but the fact is they are intelligent, ambitious,motivated and to be just a pawn in the story of a whole bunch of men fighting it out,rolling around and getting down-and-dirty, while there you are just a vision in a tight cat-suit is just a boring thing."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Not necessarily thinking about getting down every word that I say on paper, remembering everything, memorizing everything.

而不是忙于记录我说的每一个字，记住每一个词，背诵每一句话。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The operating system still finds it but this process of getting some of your files bits from here, some from here, some from here, induces a potential slow down.

操作系统根据文件块的地址,仍旧能够找到这一整个文件，这也导致了潜在速度变慢。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

As the mulch breaks down, it provides material that keeps the soil from getting hard.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Old ones were getting pretty bald. Well, probably be late for dinner.I gotta head down to Mason County.

VOA: standard.other

The spring is getting squashed because you are pushing down and the floor is pushing up.

弹簧现在被压缩了,因为你在往下压,地面在往上推

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

I'm getting--we're all lowering-- all of our shares are going down by the same amount.

我们的分子都在降低,我们的股票都降低了相同数量

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Obama administration is engagedin a review of U.S.strategy in Afghanistan, and worries on the left about the U.S.getting militarily bogged down will be part of the broader political debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Big recessions have ended in November 1982, just a little more than 25 years ago, and since then the policy of getting inflation down And it's also not just the United States.

较严重的在1982年11月已触底回升，也就是25年前不久，从那开始，政策就一直维持了低通胀,不仅仅是美国。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

What we've done is taken this pitch and played it all the way down an octave below it so we're actually getting back to this configuration of the pitch right next to it, and we could--then of course we could go down one more step and we would get the octave, which is a duplication of two-to-one.

我们所做的是固定一个音高，向下一路弹奏一个八度,所以事实上我们又回到了与这个固定音高相邻的音上，我们当然也可以向下再弹一组，然后得到这个八度，这其实就是两个八度对一个八度的重复。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I just doubled the indentation each time so you can see it. So each successive call, notice what's happening. The argument is getting reduced. And we're going another level in. When we get down to this point, we're calling it with just a string of length one.

因此每次成功调用注意它的过程,我们的命题不断简化，而且我们不断深入嵌套,当我们走到这一步的时候,我们就是在调用它处理，仅有一个元素的字符串了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Reagan gave Volker tremendous support in getting this inflation rate down And um..the... Carter didn't give that much support Carter appointed Reagan, ... so he gotta get the... ...appointed the Volker course.

里根一直力挺沃尔克，通胀率才得以降低,但是卡特就不同了,话又说回来，卡特任命了里根，也就相当于。,。。。认同了沃尔克路线。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Anyway, your loan-to-value ratio is getting pretty precarious because your house is now down 30% in value; your loan-to-value ratio, if we were to give you $5,000, would be something like 90%.

你的贷款价值比变得很不安全,因为你的房子已经贬值30%,如果我们借给你5000美金,你的贷款价值比率在90%左右

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, you probably don't want to pick any point down here, because you're not getting anything by picking a point down there because you could have a better point by just moving it up here.

你不会选择这里以下的任意一点，因为你的回报不是最优的,上面这一点会使你有更好的回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选