The discovery is exciting because it suggests that the building blocks of life may be more common in the universe than scientists had thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

If you have a set of blocks, mechanical, physical blocks,and I tell you to build something and I say, oh, by the way, you have to cut the blocks in smaller pieces, you are going to get angry, aren't you?

如果你要一个区块，力学的，物理区块，我告诉你要去建造东西,我说，顺便说一下，你必须将一整区块切成小块，你会生气，不会吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I have a friend who lives in SoMa, south of market, so couple of blocks away, and he's...

我有一位朋友住在超市南边的苏玛区，离这里差不多有两个街区，他……

苏玛区的公寓 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

COPD blocks airflow in the lungs.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

That is important, that elements, because they are the building blocks, they combine in whole number multiples.

这很主要，元素，因为它们在组成区块，它们化合成整数倍。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

After stops in 48 cities in 23 states, the Tea Party Express rolled to a stop just blocks from the White House.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And henceforth I'm gonna start calling these tools, these monickers that I can use as building blocks in my own program, it's gonna be called a function as we'll see.

从此以后，我将在我的程序里把这些工具，称为我们可以用来写代码的组件,在我自己的程序中，我们将了解到它被叫做为一个函数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In the closing event, Shelly-Ann Fraser jumped out of the starting blocks and never trailed as she crossed the finish line in a world-leading time of 10.73 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.18

Studies have been done in the city of New York where you can-- if you live in Manhattan you can actually get a very nice metric of how far apart people live from each other in city blocks. Right?

纽约市就做过这类实验,在纽约-,如果你生活在曼哈顿,你能准确地测量,生活不同街道的人相互距离多远？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum, with exhibits,music, and tours of 18th-Century houses,taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in Winston-Salem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And in that--I'm so careful, perhaps the blocks are numbered, I'm so careful that every block is in the exactly same position as in the case where my son built it.

我搭的非常仔细，也许这些积木都编了号，但我搭的很仔细，所以每块积木,都在我儿子之前搭那座塔时,摆在的位置上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because COPD is an ailment that blocks airflow in the lungs, it is critical that COPD patients often focus on breathing, exercise regularly and learn relaxation techniques, especially when they are short of breath.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

I like, the main difference to me is that NYU is a school located in the city blocks in New York.

我喜欢，对我来说最主要的不同就是纽约大学位于纽约市的街区。

纽约大学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A key question is whether either chamber of Congress will employ what is called the "reconciliation process" aimed at overcoming filibusters,or blocks, in the Senate on contentious measures where a 60-vote majority is usually required to pass major legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Most people will buy shares in what's called "round blocks," that's a hundred shares.

大部分人会一手一手的买股票,一手就是一百股

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"There is a sense that when the political leaders arrive in the next few days, that they will be able to overcome some of the stumbling blocks, because I believe the leaders will be able to really grab this issue by the scruff of the neck and get down to the substance and bridge the remaining gaps,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

they have building blocks where the kids can actually build their own creations to play in.

但这里却有许多积木，让孩子们能够充分发挥想象力，建造属于自己的“宫殿”，在里边尽情玩耍。

纽约的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There's a whole bunch of blocks that we'll look at in more fun detail on Friday but I'm going to pick the easiest one here and I'm going to type Hello CS50 in this string, "Hello CS50", zooming in say how nice the puzzle pieces are nicely interlocked?

今天我们看到的各种图块,到下周五我会仔细讲解其中的精妙之处,但今天我只想举一个最简单的例子,我要在这儿键入字符串，放大窗口，然后看看这漂亮的图形和文字,是如何美妙地连结在一起的？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, a few details, a few building blocks we can start using in more compelling ways.

注意一些细节，我们可以更灵活地运用之前的一些,构建程序块。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So on the left hand side of this particular languages environment I have some puzzle pieces and they are shaped and colored ; in a manner that hints out their functionality; any blocks that tell the Cat as we'll see in a moment, what to do something happen to be orange.

在这个程序语言界面的左手边有一些拼图,他们的形状和颜色代表他们的功能,我们马上就能看到;,任何一个给计算机发出指令的图块，都是橙色的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So what I do is I take the blocks and I put them back together building a tower, in the very same shape, in the very same structure, the very same order as the tower my son had built.

所以我就拿出积木,重新搭了一座塔，不管是形状，结构还是，积木的排列顺序,都和我儿子搭的一模一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in Scratch did you probably see the key word "and" on one of the blocks.

在Scratch中，你们大概看到那个关键字,“and“在其中一个程序块中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选