Plate tectonics is the area of science that explains why the surface of the Earth changes and how those changes cause earthquakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is useful especially when we get to details like forensics and looking at data on a hard drive, - 'cause if you don't know how much store-- how many bits are composing your file, you're never gonna recover that data or be able to access what you're looking for.

这是很有用的，尤其是在法庭上,查看硬盘驱动器里的数据时，如果你连-,文件有多少比特都不知道，你如何去恢复数据,获取你想要的信息呢。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One of the last decisions of its term will likely cause employers to take greater care in how they choose workers to promote.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.

她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Witnesses told how Confederate supporters reportedly planned to cause trouble in the North.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

That's including me and that's why I went into the subject in the first place cause I was aware of how little I really know of this.

那也包括了我,所以我首先研究这个主题,因为我意识到,我对这个主题知之甚少。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"Is it causing you stress?" "Does that cause you anger? How is that affecting your performance at school or at work?

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And then remember how you solve this 'cause otherwise completely useless exercise.

记住我是怎么解决这个问题的，否则就是一次,无意义的演练了，对吧。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

At The Rockefeller University in New York, she is currently studying how skin forms from precursor stem cells, looking for clues that could help researchers understand how defective stem cells can cause cancers and other disorders.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Gohel says what no one could have predicted at the time was how Wilson's support for Afghanistan's mujahedeen would encourage Muslims from around the world to rally to their cause or what would come as a result.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.12