But one activity that legally is only supposed to be for people age twenty-one and over is drinking alcohol.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

But this is where for lack of a better term non-western countries really formally challenged at the highest levels and the lowest, too.

之所以这么说，是因为找不到更好的表达方式了,这表明非西方国家,从最高层面和最低层面都提出了挑战。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They say the Earps and Doc Holliday did not fire in self-defense, but used the law as an excuse for murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

No,according to the personality theory, what personal identity requires isn't item-for-item the same personality, but rather the same evolving personality.

不，根据人格理论，个人认同感并不需要一个完全相同的人格，而是同样在进化的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But as he says, the search for life in outer space is a long-term goal, and he is still hopeful.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

He said, my apologies for not answering your letter but my health is poor and--but it was a long letter.

他写道,非常抱歉没能及时回复,我身体欠佳,这是一封很长的信

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But in cases with a known cause the experts say salmonella is responsible for more than one-third of hospitalizations.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

Matt. - So Matt, for you, what bothers you is not the cannibalism but the lack of due process.

马特，-马特，如此说来，真正困扰你的不是食人,而是缺乏正当的程序。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But the United States says deals governing the forty-seven thousand American troops in Japan are not up for renegotiation.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But the people-- But the idea is, the people you care for the most you believe are gone.

但是人们——,但你却认为,自己最关心的人已经不在了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

But for now all you need to know is - that these four different kingdoms-- one was where we now have Greece, another one was where Syria is, another was Egypt, and then there was another further north, but that's not as important for us.

不过目前你们只需要知道,这四个不同的王国-,一个是当今的希腊，一个是当今的叙利亚，一个是埃及，还有一个在更北面的地方，不过对我们来说不是很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But he will be remembered as much for his shot-blocking in the NBA as for his charity work in Sudan.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

According to the sixteenth-century Protestant theologian Jean Calvin - a Swiss theologian, or actually French but he lives in Geneva - God chooses us, God elects us for salvation and damnation.

根据16世纪的新教徒神学家约翰卡尔文的说法,-一位瑞士的神学家，或者事实上是法国人但住在日内瓦,-上帝选择了我们，他选出我们去救世或者下地狱。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Child-bearing may be inevitable for women but the rearing of the child will be the responsibility of the community or at least a class of guardians and common daycare centers.

生育可能无可避免地需要女性,但接下的养育,将是社群的职责,或至少是一个守护阶级,还要有共同的日托中心。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

You know about this but maybe you haven't thought about it at this level of detail, but you know that when you - after you eat, you eat lunch for example.

你们学过胰岛素了,但可能没有在我讲的层面上想过这个问题,但你知道的,吃饭以后,比如说你们吃午饭

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They were not ready for self-government. So,there was nothing for us to do but to take them all.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

As you may know, there's yet another organization where we could group this in units of four but for all intents and purposes-- there are a few nuances to it-- four is simply a multiplication of two.

也许你知道的,还有另外一种组织方式,我们可以四拍一组,但是不论出于什么动机或者目的,这其中的区别甚微,四拍就是两拍的简单相乘

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But some in Congress want to cancel plans for the next-generation replacement for the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

For example, Facebook -- but in China there are a number of Facebook-like services, some of them very popular. One of them is called Xiao Nei.

以Facebook为例，在中国,有许多类Facebook的网站，做得十分成功，其中一个叫做“校内“

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

But the seventeen-year-old decided not to go to college but instead play for the National Basketball Association.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

In this case, this is one of the articles, in fact this was today's reading, I got here a little early so it was this particular article was assigned for today and-- but what shows up when you click on the initial tab is just the abstract of the article not the whole article itself.

例如这是其中一篇,实际上这是今天的资料,我今天到的比较早,所以把它放了上去,这是今天布置的文章,但当你们点击初始的按键时,只能看到文章的摘要而不是全文

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They swallowed it whole. Their teeth were used to rip the meat or plants into mouth-sized pieces, but were not used for chewing.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

That's what the optimist thinks-- not just for themselves individually, but for everybody, the total is always positive.

那是乐观主义者的想法-,而且不但是对他们自己，而是对所有人，等式结果总是正数。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some students even pay for them. But NACE says ninety-two percent of the employers it asked had plans to hire interns this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But we also hope that there aren't any students here who are over-qualified for this course.

但是我们还希望没有学生具有,比这门课的要求还高的水平。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It might be zero for some people, but it's actually-- it is--the standard rate for people who have not negligible income is 15%.

对某些收益较少的人来说税率是零,但实际上...,对于大部分投资获利的人来说,标准税率是15%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选