The new bill gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

And so this is really a mechanical term, if you like, and this is electrostatic or coulombic.

所以说这真算是一个力学问题，你愿意的话，也可以说它是,静电学或库仑定律方面的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Or, if you are at a party and you're ready to leave but you've left your bag with the host,

又或者，你在一个派对上，你准备要走了，但是你刚才把你的包放在派对主人那里了，

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Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

You can really decide if you want to commit to it and work on it more or put it on a shelf for a later date.

你就可以决定,你是否想落实它,更多地为它努力或是暂时搁置它，以后再落实。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

And the other part about it is if feathers were twice as heavy, or half as strong, then birds couldn't fly."

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Deny thy father and refuse they name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." She's a Capulet.

否认你的父亲，抛弃你的姓名吧，也许你不愿意这样做，只要你宣誓做我的爱人，我也不愿再姓凯普莱特了，她姓凯普莱特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This is especially true if they result from drugs,infection, sight or hearing problems, head injury,and heart or lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Everything should be pretty self-explanatory and if you have any questions you can just contact me or ask me questions after class.

这些材料应该都很容易理解,如果有问题的话,可以在课后提问或和我联系

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And if one person dies, the other person may have a difficult time claiming the couple's money or property.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their side of the question."

如果傻瓜或猪对此有异议，那只是因为他们未体验过更高级快乐“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The Securities and Exchange Commission says a private company must report financial information if it has five hundred shareholders or more.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

Further down the line here, if we looked in the adult brain or spinal cord and other regions we'd find committed progenitor cells.

沿着这条线再往后,如果我们看看成人的大脑,或者脊髓或者其他部位,我们就能找到定向祖细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That means that a person can rise from poverty to wealth and success if he or she works hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

And if our only questions, ? or primarily our questions are "what is not working?

如果我们只问同一类问题，或只是问“有哪些不如意的事？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The issues must be treated carefully, or they will be difficult and painful if an elected official has to deal with them.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

If you decide to opt in by a pass fail, I just need to sign your white study card or if you wanna decide before the 5th Monday, just grab the pink slip and I can sign that and you can turn that in at any point and I'm happy to chat during break today or after class if you have any questions or concerns.

如果你上我们的课程只是要一个分数，那么我只需要在你的白卡片上签个名就可以了,或者说，如果在第五周的周一前还没考虑好，把你的解聘书拿来，只要我签个字,任何时候你都开以离开我的教室,当然，如果你有任何问题和疑虑,我也很高心和大家做课下交流。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If someone is doing an extremely good job and is very successful, you might say he or she is batting one thousand.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Another way of saying it is, anything that uses get float doesn't care what the details are inside or shouldn't, and if I change that definition, I don't have to change anything elsewhere in my code, whereas if I just have the raw code in there, I have to go off and do it.

换种说法就是，任何用到获取,输入这个功能的人不用担心具体的实现细节,如果我改变了这里的实现，我并不需要去改变我的代码,因为我的最底处的源码就在这里,我去改这里就可以了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

However,snow can become hard and flat as it becomes older or if there have been strong winds.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Conversely, if I shoot to the right and he or she dives to the right, then I score 40% of the time, so here's my payoff 4.

相反如果我从右路射门而门将扑向右路,我进球的概率是40%,收益是4

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Or,that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

If you squeeze the trigger of a gun really hard and really fast, it doesn't fire any faster or harder than if you just squeezed it gently.

快速有力地扣动扳机,并不比你轻扣扳机,射出的更加快速或更加有力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The other bill changed the list of officials who could become president, if the president and vice president died or were removed from office.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Two hours,you can be on a damn train to New York City and you'll be lucky if you get eighty miles in two hours, or an hour and fifty minutes.

要知道,两个小时都可以做火车去纽约了,但如果是步行,八十公里你一个小时五十分钟,到两个小时内走到就算不错了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Or,if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet."

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Or what if the French come and squish us like grapes?

又或者,万一法国人打过来,把我们像葡萄一样压碎了又怎么办

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And throw away screw-topped or crimp-topped jars and bottles even if they have never been opened.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

And if we talk about what's going on in areas, or with atoms that have high electronegativity, and we think about whether they're electron donors or electron acceptors, what would you expect for an atom that has high electronegativity?

如果我们要讨论这片区域的情况，或者说讨论这些电负性很高的原子，我们会把它们想象成电子的施主,还是受主？,大家认为哪一种,是电负性很高的原子？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He can belt you with that shield, and if he's stronger than you are, or better prepared or more balanced than you are, he could knock your shield out of your hand.

他能用盾牌猛击,如果他比你强壮,或准备充分,或平衡能力比你强的话,他能将你的盾牌击飞

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选