In two thousand eight Norway opened a so-called doomsday vault designed to be secure from any threat -- even an asteroid strike.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

The fallen angels may be -- okay, they may be violating mother earth, not so great, but look what this violation produces.

这些堕落天使可能没有那么严重地侵略大地母亲，但是看看这侵略带来了什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now the subject matter that he's chosen for this poem, for this so-called first poem, couldn't possibly be more appropriate.

现在他选这首诗的主题很重要，这所谓第一首诗可能不太恰当。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So the fires to make containers from volcanic clay must be hotter than those used for non-volcanic clay.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

- So that brings us back to -- it's a feature that will be disabled by tonight, I'm sure.

所以那个带我们回到-,这个特征在今天晚上会被关闭，我确定。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I curate the Antarctic meteorite collection at the museum, so we have about nineteen thousand six hundred seventy-five to be, you know,really vague."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

People tend to think, because the computer says it's so, it must be so. That the computer is- speaks for God. And therefore it's infallible.

那么一定就是这么回事了,他们认为计算机代表着神一样的存在-,因此是不可能犯错的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Same thing on the labor side. So members of the union might be encouraged to contribute to the PAC -- it's called a P.A.C.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

The highest probability now is going to be along the x-axis, so that means we're going to have a positive wave function every place where x is positive.

概率最高的地方是沿着ｘ轴，这意味着只要在ｘ,大于零的地方波函数都是正的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The most that can be said -- if so much -- is that slaves are property.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So there will be--just I can have artificial hearts, artificial limbs, artificial brains which will get imprinted with the same personality.

我可以装上,人工心脏，人工四肢，人工大脑,在大脑里装入,同样的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She said doing so could be seen as pre-judging cases that the Supreme Court might consider.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

We can call them triads and we'll be talking about what that is before-- so that's one reason: major versus minor.

我们可以统称为三和弦,我们一会儿会说到,好的,这是一个答案,大和弦和小和弦

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It can be any kind of trouble--serious, and not so serious.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

So, there will be a whole -- I'm looking ahead now, projecting into some topics that we'll explore more closely later.

所以对于这一部分,大家先有个印象,我们以后将会更细致的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"If we are going to build something -- how we build it, how we construct it, so that it would be accessible to people of all types of disabilities.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Let's just check. If my pair chooses Alpha, then my choosing Alpha yields 0, Beta -3: so Alpha would be better.

我们来验证下,如果我对手选α,我选α得0,选β得-3,所以选α更好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And then maybe ten minutes later I'll be like 'Oh,well, I need to talk to so-and-so,' and so then I'll go back on it, every thirty minutes or something."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

But then next time it will be a two-hour movie, Citizen Kane so that the course is very compressed.

下次课会是一部两小时的电影，《公民凯恩》,所以上课时间很紧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So I'll--I won't be here Monday but my T.A.'s will handle the exam So, I will see you on Wednesday

我周一就不来了,助教会帮我负责考试,那么,周三再见

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But this lets them be anonymous and not face-to-face, so they feel more comfortable saying those kinds of things.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

So will we be using the internet for video on-demand, will that be the killer app? Will millions of people wide watch this video right when they want to watch it?

所以我们会使用互联网实现随需视频么，那会成为杀手级应用么？会有数百万人,就在他们想看的时候看到视频么？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He says so-called enemy combatants, foreign fighters captured on overseas battlefields, should not be granted the protections of the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Why should doubt about the veridical or truth-affirming possibilities of interpretation be so widespread in the twentieth century?

对确认为真的解读可能性的怀疑,为什么会在20世纪如此普遍？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So the country will be one of the first to get a vaccine - because of existing arrangements with drug companies.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

So Julius Caesar--if you were really going to be important in Rome, you had to serve as a general at some point.

所以恺撒。。。如果你要在罗马出人头地，就得参军成为将领。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I shouldn't have brought you here.I'm so sorry. - What? What are you...- Just be quiet and stand behind me.

VOA: standard.other

It has to be part of a theory, and then trying to adjust it so it can be incorporated, you discover anti-particles.

要想使理论合理,然后试着去调整,使之和实际相符,结果就找到了反粒子

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They provided a service to society and society responded by somehow they got their wealth, so I think that -- So be concrete.

他们为社会提供了服务,作为回报，社会让他们以某种方式变富，所以我认为-,所以具体来说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选