Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

If the average age of death was something like forty-five, maybe a fifty-fifty chance of--high risk-- of one of the parents dying.

那么这个概率其实很低,不是吗,大概有高达50%的可能性,双亲中的一人会死去

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.

如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Finally they see the agent, Mickey Rockford, and appeal to him for a break -- a chance to become stars.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Now, if you are standing there with your -- by the way the first three rows have a chance of hitting each other.

现在,如果你站在那里用你的 --,顺便提一下前三排有机会互相攻击

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Obama administration says the earlier those in trouble can get help, the more chance for long-term success.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

But most of us never get the chance to do anything about that. -That's right.

但我们大多数人都没有机会,身体力行，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

People should tie a bright-colored object to the top of their car to increase the chance of rescue.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

I think the problem is so extreme that nothing non-extreme has any chance of fixing it.

我认为现在的问题非常严重,以至于采用非极端的方法,不会有任何效果。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Congressman James Blaine seemed to have the best chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination in eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Well,this is an argument--at least it seems to me-- that has some chance of being right.

这种论点，至少对我来说-,还是有可能成立的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So the people of Kansas got another chance to show that they did not want a pro-slavery constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And the book just tells you that, right, in one of those palm"-- the ordinary event which is really trickery, a suggestion ; that nothing has been left to chance in the novel; nothing is ordinary.

这本书也这么告诉大家了，对了，就是在,手里的东西）看似普通的事件实则是个奸计,它是一个提醒，提醒大家这部小说里没有什么事是巧合;,任何事都不普通。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The climber,played by James Franco, spends one hundred twenty-seven hours trapped alone with little chance of survival.

VOA: special.2011.02.21

And they stay engaged, because we bring faculties from all over the place and this world-class faculty-- they really have a chance to interact with these.

学生们兴趣浓厚，因为我们收录来自全球,各行各业的学生，在这个世界级学院-,他们有机会进行真正的交流。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"Chance City" is made up of more than thirty-two thousand dollars worth of old lottery tickets.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

That people--they develop some investment strategy and through pure chance it does well.

人们制定了一些投资策略,一些策略的投资效果碰巧十分有效

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mr.Panetta said he believed the killing gave the United States the best chance to defeat al-Qaida since the attacks of September eleventh,two thousand one.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

One nice thing, by the way -- this is just chance I think -- the median answer in the class was nine, which is spot on, so the median hit this bang on.

顺便提一下,有趣的是,我就是顺便提一嘴,班级中位数也是9,中位数正好也是游戏的答案

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Some people have paid as much as sixty-five thousand dollars for the chance to climb Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

So, many people have relatives they know of that have had to have their heart imaged -- heart disease is a major problem in the United States, and there's a good chance that they had Cardiolite given to them to help in that imaging process.

它被用在心脏成像中,很多人都有一些亲戚他们-,必须要做心脏成像，心脏病已经是美国的一个主要问题,而很有可能他们就要用到Cardiolite来成像。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now,looking to the future and the upcoming G-20 summit, Pittsburgh is preparing for a chance to show the world how much the city has changed.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

You have a chance of being way out here with a fat-tailed distribution.

很有可能在,长尾分布的这里

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People also took part in gambling -- games of chance -- in his store.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says replacing white rice with whole grains like whole wheat or barley could result in a thirty-six percent lower chance of developing type two diabetes.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

s a more pervasive problem, a social, more global problem?-Yes.-And do you see a chance that it does reach to a level closer to the Great Depression? How bad does this get, Charlie?

那么说这是一个更加普遍的，So，it’,全球性的社会问题-没错-有没有可能,这次危机会演变成与大萧条相似的危机,查理，这会糟糕到什么地步呢？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

as Charlie Parker's followers called him. Parker knew those performances might be his last chance to re-claim the success he had gained only a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Not that everyone gambles but there will be -you go to any human society and ask about it and there will be some game of chance that they play at the -that influences their thinking.

这不是说所有人都会去赌博,当你随便去做个社会调查,在当地都会有类似赌博的游戏,这会影响人们决策

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This was his chance. He finally had found a profession that would lead to his life work -- making the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01