But when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, the western alliance's main reason for being disappeared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

But there's nothing in the body view to give us a reason to make that choice.

但肉体理论没有一个标准让我们做出选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But at least it would give us some reason to believe in the soul.

但至少它给了我们一些相信灵魂存在的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But Ryan says that's not the main reason the number of commercial lobster boats has dropped in the Boston Harbor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says neither side expects a major shift in relations, but the White House does have reason for concern.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But one that I was very interested in was biology, and the reason was we did a lot of cool labs in high school, I loved doing the dissections -- it was very interesting to me to think about how different organs worked, how the heart could be a pump, how the lungs worked.

但当时我很喜欢生物学，因为我高中做了很多很酷的生物实验,我很喜欢解剖-,我觉得了解不同器官,怎么工作很有趣,像心脏怎么泵血。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"You've got some people involved who have a grandiose plot for some fanatical reason to put a bomb in the center of New York, but they're not very adept at explosives or bomb-making.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Finally though, the point that he makes is a terrific one, all of these things seem natural to us but the reason why they seem natural is not because they are in some sense necessary or logical truths.

最后，尽管，他表达得很好，所有这些对我们而言很自然,但我们认为他们自然的原因,并非他们是必要的,或是逻辑真理。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Second reason we don't want over-qualified students in the class, it sounds a little nasty, but the second reason is, an over-qualified student, somebody who's, I don't know, programmed for Google for the last five years, is going to have an easy time in this course, but we don't want such a student accidentally intimidating the rest of you.

我们不希望高水平的学生来听课,还有一个原因，虽然听起来，有一点儿令人不快，但是第二个原因是，我们不希望，某位我不知道的高手，在为谷歌编写了五年的程序之后，很轻松地上这门课，从而使得周围同学,感到威胁。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But they're not accurate all the time in predicting bonding within molecules, and the reason for this is because Lewis structures are not, in fact, based on quantum mechanics.

但它们在预测分子内,成键时不总是正确的，这是因为Lewis结构，实际上不是基于量子力学的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选