Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

One is a little bit higher and one is a little bit lower than they are in the atomic situation.

一个有点高,一个有点低,相比他们是原子状态的情景而言。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Because language is a reflection of the culture and the culture is a reflection of the language.

因为语言是文化的反映，文化也是语言的反映。

学外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One is a belief that a government is stable and that the justice and legal systems are fair and effective.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Einstein is only a theoretician and de Broglie is a theoretician, so one theoretician propping up another theoretician, this is a mutual admiration society.

爱因斯坦是个理论家,布罗意也是，因此一个理论家可以去认可另一位，这是个彼此仰慕的社会。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

When a bone is broken in more than two places or gets crushed, the name for it is a comminuted fracture.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

This doesn't look forward to Humbert's poem; it already is a poem and it is a poem to the crazed, aroused mind of Humbert.

不期待亨伯特自己的诗，它已经是一首,让其疯狂，引其深思的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A planetarium is a theater with a rounded ceiling onto which images of the stars and planets are projected.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

So displacement is a kind of delay or detour of understanding, and condensation, on the other hand, is a kind of distillation of understanding.

所以“移置“是一种滞后的，迂回的理解，而另一方面，“凝缩“,则是理解的提炼过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Popeye is a criminal,a man who "made money and had nothing he could do with it,spend it for."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The remaining chapters are appendices: 23 is a farewell address, and 24 is a renewal of the covenant at Shechem which brings everything to a nice conclusion.

其余章节有补充作用：,23章是告别演说，24章是在示剑重申契约,使所有事情都有了美好结局。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Manny is a wooly mammoth, Sid is a ground sloth and Diego is a smilodon or saber-toothed cat.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

This is a signal - this passing of phosphorous - is a signal that's used very frequently in intracellular communication.

这是一种信号,一种通过磷酸来传递的信号,这种信号在细胞内通讯时经常被用到

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The story is about a girl whose brother is a soldier who gets killed in a desert war.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

But at the same time, this is slightly earlier, this is a painting--thanks, Dan--this is a painting of bruegel the Elder.

这是同时期稍早时候的一幅画,出自老布勒哲尔之手

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

In this case one of the people being interviewed is a woman named Susan Jebb, who is a prominent research in the UK.

这段采访的是,一位名叫苏珊· 杰伯的女士,她是英国著名的研究学者

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 top proverb among these listeners is this one: "Where there is a will,there is a way."

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Now, the subject, free will, is a very, very-- The subject of consciousness is a very complicated.

这个话题,自由意志,是一个非常非常,关于意识的话题非常复杂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A compass is a device containing a metal object that points toward the magnetic north pole.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So this is a game, just to give you some more jargon, this is a normal-form game.

用专业术语来说,这个博弈,属于标准式的博弈

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Is a hydrogen bond shorter, or is a nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond going to be shorter?

是氢的键更短，还是氮与氮的三键更短？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

John Adams is a writer not only of music: he is currently working on a novel.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

There is a palace economy, there is a script, there is a bureaucracy, and there is collectivized agriculture under the central control of the economy.

有王宫经济,有文字,有官僚制度,有中央集权经济下的,集体农业

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A hot shot is a person, often a young person, who thinks he can do anything.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Brother West, this is a book about you, which is a new thing.

博士，这本书的不同之处在于这是关于你人生的书。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Looking closer still, you can see that one is a small part of a rising sun.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

3 So here what I'm doing is 17 divided by 13, but because of this parenthetical, , -- because of that parenthetical -- that has nothing to do with math; -- this is a programming language thing -- that is a casting operation.

所以这里我要做的是用17除以，但因为这样的题外话，因为那样的题外话-,还是没有做完这个数学题;,这是一个编程语言的东西-,那是一个计算操作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There is a military aid, which is different, who carried what's called the 'football', which is a leather section that contains the highest classified communication equipment and nuclear codes.

有个军事助理，那是不同的，他负责拿着叫“足球”的东西，是个皮革的盒子,里面装着最高秘密等级的,通信设备,和原子弹设备。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选