Can it be that all Earthmen are like you?

VOA: special.2010.07.31

You kind of wonder, how can it be that people had such different views depending on which city they lived in?

也许你会纳闷,不同城市的居民怎么会,对这个问题的看法如此迥异

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Do you think actors are born with the talent, or can it be developed with the education?

你觉得演员是天生就有演戏的才能，还是可以通过训练培养呢？

演技要磨练出来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She said that under no condition can it be claimed there was an organized policy that led to them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

How, in other words, can it be put to political purposes if there is this underlying, implicit centrism in this notion of reconciliation, harmonization, and balance?

也就是说,文学既然强调和谐和平衡,又怎么能用于政治目的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Or,it can be severe. The National Headache Foundation says more than forty-five million people in the United States suffer chronic headaches.

VOA: special.2011.05.03

So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Then they collect the evidence and carefully document and transport it so that it can be further examined in a laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

We'll start with Week 2 talking about Genetic Engineering; what's DNA, how can it be manipulated, how is our ability to manipulate DNA led to things like gene therapy which can now be done in people.

从第二周开始我们会讲基因工程,什么是DNA,怎么样才能操控它们,我们如何操作DNA,并将它应用于人类的基因疗法

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I can do so many things with it. It can be really pretty or it can be really angry."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It can be the grandness of the Grand Canyon, But it can also be this little tiny nature is in that same little tiny plot.

所以自然中的灵性可能是像大峡谷一样的雄伟，也可能是这块小小的,方块里的微型自然界。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Also,the root can stay in the ground for as long as three years, so it can be harvested as needed.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.

最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It can be driven three hundred kilometers on the hydrogen cell and an additional fifty kilometers on its batteries.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Now, this is a large class, and if you don't do anything about it, it can be very anonymous.

这是一门大班课程,如果你并不打算和周围人相互介绍的话,也就不会有什么人能够认识你了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the study says it can be more economical in the long term than using fuels like gasoline, diesel or kerosene.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Whatever you want to do; check your email, publish tweets, go shopping or whatever, it can be solved by this one box.

无论你想做什么;,查收邮箱，发布推特状态，网上购物等等，都可以通过这个搜索框解决。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

"No," you say,"it just can't be true! Who told you?" Comes the answer, "I got it by the grapevine."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And,it means that transgenic marmosets can be produced from breeding instead of by the lengthy process of injecting fertilized eggs.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

So, that's the first point: It's material. The second point is that narrative has a form, and that it can be constructed, built.

这就是我第一个观点：它是物质的，第二个理由是,叙述故事有一个框架，它可以像一个手工品一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If I can be the one to save it from that danger, then my health and life are not important."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So, in the end, the physics is the same but the numbers describing it can be different.

所以虽然物理过程相同,但是描述过程的数值可以不同

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Enriched uranium can be used as fuel for nuclear energy as Iran says or it can be used for nuclear bombs.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Although pro-slavery writers will become deeply contemptuous of Natural Law of Natural Law doctrine as it can be applied to the possibilities of man.

虽然亲奴制的作家,会非常蔑视自然法和及其规律法则,因为它能激发人类的潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It can be made locally. A group based in the United States, IDE,International Development Enterprises, has created programs in different countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Electron affinity, however, can be either negative or it can be positive.

但是，电子亲和能既可以是负的,也可以是正的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He says a lot of it can be avoided just by choosing the right plant for the right space.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

It's not necessary to do that, but it can be quite convenient.

虽然没有必要这样做，但是这样做是很方便的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Also, it can't be an accident that it's an African American family depicted in here, so there are a lot of interesting things going on in this little video clip.

此外,广告刻画了一个非裔美国人,家庭的画面,也绝对不是巧合,所以这个广告短片里,有很多耐人寻味之处

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选