"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

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

That is, you minimize potential energy and you see things falling under the force of gravity and so forthgoing to potential energy minima in conformance with this result.

换句话说，你使得势能最小化,然后发现我们关注的东西,在重力或者其他力的作用下下落,直到势能最小的地方,这和我们刚才的结果是一致的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"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

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

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

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

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

When we increase the potential between the 2 electrodes that we have in the tube -- we actually split the h 2 into the individual hydrogen atoms, and not only do that, but also excite the atoms.

当我们增大两个电极之间电压,我们有-我们可以把氢气2,分解成单个的氢原子，不仅这样，还能激发原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

one way in which unpredictability at least has the potential of making things worse is this.

不可预见性,使事情更糟糕的一种情况是。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tobacco history is extremely interesting and relevant here The tobacco industry in countries like China saw the potential as well, and hence, smoking rates like rates of obesity have been skyrocketing in China and in countries such as Indonesia, Botswana, and Uruguay.

烟草的历史十分有趣,与我们这里讲的内容相关,像中国这样国家的烟草工业,也发现了这种潜在情况,因而,吸烟率就好像肥胖率那样,在中国,印度尼西亚,博茨瓦纳,乌拉圭这些国家中直线上升

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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 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

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

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

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

"We have not shied away from raising the difficult problems that exist and stand in the way of the people of Africa realizing their potential.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

After that, they suddenly in some children saw the potential that was there all along.

之后，突然他们在一些孩子身上,看到一直都有的潜力。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The other benefit is deterrence. "It will save time of fighting and will deter in many cases a potential enemy from really launching an attack."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

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

That results in a dramatic change in the membrane voltage; the potential across the membrane and that's shown here by this rapid rise in membrane potential.

变化导致了膜电压的剧烈变化,膜电压就是跨膜的电势差,表现为膜电位的迅速上升

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选