Cold weather is most likely to damage or kill plants that do not have enough moisture.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Do you have a visceral sense, "oh, don't do that"? If you do, you were probably taught, like me: "never, never damage a book.

你们想发自肺腑地说一句：“哦不，不要这样“吗，如果是，那你们和我从小被教育的一样：绝对不要损坏书本。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You could do a lot of shopping and a lot of damage to your bank account on Fifth Avenue.

你可以在第五大道买很多东西，刷爆你的卡。

小心超额消费 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Yet people often do not get medical help until the damage already has been done.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

My guess is that eating cockroaches probably won't do internal damage, eating too much of foods like this certainly will.

我猜蟑螂也不会在你的体内搞破坏,不过吃太多奇多这种食品就不太好了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But the Union sailors soon discovered that their cannons could do no damage,either.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And so, from the study of brain damage and the study of— we can gain some understanding of what different parts of the brain do.

通过对脑损伤的研究,我们可以了解到大脑不同区域的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Union sailors cheered. The cannons of the Virginia could do no damage!

VOA: special.2009.09.10

When the Swedes get into the act, Gustavus Adolphus brings this huge old Swedish army down and they do a lot of damage, too, and people are absolutely being devastated.

当瑞典人加入战局时,瑞典国王阿道夫率领庞大,且久经战阵的军队南下,他们给中欧造成了巨大的破坏,人民饱受战争之苦

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These,however, did not do much damage to the Confederate guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

but the people who suffered most from the damage in the lowland areas in the city who happen to be people in color have nothing to do with the decisions made on these wetlands.

但在这场灾难中,生活在城市低地处的人们,遭受了最为严重的损失,而这群人又恰好是,对湿地有关决策,无从置喙的有色人种。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

And with higher sea levels, heavy rains and massive tides known as storm surges, which often accompany tropical storms, can do unexpected damage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

For women, the good news is that that fat below the waist tends to do less physical damage than the fact above the waist that men more often have.

对女性来说,好消息是,腰以下的脂肪堆积对身体造成的损害比,男性的腰以上的脂肪要少

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Obama administration is clearly under pressure to do more to help contain the damage, and prevent another such disaster in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"But the amount of damage and destabilization in the country that we are starting to see - this is what the Americans do not understand."

VOA: standard.2009.05.12