It used to be that players in professional sports could change teams only if they were traded, sold or released.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

So even if it were true that belief requires picturing, and even if were true that you can't picture being dead from the inside, it wouldn't follow that you can't believe you're going to die.

所以即便不能相信无法想象之物这一说法，是真实的,人无法从内部想象死亡的感觉，也不代表不能相信自己会死亡这事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You know, if you were to go into the Chelsea area, that's a really new and kind of a clean area.

如果你前往切尔西地区，(你会发现)那儿真是个崭新而干净的区域。

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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

If this were to be an absolute zero Kelvin, then we could we can have something, T2 Sorry, it's T2.

如果它等于绝对零度，我们可以，对不起，这是。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But my chest felt heavy, and my heart pounded in my body as if it were going to explode.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

If there were no voltage on the plates, we would expect everything to be over here in some negative value falling.

如果板子上没有速度，这些可能都在这,都是负值下降的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

If women were better educated, she felt,they could teach in local schools throughout the United States and in foreign countries.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

At a very early age, Milton brooded on his poetic vocation as if it were an actual calling from God.

在很早的时候，弥尔顿就在沉思他的诗歌事业,就像是来自上帝真实的召唤。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He told a friend: "I am satisfied that if the election were held now, nothing could prevent me from becoming president.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So you sort of have a zero-base budgeting model of, "If we were a start-up, what would we do? How would we organize to deliver value to the customers?"

所以得有一个零基础预算模式，如果我们从头开始，我们该做什么,我们如何组织以带给客户价值“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Right now, if you were to shop the class, you could find the tentative list of discussion section days and times.

现在，如果你加入这个班级，某天某时,你可以找一个暂时的讨论清单。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If all these things were not done,Calhoun said, then it would be better to separate, to part in peace.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Yeah. If you were going to marry somebody from this class, it is the person you are sitting next to?

如果要你和这个班上的某个同学结婚，那会是坐在你旁边的那个人？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some artists like this process because they can draw on the metal as easily as if they were using a writing pen.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

If you were the only guy with wheels on your suitcase, people would think you look a little odd.

如果你是唯一一个箱子上带轮子的人，人们可能会觉得你有点古怪。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the silver leaves that moved in the evening breeze.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

And if we were to think about which one of these is better, it turns out that it's the same i in terms of formal charges, so that doesn't help us out.

而如果我们要考虑它们中的哪个更好，结果从形式电荷来看,它们之间没有区别，因此这不能帮我们进行判断。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If these offers were rejected, Slidell was to try to buy part of California for five million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

She said if her choices were bad it would not help the black actors who came after her.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

This is the Frost that you probably know, as if he were born with white hair, right?

这个你们也许知道，好像他天生就有白头发，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But they were afraid of what would happen if news of the operation were leaked to the press.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He was motionless, all but for one finger that moved up and down in front of his face as if he were marking time with it.

他一动也不动，除了一根手指在他的面前上下摆动,好像在用它标记时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They said people honored Rand and Branden as if they were religious leaders without ever questioning their beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

If not, if they were entitled to whatever it was that enabled them to gather the wealth, the first principle is matched.

如果不是偷来的，如果他们,有权享有那些生产资料，那就算符合第一条原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The commander of the ships had been worried that they could hit rocks if they were not careful.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

In this same poll, people were asked if they were eating more junk food then they should.

在同一项调查中,人们被问及,他们是否摄入了过量的垃圾食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

because it helped me transition more easily than if I were just, you know, thrown into the East Coast,

比起被关在东海岸的学校，它能更容易地让我转变，

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