One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?

而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That's sometimes confusing for people, because it seems like okay, is it a photon or is it an electron.

有时候这对人们来说是令人迷惑的，因为它看起来好像是对的，它是一个光子还是一个电子？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Like many of U2's songs, it is an expressive love song with a melody that is hard to forget.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

But when you start writing programs, especially when we get to web-based stuff where you want -- to check the user's input -- is it valid, is it an email address, -- and all these different scenarios -- it's actually often useful to be able to just enumerate them or rattle them off using this switching construct instead.

但是当你看是写程序时，特别是当我们,使用基于网络的东西，你想要,检查用户的输入-,它是合法的吗？它是不是一个电子邮箱地址？,所有的这些场景-,实际上它常常是有用的，当你用枚举结构列举它们,或者用它来快速地来说出它们。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

It is an electron beam. In the 1890s, the latter part of the 19th century a very fashionable word was "ray."

那是个电子束，在十九世纪九十年代，就是19世纪末,一个很时髦的词汇-“光线“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is considered an excellent example of how to move troops quickly to where they are most needed.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The exception is right there. It's an index error, that is it's trying to do something going beyond the range of what this thing could deal with.

但他事实上抛出一个异常，异常就在这里，这是一个下标错误,它是试图去取超出范围的元素造成的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One line is the equator. It is an imaginary line around the widest part of the Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Let us view justice in a city in order to help us understand what it is in an individual.

我们从城市来检视正义,以期帮助我们了解,其在个人之中彰显的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If he misses the shot and one his teammates is able to regain control of the ball, it is called an "offensive rebound."

VOA: special.2011.03.25

So, dimensional analysis is extremely valuable in thermodynamics, and here is an example of it.

因此，量纲分析,在热力学力很有用，这里就是一个例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It is an American problem." And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Lawan Davis.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

It is an odd and unnatural view and I don't actually expect people to believe it at first.

这是个古怪又反常的观点,我并不奢望大家在一开始,就能接受这个观点

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She says the main value of the new credit card act is that it "provides an opportunity for consumers to have more information."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Sometimes you may be listening to a lecture and then half way through it there is an emergency.

有时候讲座过程中，突然有紧急情况。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"This is something any man would be glad to do for him it is an emergency.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

It's simply a distinction that can't be maintained, which is why he calls it an "event."

这个差别不容忽视，这就是为什么德里达称语言为事件“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is an angular glass building with several levels that do not seem to fit together.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Another way of looking at it is that it is an aristocratic way of thinking and feeling.

从另一个角度看,这是一个,贵族式的思考和体验方式

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is about an extremely overweight black teenager in the Harlem area of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is part of an agreement among IBM, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City and the University of Maryland's School of Medicine.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

If we want to add that asset to the portfolio, what it does is it produces an efficient portfolio frontier that is now a straight line; I show that on the diagram.

如果我们将其加入到投资组合中去，则会生成一条资产组合的有效边界,即一条直线;,我在图里把它画出来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the same way, evidence must be designed perfectly if it is to frame an innocent person to make him or her seem guilty.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

Well, it was not very hard for me to draw this red blood cell here, it's just an oval, and one reason I draw it like an oval, is that that's basically what it looks like if you look at it.

我可以很容易的画出,一个血红细胞,就画个椭圆足矣,因为它看上去就是这个样子的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is an organization of about one hundred eighty groups, government agencies and businesses.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

And then, having given the counter example That is to say, what I'm going to give is an example of an argument just like it, or at least an argument that seems to be just like it where we can pretty easily see that that argument doesn't work.

在给了这个反例之后,也就是说,我要给一个,与之相似的论证的例子,或者至少看起来,与之类似的一个论证,我们能够很容易地看到,那个论证是不正确的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what I want to point out is that it creates an effect that is exactly opposite of a bond.

我要指出的是,它造成的效果和成键正好相反。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选