South Dakota takes its nickname, "The Coyote State," from an animal that thinks flickertails are good to eat!

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Make sure you have batteries that are in a good state of charge in your calculator.

确保你的计算器电池,处在一个良好的状态。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It's not a good thing if you're just looping and checking some condition, but never actually changing the state of the world.

这不是一个好事情，如果你只是循环,检查一些条件，但是永远不要改变世界上的国家。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Experts at Penn State University have a simple answer: When the undesirable qualities outweigh the good qualities.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Yeah. Tell us about the state of the Afghan national army I have heard the good thing about the progress that it has made there.

能说说阿富汗国民军官兵的情况吗,我听说了我们取得了一些进步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Experts at Penn State University have a simple answer: When its undesirable qualities outweigh its good qualities.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The libertarian says it may be a good thing if people wear seatbelts but that should be up to them and the state, the government, has no business coercing them, us, to wear seatbelts by law.

自由主义者说，系安全带也许是件好事,但这应由人们自己作主,政府没有资格,用法律来强迫人们系安全带。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The new state governments did many good things.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

No matter what its constitution was, no matter how these differed from one another, the idea was that the state has to make good men and that for a city to be good, the men must be good.

不论宪法体制如何,不论世间千变万化,其主旨始终围绕着,政府必须培育良民,而只有公民优秀,才能让城市更加美好

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选