It was also not easy for the family to accept that her cells had fueled an industry worth millions of dollars.
VOA: special.2010.07.21
2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.
如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。
And then that one's got an 18 on it, so I had it for like two years now.
然后那个上面有一个数字18,所以我拥有它两年了。
It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.
VOA: special.2009.11.08
Well, that program was interesting because it had an inventory which was implemented in Scratch with a list which is kind of like a container that you can add things to again and again.
那个程序很有趣,它有一个用Scratch做出来的清单,还有一个貌似容器的列表,你可以不断往里面加东西。
Hershey's town was modern. It had nice houses,large public buildings, and an electric railway system for easy transportation.
VOA: special.2010.12.05
the first was it didn't bother with the established baseline of what percentage of teenage girls had received an unwelcome sexual advance in the day to day actions with people.
第一个问题是,它并没有涉及到底量度的基准,到底这些十几岁的女孩子们,在白天与人正常交往的时候,所受到的性挑逗的比例为多少。
Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.
VOA: special.2009.09.26
It's looks like an ancient Greek novel, except it lacks the one thing every good Greek novel had,sex.
像是一部古希腊小说,只不过缺少了希腊小说普遍具有的“性“
It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.
VOA: special.2010.02.07
It can be argued that the Ancient Near Eastern people with the most lasting legacy is a people that had an idea.
应该说,真正拥有持久遗赠的,古代近东人,是有新观点的人。
He had an army of thousands of men, and it would get much larger in coming months.
VOA: special.2009.08.27
He simply would have plunged ahead into life as though he had freedom, even though he was too stupid to recognize that it was an illusion.
他自然会好像是自由的一样一头扎入生活中,即便他太愚笨而看不出这只是个幻想。
She said it was wonderful that life had returned to an interesting part of Chesapeake Bay.
VOA: special.2009.10.06
What he invented was an insurance policy that had a cash value and that's another-- it's a cash value on the insurance policy.
他创造了一种保单,这种保单具有现金价值,指带有储蓄性质的保单所具有的价值
One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.
VOA: special.2010.02.28
And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.
我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点,然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合,然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。
If,the commander said, the governor had approved the shelling, it would be an act of war.
VOA: special.2009.07.23
It was easy to tell if somebody had an infectious disease but you might not have known that they had cancer at that time and they just died.
如果有人患有感染性疾病,那很容易判断,但在那个时候医生可能不知道,病人得的就是癌症,病人就这么死去了
Lord Ashburton said Britain regretted that it had not made some explanation or apology for the sinking of an American boat in the Niagara River.
VOA: special.2009.02.05
And once you've had enough, you can put an end to it.
当你感到厌倦时,就可以结束它。
And it was changing quickly. Before eighteen sixty, the United States had an agricultural economy.
VOA: special.2010.05.13
It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.
建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。
It was both a labor problem and an immigration problem thousands of Chinese workers had been brought to America to help build the Central Pacific Railroad.
VOA: special.2010.03.11
That is the dominant sort of paradigm of what life is all about, at least in the Western world and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.
这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式,至少对于西方世界,以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此
It was an America that felt it had sacrificed enough for other people.
VOA: special.2010.11.18
Freud had an--It's a good question.
这个问题很好。
Now they are paying for it. "They certainly lost an opportunity that we had in January where it would have cost roughly sixty billion euros to save Greece."
VOA: special.2010.05.07
It's just the sheer--it's amazing, it's an amazing read too. And then, Marc Bloch; I once had the pleasure when I was giving a talk at the University of Strasbourg and sitting in Marc Bloch's office.
那真的是--真的特别棒,也是本好书,还有马克·布洛克,我曾经有幸在斯特拉斯堡大学演讲时,坐在马克·布洛克的办公室里
Uriah Parmelee had an inheritance; at what level he exactly understood it I can't necessarily know, although his letters are extraordinarily rich.
乌利亚遗留下了一些东西,他的理解到达了一定层次,而我没有,尽管他的书信内容很丰富
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