The citizens of Ada knew he had been arrested several times but had always been released for lack of evidence.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

I didn't really care but had to ask anyway, "how different?" And they would say, " "Well you know, we expected you to be more outgoing."

我无所谓，不过总得回应，“有何不同？“，他们会说，“这个嘛，我们以为你很外向“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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。

耐克设计师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

In fact, I don't know if in the news the pioneer in this is a man named Judah Folkman, who is a surgeon who first speculated that this was important, and sadly he died on Monday, but had a dramatic impact on our understanding of how cancers develop in people and new approaches.

实际上,我不清楚这个新闻中提到的人,是不是犹太?福克曼,这个领域的先驱,他是个外科医生,最先提出了这个重要的理论,不过不幸的是他在本周一去世了,他让我们对癌症有了新认识,带给我们治疗癌症的新思路

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The bullets had hit the steel. The force of the bullets had knocked him down, but had not hurt him.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Annette Flanagin and Joe Wislar said they were pleased about the decrease but had hoped it would be larger.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Perhaps the data rate was a little bit faster than you were accustomed to, but you had some familiarity.

可能这个数据速度,相比你所熟悉的有些快，但是你有一些亲切感。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The researchers completed a study involving five volunteers who had lost their arms, but had the TMR surgery.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

That's a lot less than the amount of money out there but they always had fractional reserve of banking anyway.

这比流通的金钱少的多,但是他们总是有部分准备金银行制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Honorary authors, also called guest authors, receive credit in a published study but had little to do with designing it or writing the article.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

But if we had common knowledge of rationality in this class, then the optimal choice would have been 1.

但是如果大家都知道彼此是理性的,那么最优策略就是1

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Bruce Springsteen did the honors: "This was a band that not only wanted to lay claim to this world, but had their eyes on the next one,too.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

It's headed by one person but in our case it had 4-5 people working on nothing but the president's schedule.

通常有一个人完成,但我们的办公室由4，5个人负责,他们仅仅是负责日程安排。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Her father worked hard but had not been very successful.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

But I had family in the New York area, and I wanted to be closer to them, and I wanted to give my daughters the opportunity for a multicultural community environment.

但我在纽约地区有家人，我想靠他们近一些，而且想让我的女儿们有机会,融入多元群体的环境中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

So the right question to ask is, what's the probability, not that June had 48 babies, but that at least one of the 12 months had 48 babies.

所以正确的问题是，不是去看这个6月,有48个宝宝出生，而是去看至少有一个月的出生人数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The policeman who ran into them was not only drunk, but had gone through a red light and had no siren on.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Senior State Department officials later said North Korea had been invited by Thailand to send an envoy to Phuket but had not responded.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Not because they were French, but they had a baby and it would gaggle and coo and they would respond in similar terms.

并非因为他们是法国人,而是因为他们的婴儿,婴儿会讲些咯咯咕咕的婴儿语,而他们会以同样的婴儿语对婴儿进行反应

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to have attended the G-8 ministerial, and a weekend meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Greece, but had to cancel because of her recent surgery for a broken elbow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

But luckily we had the control of the red laser pointer where nothing moved at all.

但是很幸运我们可以,控制红色激光笔,虽然什么都没有移动。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"When I found a medieval abbey in France that said they had been baking for 1300 years, but had lost the last monk who knew how to bake bread, I volunteered to come over and bake some bread for them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But sometimes he had a tendency to pick people whom he liked a lot but were totally unqualified, military commanders who weren't very good.

但有时他倾向于选择,他很喜欢但完全不合格的人,例如不很得力的军事指挥者

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But she had never met a musician she felt fully shared her musical point of view until she met Matt Ward.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Yeats once said that he wanted the natural words in the natural order, but he had a very highly cultured sense of what is natural, and his poetry is full of verbal archaism.

叶芝曾说他想让自然的话语,用自然的方式呈现，但对于,自然的定义他又将其高度文化化，他的诗歌有很多口语的古语表达。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Another little pop quiz here, and these aren't trick questions necessarily, but if you had to guess what the bigger problem was in the developing world, so let's not just say outside the U.S.

我们再做一个小测试,这不是什么难题,你们猜猜,发展中国家面临最大的问题是什么,我们所说的不是美国以外的国家

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选