You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And the terms of the expression change, the parties to the conflict change, the sights change, but the controversy goes on.

也许人们对这种冲突的表述有所改变，利益双方有所改变，文化景观有所改变，但这种争议永远存在。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Right, having done that, we can certainly get to more complicated things, so for example, suppose I look at that expression.

好，说完了这一点，我们就可以讲些复杂些的话题了，例如，假设我看到了这个表达式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

It leads to expression of new genes, production of new proteins, and a change in a behavior of the cell.

这导致新基因表达,新蛋白合成,细胞行为发生改变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

They misattribute that, what might be anger, what might even be aggression and violence, to an expression of love.

他们错误地把，可能的愤怒，侵犯或暴力，解释为爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

VOA: special.2011.05.29

But you can write it down It's a concept that links itself to a literary or verbal written expression.

但是你们可以将负二的平方用笔写下来,那是种概念，能将其自身,与文学或文字书面的表达连接起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

So we can now take this expression and rewrite it under the condition of du is equal to zero.

我们利用这个公式,并在du=0的条件下将它重写。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

In Machiavelli, we have what we have come to call "modernity," given its first and most powerful expression.

因为马奇亚维利,我们才有，“现代“这个词汇“,因为它从此有了最初与最有力的表述。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

But we get tired of saying that long expression, so we're going to call that a Newton, right?

但我们不想说得这么复杂,所以把这个单位称为"牛顿",对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"These freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

Well, well and good, but at the same time, if that's the case, and if there is this extraordinary emphasis on the importance of the expression of genius, you can see what's beginning to happen.

很好，但与此同时，如果过于重视那些,天才作家的表达，你可以看到它所引起的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.

很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We use the expression to clown around when we talk about someone playing tricks and making jokes.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

When we see that, when we look on the web, we see that expression of both a hope for something better that the web seems to represent for them and we see that sense of furious anxiety about what school classroom actually means to these kids.

当我们认真看那些网站的时候，我们看到了这样一种表达,希望更好的生活,仿佛只有网络能够提供给他们,同时我们还看到了那种狂躁不安,困惑于到底学校的课堂对这些孩子们意味什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Nothing much can stop it. Americans still use the expression "to bulldoze" but mainly in political situations.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

OK, he also, let me see, he also, lastly, to close us out, he also developed an analytical expression for the energy of that covalent bond, which is really what we want.

好的，他也，让我看看，他也，最终接近我们的，他也发明了一种分析方式,对于共价键能量来说，这是我们真正想要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Like Helen Martins, outsider artists add new life, imagination and skill to the world of creative expression.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

This tends to be an awkward expression or term that is used by historians.

这个表达并不准确,但是仍被历史学家使用

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Now, with this in hand, what I want to do is, and in Firm 2 I have a similar expression, what I want to do is, I want to figure out the Nash Equilibrium of this game.

知道它了以后,因为公司2的表达式也是相似的,接下来我们就可以尝试找出纳什均衡了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So the take away is that if the user actually gives me two or three or four or whatever, this is this expression "is n less than 1" is going to evaluate to false if it's actually two or three or four or whatever.

所以先不管用户实际上给我,3，4还是其他数，这个表达式,“是否n小于1“将被评估为错误的,如果输入额是2，3，4或其它的数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选