In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

What I would say about this one, cause it's most complicated, I would say, in the history of humanity.

我会说，因为,是非常复杂的，我会说，是整个人类史上最复杂的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Ignore this one here 'cause this is when I was just writing down the original list of size 1.

暂且忽略这个，因为它是大小为1的列表中的元素,我只是把它写下来而已。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But in cases with a known cause the experts say salmonella is responsible for more than one-third of hospitalizations.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

If we torture this one-- of course to torture,you cause pain to bodies, but the pain gets felt in the mind.

如果我们折磨这个-,当然了，折磨会在肉体上产生痛苦，而痛苦可以被意识感知。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Cardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And if you had a motor here that was causing a paddle to move up and down you could cause waves to form at one end of the tank and move from left to right.

如果在水槽里放个发动器,来让水上下起伏,波浪形成于,水槽的一端,然后从左向右扩散。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

One of the last decisions of its term will likely cause employers to take greater care in how they choose workers to promote.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Twelve thousand parts per million of the gas will cause death in one to three minutes.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

为什么不引起恐惧的不一致性,会让人们发出一种与别不同的声音,而且这种声音是间断的，一节声音持续15分之一秒,两节声音之间也是相隔15分之一秒？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Any one of these could cause damage to a spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

According to Jim Jennings, a spokesperson for Allstate Insurance Company, says the number one cause of distracted-driving accidents is cell phones.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He said any one-sided step will unravel the framework of agreements that exist and cause unilateral steps from the Israeli side.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Of course,the biggest difference between the two bills, and one likely to cause the most friction in House-Senate negotiations, involves the so-called "public option" or competing insurance the government would offer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"That was not part of the briefing that we received. It was just noted as one of the problems associated with these events, not that it was the cause of the civilian casualties."

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

A national survey finds that one in four parents in the U.S.believe that vaccines containing thimerosal cause autism in healthy children and one in eight have refused at least one ecommended dose of vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"Because cardiovascular death is the number one cause of death in the world, not just in developed countries, but throughout the world, the role that air pollutants play on this has a tremendous effect on overall world mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"To take an opportunity to make sure that the indifference that the American people have had to the cause in Darfur ends, that we recognize we are all part of one human family and that it is very important that we stand up and that we make our voices be heard."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23