For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think that if a classroom devolves to the point where physical force is required to gain control,

我认为，如果一个课堂秩序十分混乱，以至于要用武力来维持秩序，

反对体罚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It seemed as if a heavy body was thrown against the table with a force that pushed against his chest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

If a photon which has no mass can behave as a particle, does it follow then an electron which has mass can behave as a wave? 1920.

如果一个没有质量的光子,能像粒子一样运动，那么它能像一个,没有质量的电子那样以波的形式运动吗。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

When he was earnest in discourse, these shone, as it were, a bright- as if a bright live coal within it.

当他认真地在谈话，两只眼睛便闪闪发光，就好像明亮的燃烧着的煤块。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If a lion does kill a herd animal, the Maasai receive money from a program that repays herders for losses.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example, if a wife leads her husband by the nose, she makes him do whatever she wants him to do.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

If a firm is competing against a customer let's say for a non-prime loan perhaps that assumption is not quite so safe.

如果一家公司在和客户博弈,比如发放说次级贷款,可能假设不是那么完备

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Tradition says that if a groundhog sees its shadow, that means people can expect six more weeks of winter weather.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

If a person's just a P-functioning body, how could it be that after the death ? of his body he's still around?

如果人只是作为人功能的肉体，他的肉体死后,他怎么还会活着？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if a woman does miss a payment, the nineteen other women in each loan group help to repay the money.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Similarly, if a child is to say, "I hate your guts, Mother," it's an unusual mother, "That's wonderful.

同样,如果孩子说,"我讨厌你的肠子,妈妈",也不会有家长说,"太棒了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Failing to report an injury like this,can be dangerous if a patient,or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

One of the things that was interesting, when we were talking about the Sooka, was this idea that the Sooka should be weak enough and it would be destroyed if a big storm comes through.

有一件很有意思的事情，我们当时谈到了苏卡这个地方，意识到它其实很脆弱,很可能被即将到来的风暴摧毁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If a drafted man could not do either thing, then he must join the army or be shot as a deserter.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

This is also important though for Roman politics, because if you're if a freedman, - or even if you're a free person-- sometimes see freemen would connect themselves to a powerful Roman who was higher status than them, because they could use him for important things.

同时对罗马政治也很重要，因为即使是自由人，甚至是自由民-,有时候也会依附有权有势,地位高于他们的罗马人，以谋求他们的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

It says that, "If a body has an acceleration, then you need a force and the relation of the force to acceleration is this thing."

它是这么说的,"如果一个物体有加速度,那么你需要有一个力,力和加速度的关系是这样的"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But if a Justice of the Peace can marry two people, it's clear that he can separate them.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

If a cell has a gene that makes it resistant to Ampicillin, that means that that micro-organism can survive being exposed to this normally deadly chemical without dying.

如果细胞带有一种基因,能够让它对氨苄青霉素产生抗性,即使把它放在,有致死剂量化学物质的环境中,它也能存活下来

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

.. And that's where a lot of...you know if a proper government can try figure out how to increase the revenue intake and then ... how to redistribute...somemore effectively.

所以就,如果政府能努力想办法,提高所得财政收入,和更加有效地重新分配支出。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

If a heart beats too slowly, the device will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

If a company borrows a lot of money it's called "leveraged."

若公司有大笔借贷,则称之为有杠杆性

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But,if a customer then orders the chicken soup a server will simply answer, "Sorry,we're out of the soup."

VOA: special.2010.01.08

So if a food belongs to a class of foods that a class of items that contributes to that internal metabolic havoc, would that be reason to consider it a non-food?

如果某种食物,可以引起机体内代谢紊乱,将它们认定为非食品是否合理呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Let's search to see though now if a million is in this list, or 10 million, whichever way I did this it must be a million, right?

不管我选哪个，数都挺大的对不对？,用嘴基本的方法，噢，花的时间有点长,好，而用二分法呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选