For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed, our hero takes his place.

所以当另一个人被装在车里押到断头台行刑时，我们的主角就代替了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But then,he started teaching some doctrines that struck other Christians in Rome as being a little bit off.

但是接下来他开始传教一些,让其他罗马基督教徒觉得荒诞的教义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Some died from falling off the bridge or from being struck by equipment.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Being well off is a matter of experiencing pleasure and avoiding or minimizing the experience of pain.

幸福就是体验快乐,避免或将痛苦体验最小化。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

People trying to earn money also must be aware of being ripped off.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Think, in "Birches," of really the extraordinary play of language, the freedom of association, all of which is being played off of the strict demands of the meter, at every moment.

想想，“桦树“，是无与伦比的对语言的把玩，自由的结合，所有这些都在格律诗严格的要求下自由地被使用着，每时每刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Take him off the pedestal and look him in the eye as a human being.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Let me just say, no one's making any money off this-- at least I'm hoping these guys are being paid-- but me and the T.A.S are not being paid.

让我说完,没有人会从中得到好处,虽然我也希望他们会得到酬劳,但至少我和助教们是没有酬劳的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A close race is being held for governor in New Jersey where the Democratic incumbent, John Corzine,is trying to hold off Republican challenger Chris Christie and independent candidate Chris Daggett.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Moral purity of persons can be achieved only by punishment for heinous sins: for example, the punishment of chirate, or cutting off, ; is a divine punishment of being extirpated from the House of Israel; death, alright, that's one way to be rid of moral impurity.

只有通过惩罚这些穷凶极恶的罪过,才能获得道德的纯洁，举个例子，切去身上的某部分，是一种连根拔去罪恶的惩罚方法;,死亡，当然也是摆脱道德不洁的一种方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"The aftershocks will start off being fairly large and fairly frequent, and then sort of peter out as time goes on, although you will see aftershocks for weeks to months after the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

So, let's say we start off at the distance being ten angstroms. We can plug that into this differential equation that we'll have and solve it and what we find out is that r actually goes to zero at a time that's equal to 10 to the negative 10 seconds.

也就大约是这么多,所以我们取初始值10埃,我们把它代入到,这个微分方程解它,可以发现，r在10的,负10次方秒内就衰减到零了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Genes are being turned off, genes are being turned on." That's Neurobiologist David Clayton from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the lead researchers in an international team that has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the zebra finch.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Why? Because the Jews didn't like the tax collectors because they were being ripped off by them.

为什么，因为犹太人不喜欢税吏,因为他们被剥削。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What's a tip off to something being composite?

怎么能确定什么东西是合成的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So you're always better off being alive.

所以活着总是会更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

z And what you need to remember is if the z 8 is equal to eight or greater, such as oxygen being the cut-off point, this sigma 2 p orbital is actually lower in energy than the pi 2 p orbitals, the molecular orbitals.

你们要记住如果,等于或者大于，就像O是分界点，这时sigma2p轨道,比π2p轨道能量更低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选