The flowers can be big, up to almost thirteen centimeters across.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

They're pretty impressive looking. But they would be big, but still that would be a lot easier to transport and handle than a whole box or closet full of scrolls.

看起来觉得不可思议，它们虽然很厚，但它们仍然比较容易携带使用,相对于装满卷轴的箱子或书橱来说。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I would love to be in a big, big network and have my own show with a big network.

我很想进入一个很大很大的领域，在圈内有自己的演出。

阳光总在风雨后 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

DeMille's movies were known to be big productions.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Because he thought that would be big enough that in Denmark, the temperature wouldn't go below zero.

因为他觉得这个数字,对于丹麦来说够大了，气温不会低到零度以下。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But for people who have a difficult time controlling their movements, this little navigational issue can be a really big problem.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

Now Microsoft is sort of a funny place, we've got these big businesses but in the software business big businesses need to be constantly recreated.

现今的微软是非常有意思的地方，我们运行着庞大的生意，但是在软件交易上,大宗交易更像是消遣。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

She says the amount of space needed between the plants depends on how big you expect the heads to be.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And so we adjust our minds to accommodate -because presumably we weren't imagining Satan to be that big -to accommodate this sense of Satan's tremendous physical magnitude.

我们调整了自己的思维来适应这个,-因为我们之前并未设想他的长矛有那么大,-来适应撒旦如此高大的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I mean the crowd seems to be into it. Even just people at the bar are cheering for big shots."

VOA: special.2010.06.25

It will be a big quote from India in terms of buying arms from the US and more from western markets.

印度通过向美国购买武器,或者向西方市场购买更多武器,来增进印美关系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Because of the open-air stage, actors had to shout very loudly and make big motions to be heard and seen by all.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Using the material you've learned in class, you'll be expected to answer some big questions for an 8-page final paper that you'll turn in at a date to be assigned.

运用你在课堂上学到的材料，在8页论文中回答某些大问题,然后准时交给我。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A big wheel may be the head of a company, a political leader, a famous movie star.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

A big problem with this is a lot of Freudian theory is claimed to be validated in the course of psychoanalysis.

这里存在的一个大问题便是,精神分析理论中的很多内容,被认为是能够在精神分析的过程中,得到证实的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Even a small reduction in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

They eliminate--the one privilege above all that the big guys want to get rid of is the right to not be taxed.

他们首先废止的,就是资本家试图逃税的特权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A big part of her job will be to look for ways to cut government waste.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

Now, I'm not sure what kind of video we're talking about, and I'm not sure if the lecture will be the internet when we're all done. But nonetheless I'm gonna call this the next big thing-the video internet .

呃，我不确定我们要谈关于什么样的视频,我也不确定当这个讲座全部结束时,还是不是关于网络，但尽管如此,我还是要叫它为下一重大事件，网络视频。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The Andromeda Galaxy is big enough and near enough to be seen by the unaided eye in the star group Andromeda on a dark night.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Because nutrition is going to be one of the big problems of your generation; how to have enough nutritious food for the population as it grows.

因为营养,对你们这一代人是个大问题,怎样才能确保食物的质和量,能够满足日益增长人口的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Wireless telephones could be a big part of the electronics industry's return to growth.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

So what? Why would that be a big deal?

所以呢？为什么这会如此重要？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

My parents always tell me that I loved Big Bird." No program about "Sesame Street" would be complete without presenting some of its most famous songs.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

It used to be that you had to big thick course packets that cost a lot of money, but now everything thankfully is available electronically on the course website.

过去你们总是,有厚厚的一打昂贵的资料,好在现在所资料都是电子版的,能在课程网站上得到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In other words,if one number is big, the other number will be small.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Somebody's up there going and it's actually the bass so we'll be wanting to zero in on the bass in a big way in music because that's oftentimes giving us much more information than the melody.

有些人在那唱,事实上那是低音,所以我们在音乐中,主要将注意力集中到低音上,因为大多数情况下,相比旋律而言,低音给我们的信息更多

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

I'm just going to be paying back my debts and go bankrupt, so I'll take a big gamble and then at least I have a one in three chance of making money.

那样我就会因为要还债而破产,所以我要赌一把,至少有三分之一的机会能赢钱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It depends on n and k but obviously as n gets big, that one is going to be better.

但是很明显，当n取很大的值的时候,前者要比后者好。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选