But it also keeps up with today's community.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

So basically, at the time he was just going on size and then traits, but what we actually know today is that we can also order things in the periodic table by electron configuration.

基本上，在当时他只能通过大小,和特性来进行，但是现在我们已经知道了,我们还可以通过电子排布来对它们进行排序。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

First, I'd like to explore two dimensions of education and I'm thinking not only in terms of classroom education which you are familiar with but also the distance education which is so prominent in the development today.

首先，我想探究两个维度的教育,其中一个角度是,你们熟悉的课堂教育,另一个角度是远程教育,现在它的发展十分显著。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

or sorry, you did choose to show up today, we'll understand, but please also understand that the TAs won't have a lot of patience with you if you're asking a question about something that was either covered in the readings, or covered in the lecture and is pretty straight forward. All right?

你确实决定了来上课，我们会理解你的，但是请明白,当你问了一个,既在阅读材料里,也在课堂上讲过的浅显问题时，助教们可没有太多耐心,接待你？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's important to understand the ancestral diet to see why we've evolved, the biological reasons we are the humans we are today, but it also helps instruct us about what we might happen to do.

了解祖先的饮食结构非常重要,它帮助我们理解人类为何演化,找出造成我们现状的生物学成因,这也有助于我们找到应对方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.

储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选