"What the youth of America and their observing elders saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

That would be a bad design for our nervous system where we want to use cells over and over again, so they're able to recover from this change in potential.

这样的神经系统设计可不怎么样,我们想要能重复使用的神经细胞,所以它们具有从电势变化中恢复的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

"If we started seeing less fit employees or those with chronic illnesses or aging employees discriminated against in the workplace because they're not thought of as as vigorous, that's the potential danger I would say."

VOA: special.2011.02.28

It's rather the people who don't see the potential in other people as well as in themselves as we'll discuss.

是人们看不到他人身上的潜力,也看不到自己身上的潜力，我们会讨论到。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I loved the compassion. I think our society is so focused on being quick these days that we don't really take the time to show that compassion that she showed to him in the movie, and really take the time to really build and lift someone else up when you see potential."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Now, in the heart action potential is moving from one heart muscle cell to another over the surface of the heart.

心脏中的动作电位,沿相邻心肌细胞在心脏表面传递

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Seeing growth potential in medical tourism, many major American health care insurance providers have started pilot programs that offer overseas coverage.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In an earlier address to business leaders in Pretoria, Mrs Clinton says that there is great untapped potential on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Whether you take the elevator to the top of the Hancock Tower or whether you walk up the stairs, the change in gravitational potential is identical.

不管你是乘电梯,去大厦的顶层,或者是步行，重力势能的变化是相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The exhibition, put on every two years in the United Arab Emirates, attracts regional buyers who have immediate and potential problems.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

So that's 9 potential final projects that can live on in telephone form toward semester's end.

就电话这一主题我们就有9个,潜在的项目可以去做。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The first glimmer of his potential came in 2007 at the challenging Birds of Prey downhill in Beaver Creek,Colorado.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

So the main business of government consists in knowing how to control the elites because they are always a potential source of conflict and ambition.

因此统治的第一要务在于,懂得如何控制精英人物因为,他们往往是冲突和野心的潜在来源。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's also seen as a potential game changer for the struggling newspaper and magazine publishing industry, because of its built-in electronic reader.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

We're going to assume that each voter in the model is a potential candidate.

我们要假设模型中每个选民,是一个潜在的候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In recent years Britain has turned up the rhetoric, putting Iran alongside the likes of North Korea as a potential nuclear enemy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Many people are optimistic that Bollywood movies have the potential to make their presence felt beyond the traditional markets in India and Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

And each time one of these errors occurs, or you get multiple errors that compound each other, then you've got a lot of potential error introduced in these messages.

每当有误差发生,或多重误差复合叠加,然后你所得到的信息,就会包含很多潜在的误差

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 December,Hungary,Slovakia and the Czech Republic faced a potential halt in oil deliveries from Russia which had a pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

And, in fact, it can't even reach n, because then we would have no potential energy at all in our electron, which is not correct.

事实上，它连n都达不到，因为如果那样的话,电子就没有势能了，这是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They farm tilapia - mostly in China. Sporns says the U.S.has an international certification process that is rigorous and will catch potential problems.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

You're in the process of becoming more mature, more differentiated and you're losing potential at the same time.

你正在成熟的过程中,分化得更加彻底,同时也失去了一些潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Researchers in Melbourne hope to isolate the most effective compounds for use in a potential vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

The true, in other words, recipient of this book must be necessarily the potential prince.

换句话说，本书真正的受惠者,必然是潜在的君王。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Cole says there is still potential for a good climate deal in Copenhagen next month.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The spontaneous change lowers the potential energy in that case.

在这个例子中,自发变化减小了势能。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The flow of information is really a flow of electrical potential and it goes in one direction only.

信息流实际上就是电势差的流动,并且流动是单向性的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选