She had been addressing Christmas cards, and the only thing that came to her mind was 'Merry' as in Merry Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So I think that gay marriage and for gay families, it's actually a very good thing in our society

所以我认为同性恋婚姻以及同性恋家庭对社会是件好事情，

给我结婚的自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

I wasn't very interested in that kind of thing, and there's nothing in these photographs that really appealed to me personally.

我对这类事情很不感兴趣，这些图片对我个人,没有任何吸引力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But this was not the kind of thing young women growing up in the nineteen forties usually did.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Condition," this thing in the middle between the semicolons, is going to be checked every iteration of the loop.

条件，“这个在两个分号的中间，它将迭代地检查这个循环的条件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The couple stared. "My lady has huge wealth", continued the messenger, "But in one thing she is poor.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Those two equal signs are saying, is this thing equal to, in value, the thing on the other side?

这两个等号意思是，左边的对象，在值上是不是和另外一边的相等？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I remembered not one thing I might have learned in the next six weeks of the writing program.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

I am by the way at the moment trying to do the same thing in Cuba, with absolutely no success.

现在我试图在古巴做同样的工作,但现在收获还不大。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He pointed. Its exactly in that direction. This time the reporter saw a small thing on the edge of the moving horizon.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

And it's--you might think, " "All right. The life of a waiter is not the worst thing in the world."

而这时，你可能会想，“好吧，侍应生的生活又不是这世上最坏的事情“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Many people did the same thing. They bought supplies in the United States and moved them to Dawson.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

It's one thing to plug in all the numbers and say, "I know Newton's laws and I know how they work."

我们平时只是把数字代进公式,然后说,"我懂牛顿定律,也知道怎么使用"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But one thing is sure. The discoveries in the meteorite helped shape policy and exploration efforts at the United States space agency,NASA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That was the sort of thing that made a young man with broadcasting stars in his eyes .

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The really interesting thing about payments in the financial world is no one has really designed it.

金融界的付款很有趣,因为它不是什么人设计出来的。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Mercy in an individual is a wonderful thing, but mercy on the part of a government actor can be a very dangerous thing."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

But he could only wave his hands as to how this physical thing in the world could connect to an immaterial mind.

但他只能用挥手这样的动作,来展示现实的生理客体,是如何与无形心理相联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"A lot of time homeless children's families are in chaos and homework is the last thing that parents want to be worrying about."

VOA: special.2011.01.27

And the most important thing in the Southern code of honor, I think, safe to say, was reputation.

南方人所谓的荣誉的核心部分,我以为,可以肯定的说,是声誉

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Another thing to keep in mind is that not all students pay a school's "published price."

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And he does the same thing, in fact, to those around him, famously to his lover, Maude Gonne, who becomes Helen of Troy in "No Second Troy"and in other poems.

他也这样表现他周围的人，著名的就要数他的爱人，昴德·冈昂，她在没有第二个特洛伊,和其他诗歌中化身为海伦。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The outside layers are a bit crunchy, then the soft part takes over and the whole thing seems to just melt in your mouth.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

What I'd like to do--and this will be the first time I've the clicker thing in the class so let's try out this little quiz and see how it works.

我想要--这是我第一次,在课上使用表决器,所以我们先做个小测试看看效果如何

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We see the same thing in real estate.

房地产市场情况也与之相似

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选