"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

That's simple, and he just started playing the best tennis of his life, just remembering what it's been like for him.

很简单，他就已经,开始打网球生涯中最好的表现，仅仅是记起了比赛的真正含义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But that's maybe not every Korean student, but the ones I had have been like that.

也许不是每个韩国学生都这样，但是我的学生是这样的。

中国学生的特点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, how long have you been like this?

VOA: standard.other

When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

当我看到白桦树弯下身子，向左，也向右,穿过排列成行的挺直黑黑的树，我总以为有个孩子把白杨“荡“弯了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"He is,he has been taking things from the store, little things like toothpaste and lipsticks, things he can easily sell."

VOA: special.2010.09.11

It's the ottava rima in which all of the great Italian romance epics by poets -- favorite poets of Milton's like Ariosto and Tasso -- had been written.

这是弥尔顿所钟爱的所有伟大的意大利浪漫诗人,例如阿里奥斯多和塔索,曾经用过的体裁。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If they had, they would have been tested to see if they needed treatment to prevent an infection like H.I.V.or hepatitis.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

So, and that's always been like this here.

所以这边总是这样子。

关于有机农场食品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Some festivals, like the one in Adelaide,Australia, are very large and have been going on for many years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They looked like they had always been the weak,unhappy creatures who were bent over the doctor's table.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

So if you've been thinking you're, like, the only senior here who's taking this course: not at all, there's about a hundred of you, there's about a hundred juniors, there's a couple hundred sophomores and about a couple hundred freshman.

如果你觉得你是这门课程中的，唯一的一个毕业班的学生：那你们错了，这里有大约一百个毕业班的学生，大约一百个大三的学生，一两百个大二的学生,还有大约一百个大一的新生。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I was only 12, but I tried to sound like I had been doing this for years.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

There's one more piece that we'd like to get out of that, and that is-- you may have been wondering, what's with the funky stuttering here of three double-quotes in a row. All right? And that is a specification.

但是你没有屏蔽这个函数的使用细节,在这里我们还想再讲一讲,那就是--你可能正在想,这里连续3个奇怪双引号,是干什么用的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Leaders like President Obama,however, argue that the recession would have been much worse without the spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

They used to pay out typically like 80% of their earnings but it's been gradually going downward and now it's down to like 40%.

过去他们将收益的80%作为股利,但现在正慢慢减少,目前降到了40%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

NASA scientists say the Earth-like planets are among one thousand two hundred thirty-five possible planets orbiting other stars that have been discovered so far.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century, though they would have been very angry to hear me say this, was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.

进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中,尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满,与基督教对永生的信仰类似

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example,companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta have been developing corn with reduced water needs.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Michael Jordan did fast food companies, kobe Bryant, and then you of course get all the cartoon characters like Sponge Bob and other things that over the years have been associated with a number of these products, so that--those attachments are very important. Yes?

迈克尔·乔丹为快餐店代言,还有科比·布莱恩特,当然,还有那些卡通角色,像海绵宝宝等其它角色,多年以来,它们都与,一系列产品紧密联系,所以这些联系是十分重要的,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

These drugs have been useful in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

What's important about the construction of St. Petersburg-- I don't know how many of you have ever been there; I haven't been there for a very, very long time-- this city is not like Moscow at all.

那么修建圣彼得堡到底有什么重要的意义呢,我不知道你们之中有多少人去过那儿,我并没有在那个地方逗留过很久,但这座城市和莫斯科完全不一样

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These drugs have been useful in treating autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis,and Crohn's disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

So you have to admit in fact it was surprising if only 1/4 teenager girls that everybody ask on the date by someone they don't like to go out with, let alone has been some sexual harassment, or sexual molestation, or sexual stocking, which was the lover of language that was used mostly in the media in reporting them.

因此你不得不承认，事实上这件事情令人惊讶,如果只有1/4的女孩子,被她们不想一起出去的人,邀请外出约会，那更不必说那些受到性骚扰，性侵犯和性跟踪的人，其实不过是过于咬文嚼字,正如媒体报道这些事情的时候所用的字眼一样。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They simply act like robots. In some cases, documents may have been falsified.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

It's across the street from the Park Slope Food Co-op, which is like, it's been there for 40 years, and

它在斜坡公园的食品供销社对面，好像有四十多年的历史了，而且

布鲁克林的变化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Her songs have been used on shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Gossip Girl."

VOA: special.2009.01.30

and I think there's like rumors that Apple has been talking about creating some sort of service like that.

有谣言称苹果正在开发类似这种的服务。

没有智能手机活不了 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I've always been like that. Byron was the only person I enjoyed reading during the nail-biting and tense period of studying for my orals.

我从下就这样，拜伦是,我读书的时候唯一一个喜欢的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选