Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

This quantity is exactly zero for an ideal gas and we'll discover why eventually it has to do with what we mean by an ideal gas it turns out.

对理想气体它是零,这点我们接下来会知道是,为什么，这与为什么我们叫它理想气体有关。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So, Columbus gets the glory of discovering America but it's up to debate if he actually did discover it.

所以，哥伦布获得了发现美洲的殊荣，但对于这个问题，人们仍然争论不休。

哥伦布的故事 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Professor Taylor says his team used this method to discover that butterflies depend on information about the Earth's magnetic fields.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- The truth about Emily Dickinson has been difficult to discover.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

George Carmack,Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie were the first men to discover a great amount of gold in the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

And what we'll discover is that when we allow the gas to expand reversibly, we get the most work. This is neat.

最后将发现,当气体可逆膨胀的时候，对外做功最大。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But one day you go to the store and discover that the price is more than you can pay.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

And I'm hoping that today's lecture will help you learn faster. The nice thing, is once you learn to debug programs, you will discover it's a transferable skill.

但是突然成果就会显现出来,你们现在正在慢慢学着呢，我希望今天的课程能帮助你们学的快一点，好的一方面是，一旦你学会了如何调试程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I'm trying to travel as much as possible and discover the city I've been living in for three years."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

And to discover the intelligence of babies we have to ourselves be pretty smart in developing different techniques.

要想探究婴儿的智力,我们就必须足够聪明,发明出不同的研究技术

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The hope,she says,is to discover what college graduates have really learned, and how ready they are to compete in the global marketplace.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Tolstoy draws a highly realistic and believable portrait of somebody who is surprised to discover that he's mortal.

托尔斯泰刻画了一个高度真实可信的,一个对自己的必死感到惊讶的人的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

In the 1960s, to have a protagonist go into the world and discover this incredibly complex set of patterns, and to have that protagonist be a housewife, was very much playing against type.

在60年代让一个主角深入世界,去探索它难以置信的复杂，而且将其设置为一个家庭主妇，是与常规背道而驰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And,they can discover the time of death to see if it matches information given by suspects and witnesses.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

You're out there in Sicily and you discover, of course, that you don't have all of the things that you used to have available to you, that used to be made let us say in Corinth.

你身在西西里岛发现,你过去在科林斯所能得到的东西,在这里并非一应俱全

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As he talked, I realized there was something in this room that he wanted me to discover.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

It has to be part of a theory, and then trying to adjust it so it can be incorporated, you discover anti-particles.

要想使理论合理,然后试着去调整,使之和实际相符,结果就找到了反粒子

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I wanted to discover what it was, so I brought two bottles of wine to his apartment.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

So we would see resets after two years to a much higher level and some of these people would discover that they can't afford them.

因此我们会看到两年之后,当利率提到一个很高的水平时,其中一部分人会发现他们根本负担不起

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Visitors also discover a funny side to Abraham Lincoln who was known for his sense of humor.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

I'm still at that point where I'm trying to discover my own style,

我还在努力尝试发现自己的风格，

和设计专业的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They hope to discover new evidence about what happened to the young mother and her baby.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

and talking to other people ,I thought that is a very healthy thing to do and as Zvi happened to live in my dorm and I thought it would be a great opportunity to exchange ideas, and to get to discover more.

和其他人聊天，我觉得这是,非常健康的事情,正好Zvi和我一个寝室,我觉得,我们有机会交换想法，了解更多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But when the telescope reached orbit, NASA scientists were shocked to discover that the costly mirror of the telescope had not been shaped correctly.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

discover aspects of their personality that they want to develop further

发掘他们自己想要的性格

治疗心灵 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I did not abandon my interest in politics to discover how it might be bettered in other respects, and I was perpetually awaiting my opportunity.

我并未放弃对政治的兴趣,仍想探索,如何能更有效地管治，我也一直都在等待我的机会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选