Thirty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission found that Stanley Kaplan's program could raise SAT scoresbut only by about twenty-five points.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The discount rate was a policy variable set by the Fed and it was typically fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate.

贴现率是一个联邦可改变的政策,并且它比联邦资金利率通常,低五十个基本点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

And let's start by considering my payoffs on this picture, just to help myself a bit, let me put some points in here.

我们从在图上表示预期收益开始,稍微等我一下,我先标注出来几个点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

Let's illustrate these general points by just reading together and trying to hear the beginning of Robert Frost's poem "Birches," on page 211 in The Norton.

让我们解释这个笼统的观点通过一起读诗,尝试去听罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗“桦树“,在211页，诺顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They will earn extra points in the Race to the Top if they approve the standards by August second.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

slightly other kind of language that Plato uses at various points, "Likes are known by likes."

一种稍微不同的说法是,柏拉图在多个观点中所用到的,同类互知

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

By the way, all the names that I read and that are not on the power points, you don't need to remember or write down.

我所提到名字不会出现在幻灯片上，不必背诵或记录。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They were losing by as many as thirteen points in the second half.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

And when I ran that it, I got weird results, 300 because we know that a Google priced at, say, 300, is much more likely to move by 10 points in a day than a stock that's priced at $0.50.

当运行这个程序的时我得到很奇怪的答案，因为我们知道一只谷歌的股价大概是，对一个0。5美元的股票来讲,每天改变10个点才比较正常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's called bullfighting, in which clowns earn points, prize money and lots of laughs by artfully evading grouchy bulls.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

And those things taken together have pushed the growth rate by couple of percentage points beyond what India's trade growth rate has been in the last 25 years.

所有因素综合起来,大大促进了印度经济的发展,使印度的贸易增长额,较过去的25年,有了显著增长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Economists warn growth may be cut by up two percentage points this year, to about four percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

The opposite leaflet does the other thing, the water soluble part points down and the fat points up, so now you have thin region of fat which is surrounded on both sides by water.

相反的部位则有不同的情况,水溶性部分向下,而脂肪向上,所以现在就得到了,两侧均被水包围的薄层脂肪区域

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Crystal also points to several studies by scholars of the Coventry University in England and University of Washington that support the same theme.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Obviously Tony the Tow Truck points a moral and so would be subject - to a kind of devaluation on those grounds by the New Criticism-- even though there are ways of reading Tony, as I've been suggesting, New Critic-ally.

显然《搬运车托尼》提供了一个道德的标准,新批评派对其,不会有很好的评价-,虽然，我也说过，从新批判派的角度阅读《搬运车托尼》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon is taking advantage of the decision by a United Nations-backed tribunal to release four senior generals, Wednesday,to score points ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

He points to analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that calculates the proposed law would reduce farmers' incomes by about 1 percent in the short term, and about seven percent over coming decades.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The onslaught of worrisome news is creating an investor climate similar to a brief panic that erupted on May 6, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by 1000 points before bouncing back later in the day, according to UBS Financial Services market analyst Art Cashin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20