The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And it does have that effect of making you feel like you want this to be in the world.

这个博物馆确实使你产生想让这些野生动物们存在下去的想法。

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But he said the seriousness of corruption and its effect on society could not be ignored.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

So once we cover it, it will then be fair game to ask these photoelectron spectroscopy or these photoelectric effect questions using the wavelength of the electron.

所以一旦我们涉及到它，问及光电子能谱或者,用电子的波长问及,光电效应是一样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I have agreed in principle to a new British force level of 9,500, which will be put into effect once these conditions are met,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

In a way, there's a subset of questions that arises from those, to the effect that this is, of course, what we'll be taking up next time: the question "What is an author?"

从这些大问题中又会产生一些小问题，这些问题也将是我们以后会讨论的：,关于文学的缘由，我们接着又会问，“作者是谁？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the researcher says their effect on cholesterol may be part of the answer.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The very presence in a theatrical piece of a long and weighty philosophical debate like this one could easily be seen as having a pretty tedious effect.

很容易看出这样一个戏剧般长篇,而有分量的哲学争论,有着令人厌倦的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And every senator who goes on record saying that we need to proceed to this monstrosity of a bill, will in effect be voting for higher taxes,higher premiums and cuts in medicare,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We think that there is a need, while we are treating this matter, to examine the effect, or the impact of whatever decision that will be taken on the peace process in eastern Congo."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Three years from now, that is after the next president has had time to enact this program and the program has had some time to begin taking effect will the number of illegal immigrants in the United States be higher, lower or about the same? Ken Judd.

年后，这期间，下届总统有可能制定相关法案,而该法案刚好也已经生效,美国境内的非法移民,是增多，减少还是持平？，肯·贾德你先来。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But it says the broad anti-defamation measures being sought by the Islamic Conference would have the effect of curbing debate about religious issues and should be discarded in favor of outreach and government defense of religious freedom and free speech.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

X I'm passing an X, and yet I'm also assigning the return value to X. So just intuitively what's going to be the effect of this one line of code?

我传一个X，之后我把返回值赋值给,很明显，这一行代码,将会产生什么作用？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

So, we do this here for the photoelectric effect, and in terms of the photoelectric effect, what we know the important point is that the incoming photon has to be equal or greater in energy then the work function of the metal.

所以，我们做这个是为了说明，光电效应，在光电效应方面，我们知道的最重要的事情,就是入射的光子能量必须等于,或者大于金属的功函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"If all the investment now will be done in the city where there are huge needs to reconstruct all the infrastructure, where there will be a lot of demand in terms of construction work, then you will have again a pull effect from the rural areas back into a city that is not ready to absorb a lot more people than they have today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

We know there has to be some effect of the environment shaping language, obviously, because in order to know English you have to have heard English, in order to know Dutch you have had to heard, to--had to have learned and heard Dutch.

我们知道,很明显某些环境作用,塑造了语言,因为要理解英语,你必须听过英语,要理解荷兰语,你必须学过和听过荷兰语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

God is the Dieu cache: God is the hidden God who is absent from the world and is, in effect, also the structure of the world. The same thing can be said of man.

上帝隐藏起来了：,上帝是隐藏于世界之外，同时，又是世界的结构，人类亦如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选