"It may cost one or two seats to be lost in tough districts, but I think once people really find out what this bill does and how good a job he's done and the Democrats have done, I think they may very well pick up some seats."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

But sometimes he had a tendency to pick people whom he liked a lot but were totally unqualified, military commanders who weren't very good.

但有时他倾向于选择,他很喜欢但完全不合格的人,例如不很得力的军事指挥者

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Controlling quality because cloned animals are all genetically identical and so you wouldn't have variability that way, and so potentially you could have - pick an individual that has a really good quality meat and always reproduce that same thing.

克隆动物食品的品质具有可控性,是因为它们有相同的基因,所以动物个体的品质没有差异,所以假设你能够挑选出一个这样的个体,它的肉质非常好,就能利用该技术反复制造,完全相同的肉类产品

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But how carefully you estimate will determine in part how good your ultimate records are so please try to be as careful as you can, and then pick the closest option if you can't find the exact food that you're eating at that time.

你估计的仔细程度,在某种程度上,也会决定最终结果的准确性,所以请尽可能谨慎,如果找不到完全对应的食物,请选择和你当时所吃食物最接近的选项

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I think the book has a fairly good description of it so if you don't pick up everything in the lecture, hopefully you've read that beforehand, and you can go back to it afterwards and read about things that didn't make sense.

我认为课本对DNA表述很详细,所以在课堂上无需面面俱到,希望你们之前做过预习,课后你们可以通过复习,弄懂那些不甚理解的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选