He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The only function it is -- it doesn't care where the gas is. It only cares where the temperature is.

是温度的函数,它只是温度的函数,不管是什么气体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It's huge, but it's very well-designed. It's very well-designed. I found that wherever you sat, you had a good view of things.

那儿很大，但设计得很好。我发现无论你坐在哪儿，你都可以看得很清楚。

精彩音乐会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It wants to look at what it means to be Chinese-American today and what it will mean looking forward.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Milton will only use the word career once in his poetic oeuvre and it comes -- it will come pretty soon, actually, in Sonnet Number Seven.

弥尔顿在他的全部诗歌作品中只用过一次事业这个词,我们马上就会看到，在十四行诗的第七行。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I saw it clearly -- all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones;

VOA: special.2009.05.16

false It's going to return true if it's a PAIL-indrome and false if it's a PAL-indrome. And it says true. Now maybe you're bugged by this.

如果不是会问的话则是,返回的是真值,那么你可能会觉得这个很烦。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The drug is nevirapine. If it is given within seventy-two hours after birth, it can often protect babies from H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

reciting the text, emoting over it, enthusing about it, - and then looking around for something else to say-- it was no longer a question of doing that.

或者只是背诵篇子，装模作样地读一读，假装很感兴趣，然后没话找话的评论一番-,现在意义上的精读可不是这样的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Yeah,not so much,but if you think about it--so it's not that--if you--it's not that we're allowing even more space here.

是的，就这么多变化了，但是你想想不仅仅是这些,我们的时间不允许让这两个音离的更远了。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

People who reached out for emotional support at the time - and received it - reported better results from the crying experience.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

He has a new name for it -I think it's called Home Equity Protection Corporation -but almost the same idea.

他已经想出了一个新名字,我想应该是叫做住房资产保护公司,但是这几乎跟房主贷款公司是一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

But if you want to know the answer, and I knew it, but I forget what it is-- it doesn't matter.

如果你想知道答案,我曾经是知道答案的,不过我忘掉了,这不重要

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Another proposal would add two years to the full retirement age for Social Security -- raising it to sixty-nine by about twenty seventy-five.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

I mean they were underestimating the amount they were eating so it was--it worked in-- it made them look better then they were actually doing.

他们低估了所消耗食物的总量,所以这是,这使得他们吃得看起来比实际的少

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So math -- or,as the British call it,maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

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

All south of it -- including the Columbia River -- would belong to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

It is evident Aristotle writes that as it becomes increasingly one as it becomes increasingly unified--the city -it will no longer be a city.

亚里士多德写到,事实是，当城市愈趋近于一体,愈结合在一起,它便不再是一座城。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

made in Japan. He found it on the Internet and connected it to a bicycle-powered generator.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It's better and better. It's very professional this year. It used to be more mediocre-type stuff.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In many cases, it affects--it also initiates its infection through the gut.

在很多情况下,它也同样是一种经消化道感染病毒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It was open -- wide,wide open -- and I grew angry as I looked at it.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

It was--I think it was--in a book store.

那是--我想--是在一间书店里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

Remember your task for this week-- a dozen of you have already read it-- it's to commit- above and beyond what you usually commit- five extra acts of kindness during one day.

记得你们这周的任务-,一些同学已经知道-,就是去做超越以往所做的事情-,一天内多做五件好事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And it goes--it went on and on and on.

还要继续呢,一直这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选