But it was Darwin who identified and explained the process, natural selection, that causes life to evolve.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

We know now that it's caused by a related virus, called vaccinia, remember the virus that causes smallpox is called variola.

我们现在知道这病由一种相关的病毒引起,这种病毒叫牛痘病毒,想想天花病毒也被叫做牛痘病毒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's reproduction of the virus and passage of that virus onto new cells which causes the problems with disease that we associate.

病毒一旦繁殖并进入新细胞,就会带来相关病症的危害

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The researchers believe that knowing the causes of loneliness could help in reducing it.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It's possible that the causes of death are the same; it's possible they've changed, but we'll see.

可能死亡原因还是一样的,也可能已经不同,我们一会儿就知道了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It causes several billion dollars a year in agricultural losses around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

He's not saying that it is because we are rational creatures possessed of the power of speech that causes us to engage in politics.

他并不是在说,因为我们是理性生物,且具有辩论能力,所以才会导致我们参与政治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Then,when the parasite enters the brain, it causes more serious problems.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

So, it's possible that the very fact that we're going to die causes an interaction effect with our life so there's an upside to it.

所以，我们会死这个事实可能会,引起对我们生命的一种相互影响,是一种向上的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It causes an infection or swelling of the brain.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.

这不一定是按时间顺序排列的，但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是，一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力，起源，思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Scientists don't know what causes it, but besides a genetic predisposition, they are now focusing on environmental exposure, or a combination of the two.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

It's not the case that incongruity causes laughter.

笑不是由不一致引起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It causes debilitating fevers and is the number one killer of children in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

If I consume Bud Light, then I have to pay for the Bud Light, I think it typically costs less, the price, the raw price is less than Guinness but I also pay an additional cost from the fact that Bud Light, when I drink it, causes me "disutility": we'll put it politely like that.

如过我买百威淡啤酒,我必须要支付百威淡啤酒的价格,我想它会便宜点,原材料的价格比吉尼斯低,但我同样要支付附加成本因为百威淡啤酒,当我喝它的时候,味道一般,我表达得委婉一点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I think a solution to end this piracy, or to reduce it significantly, is possible and it should be done with cooperation of the local community, while at the same time addressing the root causes of the problem,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

It's just that thinking about the fact that she's going to be a corpse causes you to not want to kiss her, not be able to enjoy kissing her.

只是考虑到这个,她会变成尸体的事实,导致了你不想亲吻她，不能享受亲吻她。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

It's a gene that allows you to deliver a drug that's not active but the gene causes that active - that inactive drug to be converted into an active form that kills the cell.

这一方法利用该基因激活,另一种已经导入细胞的非活性药物,来杀死肿瘤细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example, how cancer diagnosis has improved, what are some of the causes of cancer in the environment around us and how can we protect ourselves from it, and we'll talk about treatments for it as well.

例如癌症的诊断手段是如何进步的,我们周围环境中有哪些致癌因素,以及我们如何保护自己免受其害,我们也会讨论到癌症的治疗手段

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选