"The purpose of the awards was to give those high school students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

We control how we use time, we control the temperature in the environment, and hermetically seal ourselves in things.

我们控制时间的利用，我们控制周边环境的温度,我们把自己封闭在各种事务中，与世隔绝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

but yeah, I participated in things like that.

但也是类似的。

我遇到的天才们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's sort of an intimate thing,you know. It's the dichotomy of having comfort in singing about certain things or saying things within a song, but then elaborating further seems difficult for me."

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The plants can be deficient in certain things, especially fat soluble vitamins that come from meat and from essential amino acids.

植物中缺乏某些物质,特别是脂溶性维生素,那些只能从肉类和必需氨基酸中获得

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The American Cancer Society says governments can do things to help prevent the increase in cancer cases and deaths.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Most people today are attracted to the study of politics because they are interested in things they've read about in newspapers or seen on TV.

所为又为何,大部份对政治研究感兴趣的人,是因为他们,对读过之报章或电视报导感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Apple has been a driver in some things and they have been a faithful adopter of good ideas in others."

VOA: special.2011.01.28

Recall that frontal lobes are involved in things like restraint and willpower.

还记得额叶与约束力和意志力有关吧

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He was known not as someone who said funny things, but as someone who said things in a funny way.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

This is something that I believe in -not everyone believes in this -but the general principle has been now -ever since the 1930s -that the general public is not allowed to invest in things that are not properly documented.

我信任这些条例...,然而并非所有人都信任...,自30年代以来...,普遍的原则就是...,大众不得投资那些,未经过审核的投资事务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It says the money is aimed at ensuring that these experts will do even more creative things in the future.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

We need to innovate. We need to have more value-added things in the Chinese economy or in the GDP composition.

中国需要创新,需要更多高附加值的产品。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Because of that experience, I will always remember that nice things still happen in a world that is driven by money.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Now we need to take in other things that are also articulate human rights but make them more central: rights within marriage.

现在我们需要把一些其他的事物,也归类到人权范围之内,而且要给予更多的关注：,比如说，婚内权利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She told one of them: "I want you to take good care of all the furniture and other things in the house.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

But once you start publishing things in between covers, you actually have to decide what goes in and what goes out.

但一旦你开始把书籍加上封面出版，你就必须决定要出版哪些书。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Princess,I have done many strange things in my life, many things much smarter men would not have done.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Other than just in poisons and in organic synthesis shells, you might also find them in some things we're more familiar with, such as almonds.

除了在毒药以及有机合成的容器中，你可能还会在我们更熟悉的,东西中找到它们，比如杏仁。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life,like food.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

You really believe, and it is in fact the case that the things written down in the envelope are true.

你真的相信，而事实上,信封里写的那些事都是真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They can also see some of the things he used in his magic tricks, including a straitjacket and eleven pairs of handcuffs.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

Then from these beginnings, engineers transformed life in the twentieth century: a lot of things started in the twentieth century and became common place.

从此开始,工程师们改变了二十世纪的生活,有很多东西在二十世纪发明并得到普及

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And here are two other things to keep in mind, one for children and the other for adults.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Now, if we have any doubts that On the Road is mythic in itself, I just want to show you quickly two things. In 2007, On the Road had its fiftieth anniversary of publication.

现在如果还有对这本小说虚构性有所疑问，我想要迅速地让向你们展示两件事情，2007年是《在路上》出版的十五周年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But the other reason to go through the thermodynamic cycles and really to develop great facility with them is because there are just an awful lot of things in nature and things that we build that run in cycles, where we want to calculate the thermodynamics, right.

但是要推导热力学,循环并为之发展一套,完善方法的另外一个原因是,自然界中或人造的那些,我们想计算它们的热力学的东西,有很多是以循环的方式运作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You can also post comments. Do you have a question about people, places or things in America?

VOA: special.2010.02.19

You have something which suddenly appears amid other things: something which is latent in those things, although they don't in themselves have it until you confer it on them, namely that which confers meaning--language.

这些东西突然于其它东西之间出现：,这些潜在于其它东西之中，虽然若你不给它一个意思的话，它们不会有意思，也就是说，给予事物意义的就是语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is a way Locke argues to create property, not just in the things we gather and hunt, but in the land itself, provided there is enough and as good left for others.

洛克认为有种创造财富的办法，不仅包括我们采集捕猎到的东西，还有土地本身，只要还有足够多足够好的留给别人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选