These pictures show young readers what led Darwin to form his great discovery: the evolution of species through natural selection.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

These are setups of pieces on the chess board that have particular solutions. And they're very complex, and they have a kind of aesthetic form to them.

象棋有些设置是有专门的,解决方法的，很复杂，它们有一种美学在里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm using exactly the same form to reduce this.

我用的同样的方法来减少问题的规模。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When melting snow-crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice, called sleet.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

Let me disclaim, too, we're by no means perfect so the Harvard courses APP that a lot of you used on the web to shop for courses, we recently sent out a form to get feedback from everyone because we don't doubt that it was imperfect the first time around, but we're going to iterate and make amends with that.

我不是说，我不是说要完美,你们大部分使用哈佛大学课程APP来在网上选课,我们最近给你们发了一个表单，从你们那里,得到反馈，因为我不怀疑,第一次时它是有瑕疵的,但是我们将反复地道歉。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So Muslims believe that Koran has maintained its original form since it was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad, 14 centuries ago.

穆斯林认为自从《可兰经》,在14世纪展示给先知穆罕默德起,就保持了最原始的形式。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Then they are mixed with water. After the water has been removed, the flat,thin form remaining is permitted to dry.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Methane, there are certainly some solid bonds there, but breaking those to form CO2 and water, well it's worth it, right, energetically.

酒精中的确含有很强的化学键，但是打断这些化学键然后生成二氧化碳和水，从能量上来看是值得的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They helped cause angry whites to form the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that terrorized blacks for years to come.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It's a way of thinking about form that has more to do with individuality than it does with convention.

思考这种形式的方法，与传统习惯相比,与个性更有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One is based on Scrabble, the board game where players try to form words from letters with different point values.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

Talk of smiles is just a way of talking about the ability of the body to smile, to form a smile.

我们会谈到笑只是为了表达,肉体具有笑的能力,能够微笑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Within around thirty years the Census Bureau expects racial and ethnic minorities to form the majority of America's population.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

There are two possible ways of reacting to what deconstruction calls "undecidability," that is to say the impossibility of our really being able to form a grounded opinion about anything.

对解构主义所说的“不可判定性“可以有两种反应,也就是说，我们实在无法,也不能够对任何事物有任何根本的看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It was also illegal for any person or organization to form a monopoly -- to get control of a whole industry.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But look at the lattice energy, the Madelung energy component is huge which tells you that when ions form they really want to continue to glom onto one another and form that giant crystal.

看看晶格能，马德龙能很大,这告诉我们，当形成离子是,它们如果要继续的话,需要从另外一方夺取电子，形成巨大的晶体。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

When melting snow crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice,called sleet.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

We also have six spots available to form hydrogen bonds, so we can go ahead and fill in those electrons as well.

我们还有6个地方可以供氢原子成键，我们可以继续把这些电子填充进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Leaders of minority groups including Hispanics and Muslims are urging their communities to complete the form so they are counted.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

This means the cells that are red here have all the information to form the major cell types of the inner ear.

这就是说，用红色标示的细胞具有构成,内耳主体细胞类型的全部信息。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Leaders of the Northern Alliance decided the time was right to form one party to represent all farmers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

That motivated insurance salesmen to form long-term relationships with the families that he was insuring and to keep them from canceling their policies.

这种机制促使保险推销员与客户,建立起长期合作关系,以防止客户取消保单

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Goldwyn Company then joined with Metro Pictures and Louis B.Mayer Productions to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, known as MGM.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

In the original city when they had to get permission to form a colony, what group of people was it that they gave permission?

在母邦里当他们要获得许可,开拓殖民地时,他们是要从哪一群体中得到许可

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It urged them to form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

It separates those duplicated chromosomes to two sides of the cell, physically separates them, and the cell itself pinches off to form two new cells.

双倍化的染色体,被分别拉向细胞的两边,物理性的分离了,细胞本身中央凹陷形成两个新细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That was one year after the union of Ireland with England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.

因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The regime again refers above all to a form of government.

但政体仍凌驾各种定义,意指一种政府形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选