A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

So there was a good question in Wednesday's class about the de Broglie wavelength and if it can actually go to infinity.

在周三的课上有个关于德布罗意波波长的问题,非常好，就是它能不能到无穷大。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

cause I go to 68th and it's straight road. They can just make it all the way if they want.

因为我去的是第68大街，从这儿开始都是一条直路，他们可以把自行车道一直修到底，如果他们想这么做。

自行车和纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If it can hold water, it is strong.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

It's as if the commodity of the bride is deemed truly valuable only if it can be guaranteed pure and untouched.

这就好像新娘这件商品,只有在完全的纯净没有动过才是有真正价值的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"But if it can't be in the near term, it's a far better solution than what people are doing right now.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The algorithm doesn't know that it's going to take this long to compute, it's just busy crunching away, trying to see if it can make it happen.

这很可能会发生，但是你知道的,算法本身并不知道，计算这个问题需要多长的时间，它就一直忙碌的算啊算。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So I recognize the fact that if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He said, "I'll pray for him but if he can punch it'll help." In a small respect, that's Machiavelli.

神父说，我将为他祈祷，但是如果他能出拳猛击,那将会很有帮助，小面上说，这就是马基雅维利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said he supports the U.S.-led invasion if it can lead to a better life in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

At any instant, your motion, if it follows any curve, locally can be approximated as being part of some circle.

在任何时候,如果做曲线运动,都可以近似地认为是圆周的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If it can be established that Madni was in Diego Garcia, that would be a breach of European law and as Algar says, that would mean action against the government of Tony Blair and other parties could be mounted.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

You can be passive if it isn't any good but if you are more active, you may find things.

如果没有什么好处，你们可以被动,但是如果你们更主动，会发现些什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He often has a special plan or answer to a problem that he can use if he needs it.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Well, it can only be true if security selection and market timing detract from institutional returns or individual returns in the aggregate.

唯一的可能性就是证券选择,和市场时机选择,给机构和个人带来的是负的回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If I can be the one to save it from that danger, then my health and life are not important."

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Let's see if we can do that, and it's a little bit of a challenge for the performer.

让我们看看能不能做到这个,对于表演者来说,还真是个挑战呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The drug is nevirapine. If it is given within seventy-two hours after birth, it can often protect babies from H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

And what de Broglie said is well, if it's true that light, which has a wavelength can have momentum, then it must also be true that matter, which has momentum, also has a wavelength.

德布罗意说的是，如果光具有波长和动量是对的,那么物质具有动量和波长,也一定是对的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Maybe even lots of snow. If you do not have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It can be left at room temperature for up to 12 hours if you like a stronger taste.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

There were some problems with that deal and I just give you one news report on that, but you can follow it if you're interested.

那项交易里存在很多问题,而我仅仅给了你一段关于它新闻报道,不过如果你对此感兴趣你可以去追查一下

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Okay if it's 'something you can eat,' okay well that makes a cockroach food.

好的,可以食用就是食品,那蟑螂就是食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He said life is sometimes really hard, but you can make it a lot better if you try to prepare for it.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

You can talk to each other if you don't, can't figure it out.

你们可以，相互讨论。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And,they can discover the time of death to see if it matches information given by suspects and witnesses.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

It takes place in small rooms. If you begin to think about it, you can almost see the set changes: in the diner, on the train station. That's about the most open place, on the train platform. That's about the most open place we see.

在很小的空间里发生，如果你们开始思考它，你们几乎能看到场景的改变，晚饭，在火车站，那算是最室外了，在火车的月台上，那也算是最室外了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选