It was produced by Caty Weaver. Please join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

It is going to smear in this manner and will look something like this where I have dumbbell shapes with smearing.

这带有一点拖尾效应,看起来像某个东西,带一点拖尾效应的哑铃。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And the solution to this equation looks like this where it is written in terms of a quantity called a wavefunction.

这个方程的解法是,看起来像是写成数学符号就是,波函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Yeats insists that the heart is an organ of the body, and located in it. This is important.

叶芝相信心灵是身体的器官，置于心灵中，这很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is hard to miss the crowds of people always gathering in one room on this floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

I think it's telling that this kind of creation is a failure; it cannot succeed in the confines of this novel.

我想这告诉我们这种创作是失败的;,它在这本小说的界限内无法成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Madam C.J.Walker explained it this way: "If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It can be the grandness of the Grand Canyon, But it can also be this little tiny nature is in that same little tiny plot.

所以自然中的灵性可能是像大峡谷一样的雄伟，也可能是这块小小的,方块里的微型自然界。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is because it was against the law in England for women to act onstage.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

And what we saw last time is that this was necessary to make things work, this part of it in particular.

上节课我们讲,这是对外做功的必要条件，特别是这个部分。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Some say it is his best. Kahn built this museum in the early nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The reason I'm showing you this is it that this is a gain, a common trade off in computer science.

我向你们说明这个,是因为是这个计算机科学中。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This man is wearing plastic objects in his hair to curl and shape it.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

What's shown in this diagram is the progress of the developing embryo as it travels in time, down the fallopian tube.

这张图上显示的,就是胚胎发育的过程,是按照它在输卵管中移动的时间排序的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"Therefore,any secessionist movement, no matter where it is in the world, will look towards this and gain some encouragement that they too can pursue this path."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

A different way of putting it-- and none of this is going to come in with a sharp, decisive theory.

从另一个角度来看-,注意，我现在讲的内容,目前都没有一个明确的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Our hope is that this will become the way school is in the United States, it will become the dominant way of going to high school."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Then the structural engineers take that information and they use it to detail the building in terms of, is this going to be a steel structure?

VOA: special.2011.03.28

It is inevitable that you will bring what you learn in this course into dialogue with your own personal religious beliefs, and for some of you, I hope all of you, that will be enriching and exciting.

你们必然会将你们在这门课中所学,带入到关于个人信仰的谈话中，对于你们中的某些人我倒希望是所有人，在这课上能让自己充实，兴奋。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

That would not necessarily be true in other parts of the world but it is true in this part of the world.

在其他地方,情况不一定这样,但是在美国,事实就是这如此

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

If you're wondering what's OK or what's not OK, it's very clearly written out in this handout, so make sure you read through it, because it is your responsibility to make sure that your calculator does not have anything extra programmed in it.

如果你不清楚什么可以什么不可以，讲义上写得很清楚，所以请大家务必看完它，因为你有义务保证,在自己的计算器里,没有编上额外的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This year,it is presented for solving a problem in biology.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

This is in a pretty small it's bigger than Belgium, but this is a pretty small territory.

这是仍然是一个相当小的数字,只比比利时稍大一点,不过比利时的领土也是很小的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Is the reason people behave badly-- I don't know "Badly"--people choose Alpha in this game here, is it the fact that they can't communicate?

人们之所以取得糟糕的结果,我不敢说结果是不是真的不好,但人们选α是因为不能交流吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选