By selling it to the government, the mining interests hoped to keep the price of silver from falling.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

And this is useful because if you're actually writing a program that's interactive or that you want to change overtime much like you would a game, hopefully, the game is not going to have the bad guys, for instance, always standing in the same place or the rocks or whatever it is falling from the sky in the same place 'cause it would very quickly become a very tedious game.

这是很有用的，因为如果,写一个交互的程序或者,希望每次游戏都不一样，我们希望，游戏中的坏人物，别老是站在同一个地方或者同一块石头上,或者从天空中同样的位置落下,因为这立刻会使游戏变得乏味。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I won't sing for you or give you my Italian, but these famous lines, "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down" and so on, these come from the conclusion to The Waste Land.

我不会给你唱出来或者秀我的意大利文，但是这些著名的词句，“伦敦桥在倒塌“,“在倒塌，在倒塌“，以及种种，这些是从《荒原》的结束语中来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The volunteers placed the plants about five centimeters into the soil to prevent rising and falling water levels from pulling them out.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

You feel heavy and it reads more because the poor spring not only has to support you from falling through the floor, but also accelerate you counter to what gravity wants to do.

你感到自己变重以及读数增加,因为现在弹簧不仅要支撑你,不让你掉下来,还要抵消重力的作用让你加速

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And the iron monster was sunk to keep it from falling into Union hands.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

When the stock market is going up they think that -they increasingly think that the stock market is just the best investment, until when it starts falling, then they start retracting from that.

当股票市场上行时,越来越多的人会觉得,股票是最佳投资选择,而当股市下跌时,人们纷纷从股市中撤出

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Some died from falling off the bridge or from being struck by equipment.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

And if I think back to my own childhood again, not that that was the glory days by any means, but I mean people weren't falling over hour after hour from dehydration because they didn't have a water bottle with them.

如果我回忆一下自己的童年,不是说我的童年有多光辉灿烂,而是我想说当时人们也没有因脱水而倒下,而因为他们没有随身携带水壶

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If a climber slips, a rope can stop him from falling.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

So anything that goes from a higher energy level to 2 is going to be falling within the Balmer series, which is in the visible range of the spectrum.

任何更高能级到2能级2,都是属于Balmer系，它在可见光谱中。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Many have cuts and broken bones from falling debris and burns from the intense heat of the explosion.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

So，the point is,every object falling under gravity is given by the same formula, but there are many, many objects that can have many histories, all falling under gravity, and what's different from one object and the other object is, when was it dropped, from what height, and with what initial speed.

关键是,每一个受重力作用下落的物体,都有同样的表达式,但是各个受重力作用下落的物体,都有不同的初始条件,所以它们的区别在于,下落时刻,下落高度和初始速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The number of rockets from Gaza falling on the town has dropped sharply since the war.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02