If there is a large supply of seeds, then hand-operated presses may not be enough to support a business.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But he says he fears there could be protests if Zaytuna College is seen as teaching students not to accept other religions.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

So I don't really care that there'll be somebody out there who's still me, if they're so unlike me now.

我不在乎未来是否有一个人,他仍是我，如果他们和现在的我截然不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if that could be done, there was the question of what to do with the freed slaves.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

They make the markets work because if you didn't have this there would be all kinds of crooks and bad actors.

监管使得市场有序运行,如果缺乏监管,市场就会充斥着不法商人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Theres plenty of room for more." "And there'll be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Now, if the babies expect the block to still be there, they should think the block should stop the screen.

这时,如果婴儿会期待木块留在原处,那么他们会认为,木块能阻止屏板上升

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But if I do not end this program right now, there will be fireworks from my producer.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

But Aristotle used to think that if you want something to move, there has to be some agency making it move.

但亚里士多德认为,如果要让物体运动,那就必须有某种作用让它运动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "If by December, there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be taken."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

There may be some inefficiencies, and at some point, if you catch me in the hallway, I can give you a sermon on what goes on inside that reactor.

可能会有某些损耗，如果你能在过道上遇到我的话，我会给你详细讲讲,里面到底发生了什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; So if you are killed by a beast or a human, there will have to be a reckoning, an accounting.

你们的血;,无论你是被人或者兽所杀，我必将讨他的罪。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

So, you turned in p-set 3 today, but we'll have the answers posted for you this afternoon, so you can start studying from p-set 3, even as early as tonight, if you want to, because those answers will be there for you.

今天大家应该要交第三次作业了，而我们会在今天下午将答案给大家贴出来，这样大家就可以尽快开始复习第三次作业的内容了，甚至今天晚上就可以开始，如果你需要的话，这些答案将会给你一些帮助。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If there was a snake here, I'd apologize. Where would this college be without football?

VOA: special.2009.07.19

You might be able to tell just by looking at it what was - if there was a disease what was wrong with it.

也许还能看出,这个细胞是否存在病变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

It could be normal, everything, that would be a Gaussian, where if you recall there was a mean, and a standard deviation, and most values were going to be close to the mean.

可能是正态分布，也就是高斯分布，只要有平均值和标准偏差值，你就可以进行调用，大部分的值都是集中在平均值附近的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But he said if people changed their mindset, there could be a world without poverty.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

There will be no war in a couple of years uh..If you look at the stimulus package, the one thing it is not done is stimulating.

未来几年将不会有发战争财的机会,呃，如果你看刺激计划，它没有做到的一件事情就是刺激市场。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"If you want to do good, there needs to be a business model behind it.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

Because if anything worked, there would be a solution that would have some value over time and people wouldn't have to be seeking out the newest miracle, getting every little thing they see on TV and the like, and I'll show you some amusing examples of those in the next class.

如果真有用,那就找到了长期有效的解决方法,人们就不会再三地寻找方法了,只要看到电视上有什么小妙招就要尝试,下堂课我会举几个有趣的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But if federal judges resigned, there would be no federal court rulings to enforce.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.

如果我们现在好好思考一下南方的特点,也许首先,让我们想想所有关于南方的陈见,不难意识到,如果那么多人通过个人观察,写出的南方都大同小异,那么这些南方特点一定有其根源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Clay warned that if the South seceded, there would be war within sixty days.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Well, if normally there's this super tight connection between my soul and my body, death might be the severing of that connection.

如果我的灵魂和肉体之间,有着超紧密的联系,那么死亡就是这种联系的终结

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选