He says this new independent office will have a lot of responsibility -- and that is a good thing.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

You might be winded doing it the second way, but when you get to the top and you are at the 60th story your gravitational potential is independent of how you got there.

对于走路你可能很抓狂，但你一旦到了顶层,你就是在第60层,你的重力势能,与你如何到达那里无关。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So I feel like people are more independent over there, which is sort of a good thing,

所以，我觉得那里的人更独立，这也是件好事情，

纽约大学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The "girl" in all these books is Lisbeth Salander, an independent young woman with a very dark and secretive past.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

I don't know if you know the story, but Labyrinth Books is independent, it's not a chain, and independent bookstores are trying-struggling--to survive.

不知道你们是否了解,"迷宫书店"家是独立书店 而非连锁书店,对于独立书店来说,生存下去非常艰难

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"That is also crucial to allowing corporations a kind of independent personhood and separating ownership from control or ownership from management.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

That would say, how much the stock changed is independent of its current price.

也就是说这个股价的改变量中,有多少是和当前价值无关的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

These colonies are now independent, but English still is one of the languages spoken.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They start running ads. This is what they always do" But some objections are based on cost estimates from an independent agency, the Congressional Budget Office.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

This is an independent project where students are able to integrate what they've learned in their classes and take a step forward in the directions that they want to go in their own professional application of this.

这是一个独立课程,允许学生结合,课堂所学,进一步,应用于他们各自的职业。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I'm Barbara Klein. Rounder Records is an independent music company celebrating its fortieth anniversary.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

Well, a movement is simply an independent piece, that works oftentimes-- if there arre multiple movements in a symphony or concerto-- works with other movements.

简单来说,乐章就是些各自独立的篇章,在一首交响曲或协奏曲内,和其他的乐章和谐统一

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So she made Nancy Drew independent or "spunky" as she is often described.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But I would say, just... what I like to do is just find somewhere that looks independent

但是我想说，只要……我想要的就只是找个看起来与世隔绝的地方，

知道普雷特公司吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Think of Star festival as a textbook that is come to life and environment where students can observe and draw their own conclusions, there is a path way to a new type of learning that is independent yet guided.

将Star，festival看作是一本教科书,走进我们的生活和环境,在那，学生们能观察,并得出自己的结论，有一条路通往学习的新形式,它独立自主，但也有所指导。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So the system is not foolproof." "But overall,it is in our view, the better system than anywhere else in the world because it gives average citizens an opportunity to listen to the evidence and make independent judgments the government is not part of."

VOA: special.2009.08.31

So, this observation is equivalent to saying that there must be something that is path independent.

这个表述相当于说,一定存在某个物理量是与路径无关的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Abbas Kadhim,who is with the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad, says there is still a lot to do.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

There is in us at least an element that is free, independent, serving nothing, autonomous.

我们的人性中至少还有一种元素，它是自由的，独立的，而且不依据其他事物存在而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is expected to gain the support of most of those who voted for an independent candidate who finished third.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Hess' Law states that for any chemical reaction, the energy change is path independent.

盖斯定律表明，对于任意化学反应，能量变化并非是路径依赖的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There is no independent verification of the claims about the fighting because reporters are not allowed into the war zone.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

With more than 91 percent of polling stations tabulated Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says President Hamid Karzai is now the clear leader.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

My future plan, my record company is going to be one of the biggest independent record companies

未来的计划是让我的公司变成最大的独立唱片公司之一，

请听听我的歌 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Eritrea and the ONLF both deny the links, and there is no independent verification of the charges.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

F = ma is universally true, independent of the nature of the force acting on a body.

= ma 是一条普适定律,与作用在物体上的力的属性无关

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

My favorite class is an independent study.

我最喜欢的课是一堂独立调查课。

记忆深刻的研究 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人