The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

If people want to take the chance or if people want to live big today and live a poor retirement, that should be their choice.

如果人们想要碰运气,或今朝有酒今朝醉,哪管退休喝凉水，那也是他们的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So it was like a big shock to me because after five years, I thought I know the language.

所以，这对我来说，就是一个很大的打击，因为五年的学习以后，我以为我掌握这门语言了。

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Government rescues of banks considered "too big to fail" angered the public and helped fuel a conservative movement.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Control of gene expression is a very big topic and so I'm going to show you one cartoon to sort of tell you that it is a big topic that's really important.

基因表达的调控是个大课题,我给你们放一些动画,好让你们理解,其涉及范围之广,意义之重

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The company's owners said the mountain was too big to build a railroad around it.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

That's an important point, because it tells you what really is the big picture that is going to emerge.

这一点是很重要的,因为你将会了解到这将掀开一幅怎样宏大的画卷

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These include businesses that, during the financial crisis, were considered "too big to fail."

VOA: special.2010.07.23

0 So on a scale of 1 to 10, how big a mistake was it that they let Lehman go?

那么假定从1到,让雷曼兄弟破产的决定是多大的错误？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"You know, it was a pretty big thing and certainly much too big to fit inside an eye socket."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Or sometimes the Romans liked to take a big theater and fill the central part of the theater, the cavea, with water and then stage naval battles and that kind of thing.

有时候罗马人也喜欢利用大剧院,在大剧院的中心和兽笼，注满水，上演大海战之类的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"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

It used to be a big, broad sheet and they made it smaller in 2005 and they started--they keep cutting out data.

曾经是很宽大的报纸,在2005年被缩小了,并且开始不断减少数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

It's pretty arbitrary, but it's big relative to what the numbers were we were talking about before.

它是任意的，但它是跟数字是相关的,我们之前讲到过。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The Apology, the Crito, these are warm-ups to the big theme, to the big book, the Republic.

苏格拉底自辩篇》，《克里托篇》,都是更大主题的，暖身读物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is different from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where they bring people to the big towns.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Now these worries were raised by John Locke the great British philosopher, and he thought, this is too big a pill to swallow.

这是约翰·洛克提出的,他是伟大的英国哲学家，他认为，这个问题太大。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Besides expanding the Federal Reserve's powers to police banks and speculative markets, the measure also contains provisions to prevent financial institutions from becoming too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

So the big three People who are similar to you, people who are already familiar to you, people who are nearby in space.

三大可变因素,相似性，熟悉度，空间接近性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Besides giving the central bank the power to limit institutional risks, the proposal gives the Fed the ability to break up large institutions considered "too big to fail."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

But you can imagine the inability to do that in a big population study with thousands and thousands of subjects, so we have to rely on data like this.

但你们可以想象在一个大样本研究中,不可能对数以千计的研究对象做这种培训,所以我们需要依靠像这样的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She says the amount of space needed between the plants depends on how big you expect the heads to be.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Now, if you're an engineer, and you use the ideal gas law to design a chemical plant or a boiler or an electrical plant, you know, a steam plant, you're going to be in big trouble.

比如说锅炉，蒸汽机,我们会遇到一个大问题：,我们设计的机器将无法运作，因为对大部分实际气体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He said he would get it, but first he wanted to know how big she thought the moon was.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

So, that is something these writers share with modernism, but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you just by reading to you two parallel texts, one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.

所以，这就是这些作者和现代主义的相似之处，但其中有个很大的区别，我想通过举例来说明,我给你们读两段类似的文字，分别是标准的现代主义风格和垮掉的一代的风格。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Because his wife Millicent liked to invite her friends to big dinners and serve them rare and expensive food and wine.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

But I had like, really, really big dreams, so I wanted to pursue in New York, which led me here.

但我有很伟大的梦想，我想在纽约实现这个梦想，这也是我来这里的原因。

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And sometimes what we do, what we want to do is have them solve problems before problems get to be too big.

所以我们做的这些，就是为了在问题发生之前就解决了。

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