It is not always clear that eating something as harmless as wheat can be bad for a person's health.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

So even if immortality would be bad, there would be certain things you could do that could end it.

所以即使不朽是不好的，你也能做某些事去结束它。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

you know, it's just that I don't have to be a millionaire, although that wouldn't be bad.

你知道，我不是非要当百万富翁不可，虽然那样也不错。

阳光总在风雨后 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And we will tell how spending months in space could be bad for your health.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

while plainly we can understand it simply to mean preconception which is inescapable nevertheless can still be bad.

尽管我们知道它的意思是,不可避免的先入为主的看法,可能是不好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That would be bad business. We could not leave them to themselves.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

To sort of give you a quick taste, if after my death I won't exist, how could anything be bad for me?

让你们先来体会一下，如果在我死后，我不存在了，对我来说怎么会有坏事情？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I don't think he really means to be bad," he said.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

There may be bad reasons but there's no wrong answers.

有不充分的理由,但没有错误的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They could also be bad for people's health, the World Health Organization said Friday.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

I think I would be fired as soon as people found out what it was that I was doing with the portfolio and, overwhelmingly more important, it would be bad for the University.

一旦人们发现我搞这样的投资,我肯定会被炒鱿鱼,更严重的是,这对学校不利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Unless money comes in from somewhere, the situation will be bad."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

More importantly, the Homeric heroes are said to be bad role models for those who follow them, they are shown to be intemperate in sex, into these vices Socrates adds cruelty and disregard for the dead bodies of one's opponents.

最重要的是，荷马英雄们被说成是坏榜样,对他们的追随者而言，他们都太过纵欲、,还有被苏格拉底冠以残忍,与漠视对手尸体的恶行。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Things cannot be as bad as they seem." He stood over the body of his wife in the disappearing light.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

First of all, most people believe that their cholesterol level in their body is determined by how much cholesterol they actually consume, so foods high in cholesterol would be bad in that sense and foods low in cholesterol would be good.

首先,大多数人以为体内的胆固醇含量,取决于胆固醇的实际摄入量,由此看来高胆固醇的食物确实对身体无益,而低胆固醇食物则是有益的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This time, with the economy in a bad recession, some guests may not be as wealthy as they were.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

PROFESSOR: So we have a hypothesis that the answer should be 29. Ooh. That's bad.

教授：现在我们有人提议是29了,哦，很糟糕。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They want to be ready in case of more bad news from economies like Greece,Portugal and Spain.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some people are pessimists: they always think about how bad things are or will be.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Weird things, bad things can happen and so one of the lessons too that will be repeated throughout the course is to actually rigorously error check and make sure that you're always thinking about your user being a bad guy.

各种古怪的事情就会蜂拥而至,所以在这个课程中我反复强调,要一丝不苟地检查错误,你就当你的用户是个调皮捣蛋的家伙。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

As bad as those chemicals are, nicotine may be the most threatening of them all.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Is it part of your nature to be good or bad or is it largely due to the situation that you fall in?

人性究竟是善还是恶,或者说是否应当更多地归因于所处的环境

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

However,sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Now, it's going to be captured on tape and that's going to be really bad for my reputation, so spread yourself around other people.

咱们这次是要录像的,那样的话我的名声就毁了,所以尽量分散开来

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It also causes bad side effects, some of which can be deadly.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.

而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The results of bad credit can be serious.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

I think it's kinda...you do it to both but right now, tax increase in 2011, 2012, 2013, etc. as what's on the books would be very bad for the economy.

双管齐下当然不太现实,但目前来看，要是从2011年开始，按照经济理论，而一直往后增税的话,对经济可谓百害而无一利。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

That would be a bad design for our nervous system where we want to use cells over and over again, so they're able to recover from this change in potential.

这样的神经系统设计可不怎么样,我们想要能重复使用的神经细胞,所以它们具有从电势变化中恢复的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选