But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

That - irreversible changes happen all the time too but here I'm talking about very subtle small changes where you're changing the structure of the protein but only a little bit such that it can go back.

这种不可逆的改变时时刻刻都在发生,但我在这里想讲的是,对蛋白质结构进行微小的改变,小到这种改变是可逆的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

All right? If I'm gambling, I'm saying, gee, if I'm really lucky, it'll be only on this side, and I've got a little bit of work to do, but if I'm unlucky, I'm scrawed, the past pluperfect of screwed, OK., or a Boston fish.

如果我够幸运的话，目标数就会在这边的，这会大大减少我的工作量，但如果不幸运呢？我就完蛋了，我就得再从剩下的这么大的数组里找了，这很痛苦，因此选中位数是正确答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

I know that some felt the pace of the arguments was a little slow, but I felt that this was generally necessary, not only for the unphilosophy-savvy population, but also to cover all points."

我知道有人认为论证过程有点慢，但我感觉这样做总体上讲是有必要的，不只是为了不懂哲学的同学们，也是为了能覆盖所有推理内容“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We're bringing back to people with Type 1 diabetes not only the proper amount of insulin dosed correctly into the right amount, but also this ability to provide a little bit of glucagon after meals, if the insulin dosing turned out to be a little excessive.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15