Yeah. Absolutely. A lot of emphasis, a lot of variation in tone, and the italics are part of the representation of that.

对，绝对是的，很多的强调，很多语气上的变化，而斜体字就是它的表示方法之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So we gonna back up in that previous variation Let's just see if we can pick up what the missing third part here.

我们要回到刚才的变奏,看看我们能不能捕捉到,缺失的第三部分

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And once you hit puberty, suddenly there's huge variation in the abilities you have to learn language.

一旦你到了青春期,学习语言的能力会在突然间,发生巨大的变化

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's a more surprising variation that occurs, however, in Exodus 34.

在《出埃及记》第34章里，出现了一个更惊人的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He reasoned then that the charge, since he could vary voltage continuously but got a discontinuous variation in velocity, his conclusion was that the charge must be discontinuously attached to the droplet.

他推断出电荷，因为他可以不断地改变电压,但是得出了速度是在不连续变化着，他的结论是电荷,是间断地依附于液滴上的。

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There's a great deal of variation in how much life we get.

我们活得多久也有很大的差别。

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Now there's a lot of variation in that: men would be different from women, taller more then shorter, all that sort of thing, but nonetheless let's just use that as a reference.

当然随情况会有不同变化,男人需要的比女人多,高的比矮的多,像这类情况,但我们用这数据做个参考

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, for example, we have this average level, and then it can go high where we have the peak, or it can go very low. We can also discuss sound waves, so again it's just the periodic variation of some property -- in this case we're talking about density, so we have high density areas and low density areas.

例如这是平均位置，在峰的位置水位高，在谷水位低，我们也可以,讨论声波它也是某种,量的周期变化，在这里我们,讨论的是密度,我们有高密度区和低密度区。

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The water soluble vitamins tend to be used more immediately by the body not stored and excreted through the urine if consumed in excess, so the body can tolerate more variation in intake of these before you start getting toxicity than is the case with the vitamins on the right.

而水溶性维生素往往都立刻被身体所利用,不会被机体储藏,过剩部分由尿液排出,因此机体耐受过量水溶性维生素的能力,相比起右边这栏里的脂溶性维生素,可是要强得多了

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