"If you were to design the perfect plug for a child's airway, you couldn't do much better than a hot dog tip."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Because the pond is deep enough for an adult to wade into but too deep for a child to stand.

这个池塘不深，一个成年人足以趟过,然而小孩子却无法站立。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's not the same as it was when I was growing up and it was almost, for a child, it felt scary.

它现在的模样和我小时候的不一样了。那时候，对于一个孩子来说，这个地方很可怕。

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For example,husbands and wives in some ethnic groups are tested for the possibility of having a child with Tay-Sachs.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Now, that's actually a difficult question to ask-- to answer for a child, but I tried my best to give him an answer.

向一个孩子解释这个问题其实挺困难的，但我还是尽力给了他一个答案。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Literal punishment: for example, in the Code of Hammurabi, where someone's ox kills a child, then the ox owner's child is killed.

例如，在汉穆拉比法典里，如果某人的牛,杀死了一个小孩，那么这头牛的主人的小孩也应处死。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For example,a child might offer something sweet to her little brother and then take it away when he reaches for it.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

In the same way that being a child is a phase you can go through for a period of time and then cease to be.

就像是作为儿童存在一样也是一个阶段,会经历一段时间而后停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She takes a job as a babysitter for a woman and her husband who have adopted a child of mixed race.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Child-bearing may be inevitable for women but the rearing of the child will be the responsibility of the community or at least a class of guardians and common daycare centers.

生育可能无可避免地需要女性,但接下的养育,将是社群的职责,或至少是一个守护阶级,还要有共同的日托中心。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

But now if you have a twenty-ounce bottle, your cue for when the drinking event ends is completely different than when I was a child, and its two and a half times different then when I was child, and so people have become calibrated to what difference sizes are.

但现在如果你喝了一瓶二十盎司可乐,会觉得现在的饮用量,和我小时候已经完全不同了,是我小时候的2.5倍,人们已经校正了其中差异的大小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Well,all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

And the question then is, " "What if a child was raised by a single parent, for example?"

问题是，“要是孩子成长于单亲家庭会怎样“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

In other words, the sacrificial cult was primarily a vehicle for worshipers' expression of a wide range of emotions: joy over the birth of a child, thankfulness for a good harvest and so on.

换句话说，献祭仪式从根本上来说,是表达崇拜者各种各样情感的一个途径：,新生儿带来的喜悦，对好收成的感谢，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For example, a small child will experience health problems or die much quicker than an adult will.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In "Maternal Caress," a few simple lines express the deep love of a mother for her child.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

I study child development for a living and I'm interested in several questions.

我主要研究儿童的发展,我对很多问题都感兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In "Baby Reaching for an Apple" Cassatt shows a mother gently holding her child as the baby looks with wonder at the fruit.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And the problem for Freud is premature weaning of a child.

在弗洛伊德看来,问题就出在孩子过早断奶上面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The idea for it came when a mother told her that there were no summer camps where she could send her disabled child.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

For here the child is purely a physical creature.

在此阶段,儿童只是个纯粹的自然生物

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And Thanksgiving also, in my early days when I was a child, the kids would all get to play, maybe we hadn't seen each other for a while.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

So for instance, if a child says to his mother, "I loves you, Mommy," it's a very unusual parent who would say, "Oh, no. The verb agreement is mistaken.

例如,如果孩子对妈妈说,"我爱你,妈妈",很少有家长会说,"不对,动词一致性错了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Many parents organize a party for their child around a theme.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

But after the accident he was fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity, manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice, a child in his intellectual capacities and manifestations.

但事故后，他变得善变和不逊，沉溺于使用不敬的言语，很少对他的同事顺从，对约束和建议不耐烦，他的智能和临床表现是孩子的水平。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Similarly, if you're dealing with immature humans and you want your child to get you a beer, you can't just sit, wait for the kid to give you a beer and uncap the bottle " and say, "Excellent. Good. Hugs."

类似的，如果你要训练的是未成年人,如果你想让你的孩子帮你拿一罐啤酒，你就不能只是坐着，等孩子把啤酒拿给你,然后你打开瓶盖,说，“太棒了，来抱一下“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选