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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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。
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。
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。
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