A more common way to deal with weeds is to control them enough so that the land can be used for planting.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

In other words, what they have in common with each other, ethical will and animal passion, is that they're both grounded in interest.

换句话说，道德意志和动物本性,的共同点就是，它们都建立在兴趣之上，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In particular, a very common thing people do with data is they extrapolate.

这种错误，在数据预测时,很常见。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Type two diabetes is common in people who eat too much and exercise too little and those with a family history of it.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is mixed for about two hours with some common chemicals and then allowed to cool.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

It is concerned with the common good.

其关心的是公共利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is mixed for about 2 hours with some common chemicals and then allowed to cool.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

And a lot of it is already in those books but my hope is that our goal to the next book by transcending it through this common experience with you and already thinking in those terms.

很多书有讲这些哲学问题,但我希望通过和你们一起的经历,我们的下一本书,能够超过上一本书,这些都已经在前几个学期开始构思了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

A common design is a tall box with several shelves inside to hold the food.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

So in other words, if you terminate these lines early, if you terminate the four loop early, if you terminate an if condition early with that semicolon, the code may very well work; and this is a common source -- of frustration and conundrum because you don't -- because your code looks right and yet it's misbehaving, but that semicolon means stop looking for subsequent lines of related code.

换句话说，如果你用分号过早的终止了这些代码行，如果你过早地终止了那个for循环，如果如此,一个if条件，代码可能可以运行，这就是,挫折和问题产生的源头，因为你没有-,因为你的代码看起来是正确的，但是运行是错误的，那个分号的意思是,停止寻找后面相关的代码。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Public education is our greatest tool - arming people with knowledge about the ways in which common criminal enterprises have tried to take advantage of them."

VOA: special.2011.06.24

Turning to the word literature, this is not theory of relativity, theory of music, or theory of government This is a course in theory of literature, and theory of literature shares in common with other kinds of theory the need for definition.

提到文学这个词，我们讲的不是不是相对论，音乐理论，或者政治理论,这是一门文学理论课程，和其他理论一样,它也需要定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Farther west, the problem is with common carp.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

They are unregulated by law; they are unregulated by authority. The state of nature is simply a kind of condition of maximum insecurity, an unregulated market with no common laws or rules to sustain it.

法律，权威使然,自然状态就是,一种最大安全感的状态,是一种没有法律规范维持的,不加管制的市场。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is testimony to what can be achieved by a transatlantic community that acts with a clear sense of common purpose,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

This much, by the way, Wimsatt has in common with Gadamer, because Gadamer doesn't talk much about authors either, and Gadamer is interested in what he calls meaning, the subject matter, die Sache. Right? He's not interested in your sort of expression of that meaning or my expression of that meaning.

顺便说一句，文萨特和葛达玛很大相同之处就在于，葛达玛也不太强调作者的作用，而是对文章的含义，主题感兴趣，不是吗？，他不关注作品在用,你的还是我的表达方式来表现内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"There is common understanding with the DPRK on the need to implement the 2005 joint statement and to resume the six-party process,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Robin Hodess says creating a new anti-corruption body is common practice when confronted with corruption, but that the track record of such bodies is mixed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17