Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts of a situation is called a red herring.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The "I wonder if" pattern, like it sounds, is used to express the fact that you don't completely know something.

I wonder if”句型，就像字面意思表达的一样，是用来表达你对某事并没有彻底的了解。

I wonder if 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Yet the plant is part of a group called Digitalis that is used in medicine to treat heart problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

And as in all of these early lyrics, Jove conventionally throughout the Renaissance is used as a name within these classical fictions to signify the Christian God.

在早期的抒情诗里，贯穿文艺复兴的始终,丘比特在传统意义上意在，在众多的古典神话中,使上帝意象化，符号化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Today,belittle is used, not only in the United States and England, but in other countries where the English language is spoken.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

They put a gene like the insulin gene in place of the milk protein, but behind the promoter that is used to produce milk proteins.

人们将产羊奶蛋白的基因,换成了胰岛素基因,在启动子后面的基因,原本是编码羊奶蛋白的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

But he's also suggesting how humor is used to broach topics that are impossible to talk about in more direct ways, or that feel dangerous to these boys to approach in more direct ways.

如同它也在不断发展,但他还提出,如何用以幽默的口吻展开话题，在无法直接谈论话题的时候,或者觉得这些人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This term is used especially for plants like herbs that produce new growth year after year from the same root structure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

There is another orthography that is used to indicate dipole.

表示偶极还有一种方法,表示偶极。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their parents.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The "I'd rather" pattern is used to indirectly express that you don't want to do something.

I'd rather”句型是用来间接地表达你不想做某件事。

I'd rather 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The company has a huge training center in North Carolina that is used by the American military and other American security forces.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Normally this is used for a reaction in the condensed phases and liquid usually.

通常它是用于凝聚态，液体相的反应,这是一个恒压量热计。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And he says programs like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" suggest that scientific evidence is used much more often than it really is.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

This tends to be an awkward expression or term that is used by historians.

这个表达并不准确,但是仍被历史学家使用

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In fact,some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

A "Would you" question is used to ask somebody else to do something.

Would you”问句用来请求他人做某事。

Would you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then a long wooden stick is used to slowly push a heavy cover down on the bags.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The most common and the most widely used was Achaeans, another one is Danaans, and a third one is Argives.

最普通也最广泛应用的是亚该亚人,另一个是达南人,第三个是阿戈斯人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Clay is important because it is used around the world to make containers of all kinds.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Again, a question the book asks is whether that ideal of justice can be used as a model for politics.

而本书所提问的是,理想的正义,是否能为政治起示范的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

BrightSpark Education says the online tutoring is used only as an addition to supplement regular teaching.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

And what that means simply is did people get the things they used to make their money fairly?

这很简单，就是说,人们是否公平地获得生产资料？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Bt is used as a pesticide to fight cotton bollworms, corn borers and other pests.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Shielding is the term that's used, it brings up a certain image in our mind, and even though that's not precisely what's going on, it's a very good way to visualize what we're trying to think about here.

它带给我们一个确定的画面，虽然那不够精确，但当我们尝试去考虑它的时候,它确实是一种很好,的形象化的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It is used sometimes to describe a political move that leads to an unexpected win.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Sometimes things go awry and what happens is a phrase that's not currently used in psychology but was popular during Freud's time: hysteria.

当防卫机制不起作用时,就会造成一种病症,其名称在如今的心理学领域已经不常用到,但在弗洛伊德的时代,这是个非常流行的名称：,这就是癔症。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, poetry is capable of doing now what religion used to do.

也就是说，今天的诗歌具有从前的宗教的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选