From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

As much as I might talk on stage twice a week it turns out that it's really by doing and really by diving in and getting your hands dirty that you really take away the course's lessons.

我一周上两次课,就算说得再多，也不如你们亲自动手,通过真正的深入研究,才能学到知识。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One of the discomforts, one of the reasons that I think so many people in society and even in this class are uncomfortable when it comes to computers and intimidated by technology and kind of throw up their hands when things go wrong that you don't understand is frankly not necessarily your fault.

当我想到在社会中，即使在这个班级上,有那么多的人,使用计算机时是不舒服的,他们被这种科技吓到了，束手无策,当发生故障时，你也不知道，其实,这也不是你的过错。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One was built by the hands of many men before there was industrial building equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

And if you want to join the political game, you must be prepared to get your hands dirty, ? and what Machiavelli means by that, ? how he comes to this problem.

如果你想参与到政治游戏中去，你必须做好弄脏你的手的准备，马基雅维利这么说是什么意思，他是如何谈到这个问题的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One man wanted to know if California could get its hands on money from the president's stimulus package turned down by other states.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

When Thoreau sits on his little stool outside his cabin at Walden Pond and he hears the train go by over the ridge, and he puts his hands over his ears he doesn't want to hear it-- he's representing something.

在瓦尔登湖的木屋外,梭罗坐在他的小凳子上,他听到火车的声音穿越桥梁,他捂住了耳朵,他一点也不想听到这个声音,他代表着某种想法

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Several automakers introduced new models. And a pay hike announced by the government for its employees with retrospective effect put money in the hands of many people.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

We've gotten, over the last two decades in particular, very sophisticated about taking pictures inside the body allowing doctors to look inside the body and predict things about our internal physiology that they couldn't predict just by looking at us or putting their hands on us.

特别是在近二十年当中,我们对体内造影已经十分熟悉,它使医生能够看到身体内部,并预测我们体内的生理变化,而仅仅是通过,视诊或者触诊是不能预测这些变化的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Reports from the first round of voting detailed a number of violent attacks by the Taliban, including rocket fire and the amputations of ink-stained fingers on voters' hands.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选