One such material is asphalt, a substance often placed on top of buildings and used to cover road surfaces.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

That is to say, the arts of interpretation are used for the purpose of discovering, uncovering, and arriving at meaning.

也就是，语言被用于,探索，发现，事物真正的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

It also used the trail to take control of an area that is now New Mexico and part of California.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

And one of those is bringing a previous set of skills that I used to the Outdoor Action program.

其中一种方式，就是将我原来的野外活动技能,带入到我们的户外活动项目中来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

Here is part of it. "I used to try on Mommy's jeans, just to see how they'd fit on me.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

This is a signal - this passing of phosphorous - is a signal that's used very frequently in intracellular communication.

这是一种信号,一种通过磷酸来传递的信号,这种信号在细胞内通讯时经常被用到

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.08.25

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

This kind of tobacco is grown extensively in Africa and used extensively in American-style cigarettes that are popular worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

So generally and those of you coming from high school computer science background probably used An Integrated Development Environment which actually is a gooey with menus and icons and such.

对于你们这些,有着高中电脑知识背景的同学可能一般用,即“集成开发环境“,它有一些菜单，图标等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The green is more about the ripeness, or lack of ripeness, of the grapes used to make the wine.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

And, in fact there's a technique of analysis used today that's called Rutherford back scattering where people actually saw that this is a means of identifying the substance, the sample.

事实上这是现在用的一种分析技术,称作卢瑟福背散射,就是人们实际上看到的那样,这是鉴别物质样品的一种方法。

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

A good example--we used it a moment ago-- of a disjunct melody is-- Can we all sing that?

我们之前听过的一段曲调,是一个跳进旋律的典型例子,我们大家一起唱好吗

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's twenty-eight states.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

His language is a sort of mishmash of poorly used academic locutions: "worklife plans." It sounds almost like corporate speak, in a way.

他的语言是一种用得很不好的学术语句的混杂：,职业生涯计划，听起来就像是电脑在说话一样不自然。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Intensively used grasslands are also harmed as the soil is continually crushed under the weight of heavy animals.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Again as I said this is my version of it, but you can see, every one of the examples we've used so far has that pattern to it.

形成了迭代的思想，我还是想用我的话，来表达表达，但是你们可以看到,我们讲过的每个例子都用到了这个模式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is also useful because the mold can be used over and over again to make exact copies of the ceramic form.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

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

But that is changing. There are many different kinds of materials and styles used to make furniture.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

If we think about bringing in those last two carbons, what you can see is that for every carbon, two of its hybrid orbitals are being used to bond to other carbons.

如果我们考虑引入最后两个碳原子，你会看到的是对于每个碳原子，其中的两个杂化轨道,和另外的碳原子成键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Their question is part of a model used by experimental economists to explain social and individual behavior.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

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

The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The other but more commonly used monetary policy is to change the rate is to effectively alter the rate of interest on deposits.

另一种形式，更广泛地被运用着,是货币政策是用来改变比率,有效地调整存款的利率水平。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Game Theory is also used in biology and towards the middle of the semester we're actually going to see some examples of Game Theory as applied to evolution.

博弈论同样适用于生物学,在本学期期中的时候,我们会探讨一下,博弈论应用于生物进化论的案例

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选