"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

And I'll just point out here also, this is a conversion factor you'll use quite frequently -- many of you, quite on accident, will memorize it as you use it over and over again.

你们会经常用到，所以你们可能,会不小心记住它的值，但我们并不会在,任何考试中。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

and we like log algorithms, because they're really fast. A typical characteristic of a log algorithm is a pro-- or sorry, an algorithm where it reduces the size of the problem by a constant factor.

并且我们也很喜欢对数算法,因为它很快,对数算法的典型特性是高速，哦，抱歉，是他能以常数因子的速度,降低问题的大小，很明显。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The family left Russia in 1919. So, the revolution, I think, starts in 1917. And things are quite complex in those early days, so there's more than one anti-czarist factor.

他们在1919年乘飞机离开的，改革，应该始于1917年，早期的时候非常复杂,不止是因为反对沙皇。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In his new book, "The 5-Factor World Diet", he ranks the world's top 10 healthiest nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The pre-factor embodies all the electrostatics.

指前因子校正了所有的静电力。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In order to attract the rabbit's own stem cells to re-grow the cartilage, channels in the scaffold were filled with a growth factor protein.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Well, there are many factors, but one important factor is, the rise of the Internet has competed with -people used to buy The Wall Street Journal to get data like this.

其实有很多因素,但是最主要一点是,来自网络的竞争,人们过去买《华尔街日报》来获取这些数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And the fact that all of our visas are fingerprint,bio-metric fingerprints based on ensuring that that person's identity is proven is a very important factor in this,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

It goes - going through this process of amplifying divisions, every division increasing the number of cells by a factor of two and these cells becoming more differentiated around the way.

它经历了一系列扩增性的分裂过程,每次分化,细胞数目都翻一番,而在此过程中细胞分化得更成熟

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"If we refuse to take into account the full costs of our fossil fuel addiction - if we don't factor in the environmental costs and the national security costs and the true economic costs - we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14