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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.02.02

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

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

VOA: special.2010.03.30

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

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

VOA: special.2010.03.14

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

Any one of these could cause damage to a spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

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

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

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

"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