Painters like Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh used the sharp lines and off-centered look of these prints in their paintings.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Jacob is a deceiver; Joseph is an arrogant, spoiled brat; Judah reneges on his obligations to his daughter-in-law and goes off and sleeps with a prostitute.

雅各布是个骗子，约瑟夫是个自大，被宠坏的顽童;,犹大背信弃义，抛下自己的儿媳妇,还与妓女有染。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Florida,for example, captured more than thirty ships before being captured itself off the coast of Brazil in eighteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

I--You're just off on a different planet in terms of your capacity to process aural material, but we--I can't do that.

我,大家其实到了另外一个星球,要说咱们对声音材料的处理能力,但是我们,我无法做到那样

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

In the star war movies, Darth Vader webs out his life server and slices off the--hand of Luke SkyWalker.

星球大战电影里，达斯·维特脱下救生圈时,砍掉了卢克·天行者的手。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

China's export prices may rise, but an American diplomat said the action "takes an irritant off the table in the U.S.-China relationship."

VOA: special.2010.06.25

I got on that hot road and off I went in a brand-new car driven by a Denver businessman of about 35.

我又上路了，外面天气很热,我上了一辆崭新的汽车，开车的丹佛商人看上去才36岁。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They used light-sensitive molecules to turn on and off nerve cells in the deep brain structure of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

We have a zinc plate up here, and we're going to -- in a minute I'll describe how we can probe if electrons are coming off of it.

我们有一块向上的锌板，我们将在一分钟内描述,我们是怎样探测出,是否有电子从上面射出的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"In short,our goal is to get G.M.back on its feet, take a hands-off approach and get out quickly."

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Should it be customized, or in other words, made specific for the particular audience or can we create something that is an off-the-shelf product that people can use in many different environments?

应该为特定的受众，量身设计教育过程,还是制造,一种现成的产品,以供人们,在多种不同环境中使用？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Now,as in those far-off Civil War days, getting information by the grapevine remains something of a game.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

So in designing it, this was a trade-off that we made.

因此在设计的时候我们要权衡。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

In nineteen eighty-five, the group's members expressed their displeasure in the song,"MTV C Get off the Air."

VOA: special.2011.08.05

In alluding to the prophet Isaiah in the prelude, Milton suggested that the iniquity of his lips had to be purged off -- burned off, with the live coal supplied by one of the seraphim.

弥尔顿在序曲中提到预言家艾赛亚，就是要表示他唇齿的邪恶,应该被净化，被其中一个，六翼天使用炭火烧掉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

So I don't know how people feel about taking-- maybe I'm turning you off by saying this-- There's going to be a lot of detail in this course.

我不知道你们是怎么想的,也许说这个让你们很倒胃口,本门课中也有很多细节内容

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In nineteen ninety-nine, climbers set off to search for the remains of Mallory and Irvine.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

but in the presence of the modern food environment that provides access to these things, and to foods like a pop tart with fifty-six different things in it, the body gets thrown off.

但在如今的饮食环境中,我们可以随时接触到像是果酱馅饼,这样的集五十六种成分于一身的食物,但却不利于身体健康

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Or, if you take almost anywhere else-- the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it broke up, Vienna was now this over-sized capital that-- in a very, very small country, but it was balanced off by Budapest.

或者,想想其它任何地方,分崩离析前的奥匈帝国,维也纳在这个狭小的国家里,算是特大型的首都,但还有布达佩斯能够与其成对峙之势

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

On July fifteenth,nineteen thirty-three, Post took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.

狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的，孤独地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角，眼望前方，然后转身消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nine days after take-off, Voyager landed smoothly at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

Of course, to turn the on-off switch on is harder when somebody's in a coma.

当然要开启这个开关难度更大,当人陷入昏迷。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm going to give an example or example of that--of the train kind of going by you, and the sound heading off in the other direction.

我将会举个例子,比方说,那种火车经过你时,它的声音会从别的方向传来

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选