The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste breaks down into ammonia to be taken up by plants.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

One of them was Bear Stearns so I don't know whether they're still on the list maybe they are maybe they're not; we might be down to nineteen.

其中一家是贝尔斯登，所以我不知道,它是否还在那名单上,也许在，也许不在了；,所以我们也许可以说名单上有十九家。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well, my usual style of programming would be to implement the one that's lowest down in the hierarchy near the bottom.

一般我的编程风格是,先构建等级中最低的东西,也就是靠近地层的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"So when I came out of the Army, I had already decided I wanted to be part of breaking down segregation.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Somebody might be sort of a disorganized librarian and might want to put this one upside down but over here.

有些人可能是一个没有条理的图书管理员,想要把这个颠倒过来,放在这边。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

To be successful, a person in business works hard and tries to get down to brass tacks.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Down he came,very slowly. Soon,both men were busy placing experiments to be left behind on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Part of it is, it takes me an hour and half to settle myself down enough, that I'm actually paying attention and, be more aware of what happening.

每一次，都需要一个半小时,来让我的头脑镇静下来，然后我才能真正地集中注意，感受身边发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It could be me that-- my cabin could burn down and I would freeze to death in the winter.

因为也许中招的会是我-,我的房子可能被烧毁,冬天我可能会被冻死。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because I felt it had to be broken down. I felt it would be broken.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The profits would be high, because there would be no competition to drive down prices.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

So, this means we have the general trends down, so we should be able to look at actual atoms in our periodic table and graph them and see that they match up with our trends.

那么，这表示我们已经知道了大体的规律，现在我们可以来看看周期表中的,原子的实际情况，并把它们画出来,看看是否与我们的规律相符。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Be strong-hearted. Sit down with the banker and have a heart to heart talk.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

But look at the end of the passage that I've just read, a few lines down. The doctrine that the Lady wishes to advance suddenly seems so absolutely not to be a doctrine of married chastity.

但是看一下我刚刚读到的文章结尾，下面的几行，女士希望改进的交教义,突然看上去那么绝对，不再是婚姻贞节的教义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Captain Fox said soldiers and supplies could be sent down to Charleston in ships.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And again, I think these days they tend to down date it by another century or so, so it might be around 1900 B.C.

其实在今天,我认为他们又能把时间再推进,一个世纪左右,即精确到公元前一千九百年左右

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There are tests that can be done to look for Down syndrome during pregnancy.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Gentleman down here, you seem to be moving with the music, which is very good.

下面的男生们,你们和着拍子在下面舞动,这很好

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Next,she went to the shoe department, sat down and waited to be fitted.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

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

After sod is in place, it needs to be pressed down firmly.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

You got to be good at writing down the forces acting on a body.

你得擅长列出物体上的作用力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

said Sinn, "must expect to be shot down like dogs."

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The first statements, either one through four or one through five depending on your counting, but the first group of statements concern Israel's relationship with her suzerain, with God. She's to be exclusively faithful to God. She's not to bow down to any manmade image.

第一部分声明包括前四条还是前五条,取决于你的数法，它是有关,以色列人和她的宗主她的上帝之间的关系的，她应该,把上帝当作唯一的信仰，而不能敬拜任何人造的偶像。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Jennifer Bemisderfer says this involves thinking about a product's whole lifetime: "When those products are at the end of their useful life, how are they going to be broken down?

VOA: special.2010.01.26

In a sense, the core of Hobbes' theory of sovereignty can be boiled down to the statement that the sovereign and only the sovereign is the source of law.

从一定意义上讲,霍布斯对国家权力的核心观点,可以概述为,君主，而且只有君主,是法律效力的唯一源泉。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But I imagine that after a period, there'd be this-- Well, humans have this ability to look down on their experiences, or step back from their experiences, and assess them.

但我想经过一段时间后-,人类有能力审视自己的体验，或从体验中抽身而出加以评估。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选