They would put out sacrifices of food and light fires to keep the spirits from doing any harm to the living.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

We are turned away from the light.

只会离光明越来越远。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

OK. In the length of time it takes for the light to get from that bulb to the table, this machine processes two operations.

好，在灯光从灯泡到,桌子的这段时间内，电脑已经进行了两次运算了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said he could see the flash of light from Confederate guns along a line a kilometer long.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

And instead of having the electron giving off energy as a photon, instead now the electron is going to take in energy from light and move up to that higher level.

与电子以光子形式施放能量不同,我们现在要从光中,获得能量到一个更高的能级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Hubble said the light that appeared to come from nebulae really came from stars near the nebulae.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

This is a story that is predominantly in Genesis 2 and trickles into Genesis 3 and I'm going to look at it mostly in isolation from the first account.I'm going to be looking at it in light of an important parallel.

这个故事在《创世纪》2，3章中占据很重要的地位,我采用脱离对第一个故事的描述方法,将这两个故事，放在同等重要的位置上来解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Doppler effect explains changes in the length of light waves or sound waves as they move toward you or away from you.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

And so if you say de Broglie's name to many physicists, the tagline they associate with de Broglie is "matter waves" as distinct from light waves.

如果你向很多物理学家提及到德布罗意，他们觉得德布罗意中心思想就是,是物质波不同于光波。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In the dark centers of his eyes you can see the light from Arbus' camera.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

If you're a doctor and you've got a patient who's running away from you at the speed of light, you'll know what to do.

如果你是个医生,你的一个病人以光速逃跑了,你就知道该怎么办了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Finally,a single ray of light shot from out and fell full upon the vulture eye.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

However dimly that light came through to you, suffering so acutely from the rough denial of the very existence of American ideals, part of it must have come through American delineation of American characters.

不管遇到何种艰险，哪怕翻山越岭,哪怕趟水滚沙，这些都需要,生动的角色来表现出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Ultraviolet light from the sun changes a substance in the skin into vitamin D.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Light and heat from the sun can change chemicals in the skin.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

If I consume Bud Light, then I have to pay for the Bud Light, I think it typically costs less, the price, the raw price is less than Guinness but I also pay an additional cost from the fact that Bud Light, when I drink it, causes me "disutility": we'll put it politely like that.

如过我买百威淡啤酒,我必须要支付百威淡啤酒的价格,我想它会便宜点,原材料的价格比吉尼斯低,但我同样要支付附加成本因为百威淡啤酒,当我喝它的时候,味道一般,我表达得委婉一点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A pure white light seemed to come from deep inside the diamond.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

A gig is 10 to the 9, so it does two operations in the length of time it takes light to get from one foot off the table down to the table. That's amazing.

因此光行进一英尺的,时间内电脑可以,进行两次基本运算,这太神奇了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is because the light we see from the sun is white.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

So that's the important take-away message from this slide. If we think about these different types of lights, microwave light, if it's absorbed by a molecule, is a sufficient amount of frequency and energy to get those molecules to rotate. That, of course, generates heat, so that's how your microwaves work.

重要的信息，如果我们看看,这些不同种类的光，微波,如果被分子吸收，它的频率和能量可以,使分子转动,这当然的，会产生热量,这就是你们微波炉的工作原理。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

People who aren't connected to the electric grid often get their light from candles or burning wood.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

And this is a very fast speed, of course, it's about 700 million miles per hour. So, one way to put that in perspective is to think about how long it takes for a light beam to get from earth to the moon. Does anyone have any guesses? Eight seconds, that sounds good.

当然这是一个非常快的速度，它大约是每小时7亿英里,为了更形象化，我们,看看光从地球到月球,需要多少时间，你们猜猜是多少？,8秒，猜的不错。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The commander of the British Army's 19th Light Brigade, Brigadier Tim Radford, just returned from Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

We give you a very rich table of constants that's got all kinds of things from the mass of the electron to the speed of light, and all this stuff to the requisite number of significant figures. And, in addition, you are allowed to take in one sheet of paper, 8 1/2 x 11 one sheet 8 1/2 x 11, you can write anything you want on it.

我们会给你一个很详实的常量表,将会涉及很多方面，从元素的电子,到光速，这些内容到有效数字的定量,还有，你们可以带来一张纸，纸的规格是，可以写任何你们想写的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Also included is the title track from Queen Latifah's album of jazz standards "Travelin' Light."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

It is not far from where remains of the oldest known human ancestors, Luci and Ardi were found, shedding light on the origins of humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

In light of threats from the Israelis to block the flotilla of ships, Zehra Ozturk says she and her fellow pro-Palestinian activists from Turkey are not thinking about a blockade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"And so he then went back and worked on technology adaptation and designed very low-cost, small affordable solar panels with fitted bulbs, maybe one or two bulbs per household, made sure that the bulbs could be moved from room to room, depending where people wanted the light,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18