"A sense that a step is made to release prisoners, and the government is trying to build some bridges in certain areas, but at the same time, the revolutionary side is given its moment in which Fidel Castro is able to excoriate the United States and to continue to lay out the revolutionary credentials, or Cuba's role as a leader of the Third World."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

For some it might mean that woman covers certain parts of her bodies always when she is in public. And that might be everything but the face and hands.

在有些地方意味着,女人要遮住她身体的一些部位,公众场合一贯如此，这些部位可能是,除了脸和手外的所有部位。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So, polio--the disease caused by polio can be a paralytic disease, crippling, and in some cases can lead to death if the disease progresses in certain ways.

小儿麻痹症便是由脊髓灰质炎病毒引起的,如果脊髓灰质炎发展到一定程度,患者不仅会瘫痪或者残疾,一些病例甚至可能死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Another category of difference would be religious believers versus non-believers, non-members of the community. In some religious traditions, ideas of caste and social location make certain people very different in terms of the understanding of human equality.

另外一类区别在于,信仰者和非信仰者也就是，非宗教团体成员之间，在有些宗教传统中，种姓和社会地位,使一些人显得非常不同,这从他们对人的平等的理解可以看出来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There seems to be at least built in to Aristotle's account of politics a certain flexibility a certain latitude of discretion that in some passages even seems to border on a kind of relativism.

那看似建入于,亚里士多德对政治的描述,某种弹性，某种恣意的判断力,在有些段落甚至,看起来近似一种相对论。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Because of the climate and because of certain things growing in different parts of the world--and by the way, I see some of you kind of struggling to keep up with some of the things I'm doing on the slides, but I'm hoping to make broad points here, and again, the slides will be posted on the website so don't worry so much if you're not able to get everything down.

因为气候以及其他的一些原因,在世界不同地方种植,顺便说一句,我发现某些人很费力地,记录我幻灯片里的一些内容,但是我这里只想介绍大体框架,而且课件会上传到网络上,因此不要担心不能记下所有内容

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选