For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So I just want, you know, I feel like that experience would be enriched if I, you know, learned the language.

我始终觉得，如果我会韩语的话，我在韩国的经历会更加丰富。

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Historians also say it is possible that she chose to write to someone like Higginson so she would not be understood.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Then they'll be like, "That's the stupidest idea ever," or "That's somewhat interesting but maybe this and this and this."

之后他们会喜欢它，“这是最傻的想法，“,或是“这很有趣,但可能这样或是那样更好。“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

"It's a passion for the sport, it's like,you can be that rock god for a minute, without playing anything.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And that property could be the volume, like if you have a mercury thermometer , the volume of the mercury.

这种性质可以是体积，如果你有水银温度计,水银的体积。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The idea was that if the public knew what a criminal looked like, it would be harder for that person to hide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Well, all of that might in fact be the goal but it's when you start hearing things like this hopefully that you at least start to grimace a little bit.

这是我们的目标,但实际上当你开始听到这样的事情,你可能开始愁闷苦脸了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But it may be the case that it's something like a situation in which over the course of the previous stanza, Milton has actually usurped the role of the muse and has begun providing something like his own inspiration.

情况也可能是这样的,在之前的那一段里，弥尔顿确实用了缪斯这一角色,并且开始用他自己的一些灵感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I don't know what it takes to replicate that in China, but I certainly hope one day there will be a place in China that looks like Silicon Valley.

无法想象如何在中国复制一个硅谷，但我希望在将来,中国会有类似硅谷的地方。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It is to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge because if human beings obtain knowledge, they will be like the gods,and that is unacceptable.

食用智慧树的果实,如果人类得到智慧,将与诸神无二,这当然是不能接受的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Progress in two thousand two showed that plastic made from feathers could be formed like other plastics.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

So when later on we're dealing with symphonies and things like that you may be sketching little motivic snippets, little rhythmic snippets, that you'll file away.

那么,以后我们面对交响乐,以及类似音乐时,你可以草画一些动机片段,一些节奏片段,以便将来进行整理

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The new study shows that happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional virus - a virus people would be happy to catch.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

You can be--it can be secured easily and it can be made easily in a microwave or things like that, that's all true. Any other ideas, yes?

你可以,垃圾食品保存方便而且,也能直接放在微波炉里或类似的手法烹调,这都是原因,还有其他的原因吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"He thought that testing had its place, but that testing should be more like medical tests.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Most of us would like that to be true.

大多数人希望这是真的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"They just show me how to be better, different techniques of playing and stuff like that."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

.. I guess, unfortunately, it is for... there needs to be a number put somewhere, like, I'm not sure what that number would be, but I do agree that there could possibly be a number put on the human life.

我觉得，不幸的是。,有时确实需要标价，不过我不确定具体数字，但我确实认同,人的生命也许可以被标价。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He refused.Lincoln believed that starting an investigation would be like lighting a barrel of gunpowder.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I kept saying to myself that when at last they found out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So being a micro-organism that got a plasmid that give you resistance to an antibiotic would be a good thing - that gave you resistance to something that naturally killed cells like you in your environment would be a good thing.

假如一个微生物,因含有质粒而具有抗生素抗性,这实在是一桩美事--,在同样的环境下,普通细胞会被杀死,而你们这些具有抗性的细胞却安然无恙,这实在太棒了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It just, you, you sort of realize that people like you can be doing pretty incredible stuff,

你只要意识到像你这样的人可以做出令人难以置信的事情，

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