"The thing about clay is every culture knows clay, because they use it.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In this case, it's cutting up from the bottom end, which makes sense because the thing I'm looking for is always bigger than the midpoint and then, I don't know, let's pick something in between. Somebody want-- ah, I keep doing that-- somebody like to give me a number?

排除元素，这是讲得通的，因为我总是找比中点大的元素,那让我们挑一个同,中点之间的元素吧,我再来试试，谁给我个数字吧,我知道你们想给我些其他东西？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

and, so I think that's a great thing because that's like I was saying, like the location, like the beach.

我觉得这一点很好，因为我想说，地理位置、像海滩，

加州的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The sad thing is that the majority of people that are killed by malaria are children because there immune system is not strong enough to ward off this infection."

VOA: special.2009.12.22

But also, I think, embodied because it is specifically a thing of the body and involves an experience of the body, as much as, or more than, the mind.

同时我认为表现是因为,那是身体具体的部分，包括,身体和心灵的一种体验。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You've hit on the very idea. I wanted to spend the money on one thing, because I have to turn in a report for it, and I hate itemizing."

VOA: special.2011.08.13

Well, we're talking about a pretty high number here, so to make counting easier, we'll just say 10 lone pairs, because 20 lone pair electrons is the same thing as 10 lone pairs.

好吧，我们这里讨论的是一个挺大的数，为了数起来更容易，我们就说有十对孤对电子，因为二十个跟十对是一个意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"You are doing the right thing because the American people understand that too big to fail is the right size to regulate,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

But now, because my elements are going to take different amounts of memory, I'm going to do the following thing.

因为我们的元素大小不等,我们要这么做，在第一个点。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

(SAYING) He says it was the right thing to do because there simply was no other choice.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

He probably felt that nobody around was doing any work, because all the thing was given to this one person.

他或许会觉得周围的人都在尸位素餐,因为所有的问题都留给了他一个人

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Because of the public's need for transparency, because of the public's demand for a full accounting, these investigations, they are a good thing,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

And, that's a good thing to know because if you come out with an answer that's somewhere near the diameter of the universe and it's supposed to be the diameter of an atom, then you will know that you probably made a mistake.

这是我们需要知道的,因为当你做一道题得到的答案,是宇宙的直径,而正确答案是原子直径时，你能很快发现你的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"The reason I do a lot of animals is because I'm inspired by the real thing."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

The first thing they said was, "You have no board of directors," because I was the board. I was the whole board.

他们首先提出的是，你们没有董事会“,因为我就是董事会，董事会里就我一个人。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

(Speaking) "If there is an agreement, it will be a good thing for the people here, because in this time we have become dead,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

There can be no such thing as an unjust law, he infers, again, because the sovereign is the source of all justice.

而且这世上不可能有不公正的法律，因为君主就是,一切正义与公平的裁定者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And it's a good thing, because officials closed some of the fishing grounds.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

But the crucial thing hasn't yet happened, because after all, in all of these accounts, even that of Hegel, there is no doubt about the authority of consciousness to think what it thinks.

但重要的事情仍未发生，因为毕竟刚刚讲过的所有思想，甚至是黑格尔的，也没有,质疑意识思考所思之物的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"There are more actors now entering the entertainment market than any other time in America, which is a wonderful thing because actors are being really prepared as far as artists."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Selection sort too really reduces to a total number of comparisons because I'm again comparing the current smallest to the next thing I see, the next thing, so really a lot of these sorting algorithms boil down to comparisons and the numbers that you actually have to make.

选择排序也可归纳为总数的比较,因为要将当前最小者与下一个进行比较,接着再下一个，可见,很多排序算法都可归结为比较,以及需要比较的次数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

My assistant will tell you that she often cannot find me because my favorite thing is to escape and just wander around the institution.

我的助手会告诉你,她常常找不到我,因为我最爱做的事情就是,“逃出”办公室，到医院里到处巡视。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

If the other guy doesn't tidy up, you're best off not tidying up either, because the last thing you want is to be tidying up for the other guy.

如果别人不打扫,你最好也别打扫,因为你最不想干的事,就是为别人打扫卫生

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If that's right, if that's the psychology, then even for those death thrill seekers, the ubiquity of death won't necessarily be a good thing because of it being constant.

如果这是对的话，如果这是心理学，那即使对这些死亡刺激寻求者来说，死亡的无处不在也未必是一件好事,因为它是持续的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, normally that's a good thing because if you're out in the world and you get infected with adenoviruses you recover from it, your immune system can get rid of it.

通常情况下这是好事,这可以让暴露在户外的你,免于腺病毒的侵害,你的免疫系统可以清除病毒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We have many billionaires in this country and I think that the only thing you have to do with it is philanthropy. They have to give it away because they are essentially satiated.

我们国家有很多亿万富翁,但对于有钱人,有一点必须做的就是,他们必须给予别人物质上的帮助,是因为他们已经够丰衣足食的了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is to say, it was some kind of a big religious thing going on here, where the king-- it was obviously a royal thing because the cost of it was so enormous; nobody else could afford a tomb of that kind.

也就是说,蜂窝墓与庞大的宗教行为有关,很显然与皇室相关,这是国王所埋葬的地方,因为建造它耗资巨大,没有其他人能建造的起这种墓穴

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Because in New York, with the economic situation in New York, you have, no musician is doing one thing,

因为在纽约，在纽约的经济环境下，没有一个艺术家是只搞音乐的，

作为一名音乐家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Because it implies that it seems as if the person you are speaking with has never done that thing.

因为你在暗示跟你谈话的人似乎根本没做过那件事。

Do you ever课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The second thing is never ask any questions, because presumably it is very frightening to ask, "Any questions?" and people find it's intimidating.

第二件事是千万别发问，因为学生大都害怕提问，一问“有没有问题“，大家就都害怕了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选