You get down to brass tacks when you say, "it sounds good, but how much does it cost?"

VOA: special.2010.05.16

It sounds pretty silly, but it's really important because it allows you to define a thermometer and temperature.

这听起来相当白痴，但是它确实很重要,因为它让你可以定义,温度计和温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I really care about... it sounds really cheesy, but I would like to live in a better world,

我关注的是……这也许听起来挺华而不实的，但我希望我们的世界更加美好，

为了更美好的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a personal toilet called the Peepoo.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

This all sounds very general but there are some striking demonstrations of this and how it could work in everyday life.

听起来很泛泛而谈,但这种现象非常显著,影响我们日常生活的方方面面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That sounds simple. But the issue is a complex mix of technical,business, political and legal questions.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

And I know it sounds kind of crazy but we have a lot of fun as you can tell.

我知道听上去很疯狂,但我们相处得很快乐，你们看得出。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But they agree that she is experimenting with electronic sounds and new ways of singing.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

So, it would be working parallel but their job would be to represent the consumer and that sounds like a good idea to me.

这样这个新的机构就能,但与其他机构不同的是他们的工作是保护消费者,对我来说这是个好点子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It sounds like precede but it means prevent.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Call them towns for the sake of argument, sounds too urban, but call them that.

称这些为城镇是为了避免引起争议,听起来太城市化了,不过就这么叫吧

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They came back and said, 'Sure,that sounds like a good idea, but could you train a monk to bake while you are here?'

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But just the way you said it there of course sounds Christianity for me.

我觉得，你刚才说的那些,很像基督教的内容。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A bullhorn sounds indicating timeouts. But because the players are deaf, backboard-mounted lights also flash to insure the players knew what was going on.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And when you reread this poem and you look at it in your discussion section, you may want to think about the tenses it sounds tedious but I am convinced that it's not tedious the tenses of the verbs that Milton's using.

当你重新读这首诗,并在讨论时再看它的时候，你可能会思考它的时态,这听起来很乏味，但我确信,弥尔顿用的动词的时态一点都不乏味。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

And it sounds like there's a party at Jean's house but you haven't been invited yet.

听起来似乎是珍妮要在家里开一个派对，但是目前还没邀请你参加。

Is there 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It sounds easy, but senior engineer Gwak Byung-man admits there are daunting technical challenges.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

So, let's write this one electron orbital approximation for berylium, that sounds like a pretty complicated question, but hopefully we know that it's not at all, 1s22s2 it's just 1 s 2, and then 2 s 2.

所以让我们写出,铍的单电子轨道近似，那听起来像是一个更为复杂的问题，但是希望我们知道它一点都不是，它仅仅是。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But Kakutani says it wasn't as simple as it sounds.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

And that latter statement sounds funny, you don't think of computations having limits, but they do.

这个说法听起来挺逗，你们不会认为计算有局限性，但事实上他们有。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"There's a buoyancy in prison now, it sounds like an oxymoron, but there's a buoyancy in prison now because a lot of people have a stake in helping our war wounded."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Sounds can't be seen. They are not visible, but for all that, they can be sensed.

声音看不见，但是可以感知到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Which doesn't sound that far if you have a car, but it sounds very far if you have to get on a bus, and you have to carry your week's worth of groceries home with you."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Yes, to some extent it is that, yes, but what I was thinking about here is this idea that the lowest sounds create the longest sound waves, and they last the longest.

是的,从某种程度上来说是那样,但我在想的是这个理论,最低的声音,发出最长的声波,而且持续的最久

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Depends on--I don't want to be too rigorous about that because you could imagine the other way around, but if you talk to managers this sounds more realistic, at least for retail goods like Coke and Pepsi.

这方面我不想太绝对,因为你们可能会想象其他的情形,但如果你们和那些经理谈过,现在的模型会更贴近现实,至少对于可乐这样的零售产品而言

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

and they don't remember the rules, but they just know it sounds right.

他们并不知道什么规则，就是知道那样听起来才正确。

韩国人经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Chinese sounds good, but I don't know.

听起来不错，但是我也拿不定主意。

What do you 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the "it sounds like" pattern can only be used when the other person you're speaking with

但是“it sounds like”句型只能使用于当你的谈话对象

It sounds like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You might choose to use a word for "Dog" as "Woof woof" because it sounds like a dog but you can't use a word for "Country" that sounds like a country.

你可以用"汪汪"这个词来表示"狗",因为它听起来像只狗,但你却无法使用一个听起来像国家的词,来表示"国家"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选