But it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

You sort of attack somebody and they're laughing but if it's--but if somebody's trying to mug you you're not "Ah, this is so funny."

你假装打对方，对方会觉得很好笑,但如果有人抢劫你时,你不会觉得好笑“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So things can be dangerous. But generally, if you're smart, I think it's a very safe place to live.

因此，危险还是存在的。但大多数情况下，只要你精明点，我认为那儿还是一个非常安全的居住地。

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But scientists wonder how animals arrived on Galapagos if the islands were always so far from the mainland.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

So we have 4 plus 5, but we're actually not done yet, because it's c n minus, so if we have minus, we actually have an extra electron in our molecule.

我们有四个加上五个，但是我们实际上还没做完，因为这是个负离子，所以如果我们有这个负号，那么我们的分子实际上还有一个额外的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Not that I am saying the opportunities are so great, because of course there limited opportunities if you compare it to America, but I think one of the biggest things is literally just motivation."

VOA: special.2011.03.03

So if you guys could come over here but still maintain your alignment so 128 should be all the way over here and one, you should be all the way over here and you guys similarly need to shuffle.

你们可以过来,但要保持队形,你可以走过来,后面的人也可以跟着慢慢的移动。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The Jamaican bobsledders will be back, but so will skiers from countries like Kenya that rarely, if ever,see snow,like Kenyan .

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

And so it's not, perhaps, crippling if this is the conclusion we reach, but at the same time it's not the only possible conclusion.

因此，如果这就是我们的结论，也没有太大关系，但同时要知道这不是惟一可能的结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

(OMITTED) He says earthquakes are natural events, but if homes were built properly, the L'Aquila quake would not have been so devastating.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

So if earnings go up a lot, we'll raise our dividends, but only part of the way up.

所以若收益大幅提高,我们会增加分红,但增量有限

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it will do so only if other NATO nations follow suit, the Afghan government pledges to fight corruption,and its forces have adequate equipment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Girls could be given some education, if their families were wealthy enough, but the cities didn't really concern themselves so much with girls' education.

女孩也能接受一点教育，前提是她出身富裕家庭，但总得来说女孩教育不受重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"Well,I know the family so I would be here anyway, But even if I didn't, it's the fact that Lena Horn is an icon of American history.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

This is me writing one hour of that episode of Pirandello and telling the other authors, here's what I'm assuming as you use it. So it's up to me to do it right, but if I do it, I'm going to specify, what does this function do?

作为一个程序员,我得为用户提供一些信息,这正是我写写的皮兰德娄戏剧的一小时片段,并且要告诉其它的作家，这是我希望你使用的地方，所以由我决定怎样去做好它？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But so far, the diplomacy has had little if any impact.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

So, if you by chance, I know it's very rare, but if by chance you don't get the class you can always follow up later.

如果你们偶然，我知道不太可能，但是如果不小心你们错过了某节课,你们就可以在之后补回来了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So that if you say in 1915 there were two million Armenians in what we call Turkey, but the Ottoman Empire - there are now about 60,000 Armenians in Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But in that way I know you are closing " So if you're freshman write "one", " if you're sophomore, write down "two".

这样标记只是为了方便记住你,如果是大一新生，写上“一，大二的话，写上“二。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They do not like uncertainty, so that may be resolved with this agreement, but they also do not like it if there are too many mouths to feed, too many demands on the table."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

But if you say why are they so different from humans that they don't.

但是如果你问，为什么它们与人类,如此不同？，为何它们就没有这些。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We had to say 'well,that is great. If you can get here that is fine, but we are shooting in Adelaide.' So once they jumped in, the film went to a new level and the fact that we had their support was huge."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

So one thing that's missing, or wrong if you like, but the one thing is the voters are not evenly distributed in the real world.

被忽视的因素,或者说错误在于,在现实生活中,每个立场的选民数并非是均分的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

They appear in food in pretty small amounts which is why they're the micronutrients;, but they're vital for health, so if you're deficient in micronutrients you've got big problems.

它们在食物中所占比重很小,这也是称它们为"微量元素"的原因,但它们对健康的意义却是至关重要的,如果缺乏微量元素的话会很糟糕

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

but right now you're going to have to take it for granted. So, if the Joule-Thomson coefficient is equal to zero, just like we wrote, du = Cv dT du = Cv dT for an ideal gas, we're going to dH = Cp dT have dH = Cp dT for an ideal gas as well.

但是现在请你们应该把它看成理所当然的,所以，如果焦耳-汤姆逊系数等于零,就像我们写的，对于理想气体,我们也可以得到对于理想气体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

One of the reasons why the Milgram experiment is so nice to know is that if this ever happens to you, not as an experiment but in real life, it will no longer be new to you.

其中一个原因,为什么我们都应该知道米尔格林姆实验,就是如果这种情况发生在你身上，我不是说实验，而是在现实生活中，你不再对这种情况一无所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All right. So you probably read in the book that the bassoon is a double reed instrument, and so just to show you what that looks like-- You've probably seen it but if you haven't, two pieces of wood vibrate together when I blow through them.

好的,你们可能在书上看到过,巴松管是个双簧乐器,我将为你们演示双簧怎样演奏,你们可能见过,如果没有请看我演示,我吹奏时,两个木片会一起震动

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, Columbus gets the glory of discovering America but it's up to debate if he actually did discover it.

所以，哥伦布获得了发现美洲的殊荣，但对于这个问题，人们仍然争论不休。

哥伦布的故事 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They say that if we didn't have a Royal Family, we would just have a president, but, so what?

他们说，如果我们没有皇室，我们就会有总统，但是，那又怎样？

英国皇室的意义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人