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

Sixty-six, right 'cause we've got one in the 64's column 1 and a one in the two's column, okay.

6，因为我们在64那列得到一个,和在2列得到一个。

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

So, one question is, "What would cause me to perceive somebody as intelligent or stupid, gay or straight, anxious or level-headed?"

第一个问题是，是什么原由让我认为别人是,聪明的，愚蠢的，同性恋的，异性恋的，紧张的，还是冷静的？”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

It can also cause flooding. Wind speeds in a category two hurricane can reach close to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

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

Why would anyone ever risk one's life for ? one's country or a cause just to help other people, people that we don't know and probably will never know?

为什么人人都要为自己的国家或者,去救人的缘由而冒险，并且这个人我们不认识,可能永远也不会认识？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Migraine headaches cause Americans to miss at least one hundred fifty million workdays each year.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Well, I might move my hands here 'cause this list only has one element left.

我会将手移到这边，因为这个列表中,只剩下一个元素了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They said no one wanted to hear that industrial companies could cause great ecological damage.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

On the one hand, it could be that certain facts, if you knew them, would cause you to behave differently without actually giving you any reason to behave differently.

一方面，可能有某些事实，如果你知道了它们，会导致你的行为不同,但并没有真正地给你改变行为的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Any one of these could cause damage to a spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

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

The cause was colon cancer. She was eighty-one.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

So we're not having you sign the release forms Two things, one thing is personally, I have to remind myself not to use profanity 'Cause children maybe watching.

所以没有让各位签署授权协议,两点需要说明,第一,就我而言,我会尽量注意自己的言辞,因为可能会有孩子观看

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

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

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

You know why we'rea good partnership, Forrest? 'Cause we be watching outfor one another, like brothers and stuff.

VOA: standard.other

For years researchers have tried to locate one single cause for stomach cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

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