In nineteen eighty-two, American researchers James Wilson and George Kelling wrote a report describing what they called the broken windows theory.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

So what they do is, they're describing how these thermodynamic properties change, in terms of only state functions and state variables.

他们的作用是描述,随着状态函数和状态变量的变化，系统的热力性质如何变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Some abstraction is also apparent in the shift from visual to aural imagery in describing God's self-manifestations or theophanies.

某些抽离在从纳贡者到听见神的自我宣称,或者神显的想像中也是十分明显的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But before this time, G.I.was an unofficial military term for describing army supplies made out of galvanized iron.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Well, Mario Molina, who was a faculty member here at MIT, won a Nobel prize for describing this process.

马里奥，莫丽娜，一个麻州理工学院的教员，凭借描述这一过程获得了诺贝尔物理学奖。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He died without leaving an official legal document describing what should happen to his property and money.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

The two passages that I'm about to read juxtapose the viewpoints that I've been trying to evoke in describing Gadamer's position.

我要读的这两篇文章在某些观点上是并行的,我在讲伽达默尔的看法时想激发的就是这些观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Twitter says its service provides a way for people to stay connected to others, through messages describing what they are doing at that moment.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

there is almost a kind of metaphorical play between what he's describing and the sounds with which he is doing the describing.

这里有一个比喻,在他描述的东西和,他即将描述的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was describing the child Tiny Tim in the book "A Christmas Carol."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

In contrast, if we're taking the wave function and describing it in terms of n, l, m sub l, and now also, the spin, what are we describing here?

相反，如果我们考虑一个波函数,然后用ｎ，ｌ，ｍ小标ｌ,还有自旋，我们描述的是什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Profanity.Swearing. These are all ways of describing words people consider socially unacceptable.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

And this panic attack screws worse and worse until he saw a therapist who ended up describing in medication.

恐慌症造成的压力越来越大,直到他去见了心理医生,进行了药物治疗，恐慌症才得以治愈。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That is another way of describing someone who is not very brave.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

There's almost a danger here in listening to it too long or describing it in too much detail and the danger seems or what Milton thinks of as the peril seems to involve the problem of time.

听太久的话几乎都会有危险,描写过细的话,又会花费很多时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Many stories are instructional, describing the best ways to hunt, fish or gather roots.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Absolutely, what you were describing is this western romantic ideal of nature of wilderness as being the beautiful sunset, the gorgeous view, the beautiful day.

当然，你所说的,就是西方对于自然和荒野的浪漫想法,他们理想中的自然就是美丽的日落，壮丽的景象，美好的天色。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Pakistani authorities say security forces detained Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan and four other key militant commanders in what they are describing "a successful" military raid just outside the main town of Mingora in the Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The regions that are necessary for describing what the protein is like are called exons, the regions that are not are called introns.

因此我们把编码蛋白质的区域,称为外显子,而把不参与编码蛋白的区域称为内含子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

When you're falling to the surface of the Earth, you are describing a problem of constant acceleration.

当你讨论下落问题时,你在描述一个加速度恒定的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

What that means, in a stored-program computer, is that I can provide to the computer a sequence of instructions describing the process I want it to execute.

它的意思就是说，我可以给一个存储程序计算机,提供一系列,描述我希望,能执行的过程的指令。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If it's not, then you're going to have trouble describing it using thermodynamic properties.

如果它不是，那么用热力学性质去,描述它就要有麻烦了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Hanson says and I'm quoting him, "The real beginning in the West of individual property holding on a large scale is what he is describing."

我引述汉森说的话,他所描述的是西方私有财产,广泛存在的真正开始

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He gives an example of a young woman, who was describing a man that she liked, and she said, I like him very much, I find him very probable.

他举了一个年轻小姐的例子,一位小姐描述她喜欢的男子,她说道,我太喜欢他了,我觉得他有很大可能

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To help you know sort of ahead of time quickly what those views are, I want to start by describing a set of views that many of you probably believe.

让你们稍微提早点儿知道,那些观点是什么，我想要从描述它开始,可能你们有些人会相信。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When we study our average,we are describing our lives.

当我们研究平均水平，我们只是描述日常生活。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We haven't finished describing the game.

这个博弈我们还没描述完整

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选