They look like they are sleeping. The suggestions they receive may be able to direct their whole mental energy against pain.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Then, I use this sense I have of what the whole must be like to continue to read successive parts--lines, sentences, whatever they may be.

然后，我在对于全文设想的指导下,继续读剩下的部分，行，句，无论它可能是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

and then one day I'll be like, "Oh, I want to dress like a clown today, so I will."

而可能有时候，我想，“喔，今天我想打扮成一个小丑，然后我就这么做了。”

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Charles Wortmann at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says a one-time tillage may be used to correct a problem like aggressive weeds.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

OK, now what we'd like to do is be able to calculate any of these quantities in terms of temperature, pressure, volume properties.

现在我们想要做的是能够利用,温度，压强和体积的性质,计算上面的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

Moreover, your market is bigger, so public companies have an advantage; so companies don't like to be public, generally.

此外,你的市场更大了,因此上市公司是有一定优势的,但一般来说,很多公司不希望上市

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The caterpillars were suspected to be African armyworms -- so named because they look like an army on the march.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

It's not a simple matter. Imagine what it would be like if you had to learn about sixty such things?

绝不是个简单的事,想象一下如果你得学,六十个字母会是什么状况

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Failing to report an injury like this,can be dangerous if a patient,or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The Fantasticks" is about young love, children leaving home and what it is like to be a father.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

But it turns out that on Macs and if you have the right software on PCs, you can kind of get a teaser of what this environment tends to look like and be forewarned, what you're about to see is intentionally very underwhelming.

事实上，它是运行在苹果机上的,如果你在电脑上有正确的软件，可以去看看这个环境大致是怎么样的,提前说下，这个程序不会让你印象深刻,我是故意这样做的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Professor Harkema says there could be a day when Rob Summers and other paraplegics like him will be able to walk again.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

That is we'd like to be able to get pieces of them out. We'd like to be able add them together or concatenate them together.

我们也可以对字符串进行切片,实际上这些都可以,因此字符串也支持选择，切片。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Armstrong began to describe what he saw: "The surface appears to be very, very fine grain,like a powder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

And sovereign is appointed for Hobbes to be much like an umpire in a baseball or a football game, to set the rules of the game.

对霍布斯来说,君主就像是足球或棒球场上的裁判,只有严格执行规则才能使比赛公正地进行。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It can be left at room temperature for up to 12 hours if you like a stronger taste.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

But I can't go back to what it was like in the early days, just like you can't go back to what it was like to be four or three.

但再早之前的事情就记不得了，就像你想不起你三四岁时候的事情一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

He takes it for granted that he is the most rational and systematic of all thinkers and raises questions about since we all take ourselves to be rational too raises questions about just how we know ourselves not to be paranoid delusives like Don Quixote.

他理所当然地认为,自己是所有思想者中最理性，最有条理的,他提出,既然我们也认为自己很理性,我们如何证明自己,不像堂吉诃德一样处于妄想之中呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She considers composers like Ellen Zwilich and Libby Larsen to be mentors who opened up possibilities to her.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

You know, a lot of people like to be in the city, but I grew up in rural environments,

你知道，很多人都想在城市中生活，但我是在村庄里长大的，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

This is something I'd like you to practice, I'd like you to think about, be conscious of, and it's something we can return to.

这是我想让你们练习，并且希望你们多想想，并且小心注意的，这也是我们能够重现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

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

I think it, it's less now than it used to be like, you know, 50 years ago,

不过我想现在比过去少了，我是说，比50年前少了。

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