One spring night, the couple was asleep when a broad ribbon of white light slid across the old woman's pillow.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

When I reflect on the first couple of years of Baidu's operation, I think there are three things that's very critical.

当我回想百度最初的那几年，有三件事是非常重要的。

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

I have a friend who lives in SoMa, south of market, so couple of blocks away, and he's...

我有一位朋友住在超市南边的苏玛区，离这里差不多有两个街区，他……

苏玛区的公寓 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

So he grabbed his thermometer, and went and made a couple of measurements and discovered the first law of thermodynamics.

所以他拿来了温度计，进行测量,后来就发现了热力学第一定律。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The couple never legally divorced because of their Catholic faith, but they did sign a separation agreement.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

So, we devoted a lecture early on--of a couple of weeks ago, to individual differences across people in intelligence and personality.

几周之前我们用了一整节课，来讲人与人之间的智力与个性差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

We've looked at Milton's earliest poem, or what Milton wants us to think of as his earliest poem, from a couple of different perspectives.

我们已经看了弥尔顿最早期的诗歌，或者说弥尔顿希望我们认为是他最早的诗，从一些不同的角度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Michael made a couple of dunks. But hey,Manute stood his ground."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

between a couple of states in Euboea, that said they would never use missiles of any kind, because that was cowardly.

有一款条约,其中写道他们永远不使用任何投掷物,因为那样很懦弱

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"So in Brazil,I would translate as 'the Day of the Couple.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I just turned it on literally this morning to start playing and I'm on myself a couple of email lists, one of which had an email this morning saying, "Hey, has anyone tried this, it really kind of sucks."

今天早上我就碰到这样的情况了,我收到了两份邮件单，其中一份有一封邮件说，嗨，有人用过这个了吗，真是糟透了“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So I brought a couple of songs to my old buddy Charles Arthur in Virginia, and we did a few there.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

And let's just run a couple of examples to remind you of what happens if we do this.

让我们跑一些例子来提醒,你我们这么做有什么结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Members of a local conservation group, Watamu Turtle Watch, have been observing the nest for a couple of days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

A couple of announcements before we get started: tomorrow there will be a 10 minute quiz in recitation based upon the content of homework one.

在我们开始之前有几点声明：,明天会有一个10分钟的小测验,详细叙述课后作业内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Obviously we are disappointed with the events that have happened over the last couple of days, I've made that clear,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

I'm thinking of a couple of people in particular, I won't mention any names in the public sphere.

我心中有几个特定的人选，但我不会在公开任何姓名,不会在这公开的场合。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A single light bulb hangs above the table. There are a couple of pieces of furniture,small sofas without cushions,and a small table.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Builders were doing extremely well until a couple of years ago their stock was soaring--now all of a sudden they're in crisis.

直至前几年建造商们的表现一直非常优异,本来股票大涨,忽然就陷入了危机

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The land surface pokes just a couple of meters on average above sea level, making it the lowest-lying nation in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And so I said, "I'm dropping out and my friends many of them thought I was nuts. There's couple of professors who are still over there who told me I was nuts."

所以我说，“我要辍学，我的朋友都认为,我是个傻蛋，有很多仍然在那儿,教书的教授都说我就是个傻蛋“

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"So it could be a couple of years before we see the true impacts of the oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

So, what I want to do is take at least a couple of minutes and pursue some of these extra features as well.

所以我想至少花几分钟,来谈谈其中的一些特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We have a step-by-step procedure we follow." (VOICE) Gertie Walls started teaching Singapore Math to her students a couple of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

An agonist is a substance that mimics the action of a natural ligand, and I show you a couple of examples of agonists here.

激动剂是能够模拟天然配体分子的物质,在这里我给出了一些激动剂作为例子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It hasn't helped. The elimination of a couple of people, it could be 8 or 10 so far,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

We can look at the basic structure of Deuteronomy in a couple of ways.

我们可以通过许多种方式来研究申命记的结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some of the folks that we hired very early on have gone on to great, important positions. One of the guys we hired a couple of years after starting is still on my executive team.

我们早期的员工中有一些,已经晋升到高层，很重要的位置上了,一个员工是,公司创建几年后招进来的，现在在主管团队。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选