They found that the bathroom showerheads people use to wash up may be covering us with more than water.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

So, the active part of the thermometer could be water. It could be alcohol, mercury, it could be a piece of metal.

那么温度计的工作部分,可以是水可以是酒精，水银，可以是一块金属。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Of course you will notice some of the continents are painted incorrect, 'cause when they got paint in their hands, they start painting areas that should be water lands or lands that ended up to be water.

你肯定会发现,有些大陆画得不够准确，因为他们拿起刷子后，就会把,海洋画成陆地,而把陆地画成海洋。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In many areas of fast-flowing water, a boat could be turned over by a wave as high as a house.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

And, even Cavendish, one of the things that he observed was that hydrogen could be combusted to produce water vapor.

甚至卡文迪许都观察到了,氢气燃烧,会产生水蒸气。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The money will be used to meet emergency needs, such as water,food and shelter for homeless people in Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

And that was the water at the bottom of the waterfall is probably going to be hotter than the water at the top of the waterfall.

瀑布底部的水,或许比顶部,的水更热。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks without knowing anything about the stock market.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Hormones can be proteins, endocrine hormones can be proteins, meaning they're large molecules that are usually fairly water soluble, or they can be steroids.

激素可以是蛋白,内分泌激素可以是蛋白,这意味着激素是大分子,并且通常是水溶性的,激素也可以是类固醇

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If you suspect that seeds may be diseased, place them in water at fifty degrees Celsius for twenty minutes.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Typically, a mountain range will be the boundary between the area of two poleis or a stretch of water, because Greece has the sea winding through it everywhere.

比如,一座山脉,就能成为一种典型的城邦之间边界,由于希腊四处邻海,一段水域也可以成为边界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This can be anything from walking or running against the resistance of water, to doing jumping jacks in the water.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

And that's all that's big enough to pass through or small enough to pass through. And if we go up even just one row on the periodic table to potassium, what we actually see is now that it's going to be too large, and, in fact, a potassium solvated with one water molecule won't go through our channel.

就是这样刚好大到它通过,或者说刚好小到它通过,即使我们再沿着周期表往下走仅仅一行到钾离子，我们看到的就将是它的个头太大了，实际上，溶解于一个水分子的单个钾离子,不能穿过我们的通道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Yogurt can be made with milk from cows or from other animals including goats, sheep, water buffalo and camels.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

We shouldn't, just because there are biases and mistakes that potentially can be made, it doesn't mean we need to throw out the baby with the bath water and stop studying ourselves.

我们不应该，只是因为会有潜在的偏颇和错误，这并不意味着我们要因噎废食,停止探究自己。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

If we think about the drinks industry more generally here, rather than just beer, this would be Guinness, this would be Poland Spring, This is water and everything else would be in between here.

如果我们把啤酒业想得更普遍点,不仅仅只有啤酒,这可能是吉尼斯,这可能是波兰泉水,这是水而其他的产品分布在中间

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If that is the case, it may be possible that the moon could hold enough water for future explorations or even colonies.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

A kilocalorie, and this is really what we--when people talk about calories, how many calories in food, it's really kilocalories that they're referring to, but that would be the energy required to raise a kilogram of water one degree centigrade.

一千卡,是人们讨论卡路时是真正用的单位,当提起食物中的热量,人们指的是多少千卡,一千卡,是将一千克水提升1℃所需要的热量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mister Schroeder believes the enzymes could be changed in some plants to increase their ability to store water.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Engineers thought the new nuclear submarine would be able to stay under water for two weeks or more.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.

好，如果我选猜想数为0，好吧,这个点的切线甚至和x轴都没交点,所以在这儿这一原则,真的不起作用了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea that water that has fallen over a dam cannot be brought back again.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

So a closed system would be, for instance, a glass of ice water with an ice cube in it, with the lid on top.

因此闭系可以是，比如说，一杯放了,一个冰块的冰水，顶上加了盖子。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They believed a better way to the railroad could be found, with plenty of grass and water.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

It could be a glass of water with ice in it.

它可以是一杯有冰块的水。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and how much water is needed for crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

And if I do that then I can find out the change in enthalpy of this reaction. It's just going to be the heat of formation of these three moles of water, minus the heat of formation of the iron oxide. OK.

我就能得到这个,反应的焓的变化,它就是三摩尔水,的生成热，减去氧化铁的,生成热，好。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选