才能弄清楚,音乐的句法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If I went on and told you what the different incident light was, and what the electrons were ejected with, and then you could look up the ionization energy for the particular different elements, you should be able to actually determine exactly which element it is, but just with the information given, we can only narrow it down to these choices here.

如果我继续告诉大家入射光源是什么，出射电子的动能是多少，那么你可以去查一查,以上各个元素的电离能，这样你就应该能确定,这个元素到底是哪个，但是只凭题目中的信息，我们只能把范围缩小至以上几种元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So that way you can have an idea if, oh, I do really understand this but I'm a little bit slow, maybe I need to practice this one type of problem a little bit longer so I can get up to speed so I'm going to be able to get through all this in terms of the exam time.

这样你就可以知道，假设，噢，我真的懂这个，但是我的速度有点慢，或许我需要在练习这个类型的题目上,多花一点时间,这样我就可以提高自己的速度,可以全部做完,在考试规定的时间内。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Once you're doing this on your own, -- especially, for example, on exam 2, which is a ways down the road, you won't be able to look at those steps, so you need to make sure that you can go through them without looking at them, but for now we can look at them as we are actually learning how to draw the Lewis structures, and rather just go through them step-by-step, it's more interesting to do it with an example.

每当你要画一个路易斯结构的时候，特别是，比如，在第二次考试中，在不远的将来，你将看不到这张表，因此你需要确保自己在不看这张表,的情况下也能按照上面的流程来画，但是目前我们是可以看着这张表,来学习如何画路易斯结构的，而相比于一步一步地讲，通过例子来演示一下会更有意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, maybe you wanted a really fine pot of the kind you used to be able to walk to the corner and pick up at a pottery shop, but you can't get now, so you would want to buy what the Corinthians sell. Guess what?

所以或许过去在大街的,任意一间陶器店里,你都能找到精致的陶盆,现在却找不着,那么你该选择,科林斯人的哪些商品呢,想想看

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选