Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in sand.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

In such a world it seems writing poems is a kind of--well, even surviving is a kind of guilty privilege.

在这样的世界中，写诗看起来是一种，甚至幸存也是一种罪恶的特权。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And there just happens to be a major here which is a kind of an intersection of all those things.

现在有一门专业能够将这3门专业结合在一起。

我的梦想是百万富翁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

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

For example,many Americans believe the country's public television service is a kind of public good.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Frost is a kind of materialist, by which I mean he calls attention to the circumstances of imagination, its limits and conditions.

弗罗斯特是个唯物主义者，这样说的原因是他引起了人们对,想象的环境的注意，它的限制和条件。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Asperger's syndrome is a kind of autism, a brain disorder found in children.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

There is a kind of drum beat of thematic material as these scenes pile up.

剧情在不断变换,的场景下不断上演。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He is a kind of mechanical man, a man,Faulkner says, without human eyes.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

So p dot Cartesian is a kind of accessor, it's getting access to the data.

这就是为什么，我想要使用访问器的原因。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One is a kind of deep-water black coral called Leiopathes.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

In some ways the most distinctive literature America has is a kind of Southern literature, white and black.

在某种程度上,美国最有特点的文学,就是一种南方文学,关于白人和黑人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Aspirin is a kind of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug,or NSAID.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

This is a kind of meta-literary allegorization that I'll be performing here: you could also think of Milton the poet as being stuck at this same juncture.

这是一种元文学的语词新作,我现在会开始展示，你们也可以思考一下,诗人弥尔顿也在同样的时刻陷入僵局。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A mockingbird is a kind of gray songbird.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Aristotle tells us that this kind of knowledge is a kind of knowledge most appropriate to politics.

是如何形塑而成的,亚里士多德告诉我们,这类的知识,是一种最适合政治的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A leash is a kind of rope.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Redistribution is a - if you think about it, says the libertarian is a kind of coercion.

仔细想想，再分配这个概念，按自由主义者的话来说，就是强迫。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

At the same time, it is a kind of family drama and there is an inherent humor in a family drama that has a creature as the child."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

There is a kind of cultural myth around the stranger, the person you don't know, who you will--who you fall in love with.

可能对陌生人有一种文化迷思，你不认识他，却将要爱上他。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Malaria is a kind of sickness that makes you very weak.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

This is a kind of argument that we use all the time.

这是我们常用的一种论证方式

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this is a kind of psychological torture.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

which is a kind of a dark comedy, sort of about the logistical side of death,

是一部黑色喜剧，是对于死亡的逻辑性看法，

在学习话剧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

What you see is a kind of cultural unity, first of all, within the Mycenaean world itself.

你看到的是一种文化的统一体,首先,在迈锡尼文明内部文化就是统一的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

who gave us a kind of, I think the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Unfortunately, what we've seen recently is a kind of a bank run on the asset-backed commercial paper.

不幸的是,最近的情况是,有些银行开始运作资产担保商业票据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

which is a kind of soap about hospital life.

它是一部讲述医院生活的肥皂剧。

制作电视节目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人