Robert Fulton would say for the rest of his life that he had no idea why he said such a thing.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

He did have this thing about his appearance.

他确实对他的外表很注重。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

In this scene, he's trying to convince an old school friend of his, played by Joseph Cotten, to join this thing.

故事走向,是他试图说服一位老同学，由，Joseph，Cotten，扮演，加入这起勾当。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That was the sort of thing that made a young man with broadcasting stars in his eyes .

VOA: special.2009.08.16

So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As soon as he entered his rooms, he saw that everything was perfect-- except for one thing.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

But, you know, any professor who stands before you should say the same thing about his or her subject. If they don't believe that, they shouldn't be teaching.

但是，你知道，所有站在你们面前的老师,可能都会这样介绍他的课程,如果他们不那样相信着，那他们就不应该教那门课了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But when he felt the warm life under his fingers, he could not kill this beautiful thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

But he could only wave his hands as to how this physical thing in the world could connect to an immaterial mind.

但他只能用挥手这样的动作,来展示现实的生理客体,是如何与无形心理相联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He called the trial the hardest thing he had ever done in his life.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

His contemporaries are doing a kind of thing with their representation of the birth of Christ that Milton seems carefully to have avoided.

他的同龄人都在描述基督的诞生,而这正是弥尔顿极力避免的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

It's the sort of thing he's given lip service to, no doubt,over the course of his life.

他非常震撼，虽然他终其一生，口头上说相信死亡，这毫无疑问。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

From then on, music would be the most important thing in his life.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

I think that's the real thing we should talk about, not the size of his penthouse.

我认为这才是我们需要谈论的,而不是他的顶层套房有多大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

And he does the same thing, in fact, to those around him, famously to his lover, Maude Gonne, who becomes Helen of Troy in "No Second Troy"and in other poems.

他也这样表现他周围的人，著名的就要数他的爱人，昴德·冈昂，她在没有第二个特洛伊,和其他诗歌中化身为海伦。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

His death is the worst thing that could happen for the South."

VOA: special.2009.12.31

His shield, in addition to being a defensive thing, is also potentially an offensive weapon.

他的盾牌,除了能提供防御和保护之外,同样也是一个潜在的有力武器

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Ezra Koenig says that to his generation Contra means one thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There's an interesting anecdote about Strauss, and that is that on his deathbed he said to his daughter, Alice -He said, "Alice, it's the funniest thing.

这里有件关于施特劳斯的趣闻轶事,在他临终之时,他和女儿爱丽丝说,他和女儿说"爱丽丝,有件事太好笑了"

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"That's not the only thing you've outgrown." Worst of all,to his beloved Fiona, he is a complete stranger.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

So her best thing now is to successfully meet David at The Bourne Ultimatum and David's preferences are Player 2's preferences, so his favorite thing is to successfully meet at The Good Shepherd.

她最希望和大卫一起看《谍影重重》,大卫扮演参与人2,他最想和妮娜一起看《特工风云》

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's certainly not a nice moment. It is not a gentlemanly thing to do to steal the spotlight from all of his peers."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It's a good thing Nathan Gelder knew the universal sign for choking when he was having lunch last year with his friend Kaiden Condos.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

and his name is the French word, full light so his Monsieur Lumir. the kind of thing ? you got it?

他的名字是一个法语词汇，意为正午,法语为Lumir先生，诸如此类,明白吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But I feel the same thing often when my son brings his friends, maybe that I've known for a long time.

但我也感觉得到,尤其是我儿子带朋友回来时，也许我早认识了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选