When you are out in nature it is important to speak softly so as not to frighten the animals away.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Well, I've given a number who have quoted him on a number of reasons but one suggestion might be that it is not so much peace alone that Hobbes cherishes as life. Peace is a means to life.

好，接下来我会讲,有些人援引他的一些原因,但有一个可能是霍布斯,除了把和平向生命一样珍视之外还有其他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So supposed that the list is not of size 8, let's make it slightly more interesting and double it.

假如列表的大小不是，为了更有趣，使其加倍。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

We're still close enough to the summer that the air is not just filling us up with extra static electricity, so it's a little more challenging here.

我们现在离夏天更近了,这样空气中不总是,充满额外的静电，所以这时做实验,会有一些挑战性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Historians also say it is possible that she chose to write to someone like Higginson so she would not be understood.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Ideally, life insurance is insuring people-- or fire insurance is insuring people-- against independent events, so it's not the fire of London.

理想状态下,人寿保险,或者是火灾险,承保的对象都是独立事件,伦敦大火的例子不在讨论范围

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is always helpful to tell people how you feel so that your emotions do not trouble you.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

You might even go further, you might say modeling it is always going to miss stuff out, so let's just not bother.

你可能会更进一步说,建模的时候总会忽略一些因素,所以干脆也不要建模了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She often said: "You must never so much as think if you like it or not, if it is bearable or not.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

So I could do it empirically, but I don't want to do that typically, it's just not a great way to get at it. And so in fact, what we want is exactly what the young lady said.

我可以凭借经验来做,但是我不想那么来,因为那并不是一种好方法，并且实际上,我们想要的和这位年轻女士说的确实相同。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some of his silkscreen prints are so detailed it is hard to believe they are not paintings.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So it is not anything like, even as one reads it in retrospect, a wholesale repudiation or even really a very devastating critique of Levi-Strauss.

所以即使是我们回过头来看，这也不是对列维观点的全面否认,更不是对他的毁灭性批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

One aspect of their language which maybe you've noticed in On the Road--it's not quite so pronounced in On the Road as it is elsewhere, certainly--in the letters that these figures write to each other.

他们语言的一个方面也许你们已经在《在路上》里注意到了,当然在《在路上》里表现的并不如在其他地方明显,比如在他们这些人相互写的信里,表现得就很明显。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So it is not surprising that top is part of another expression that describes an important person.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

And that's closer, but the interesting answer sociologists come to is it's not so much you develop powerful friends; rather, you develop powerful acquaintances.

这个答案更接近了，但社会学家给出的有趣答案,并不是你能结交到有权势的朋友;,而是你能结交到有权势的相识之人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So it is not surprising that Las Vegas is called The Gambling Capital of the World and The Entertainment Capital of the World.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

He makes it clear that utility is the only standard of morality, in his view, so he's not challenging Bentham's premise. He's affirming it.

明确指出功利是道德的唯一标准，在他看来，他并没有质疑边沁的前提，而是肯定此观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He says that is because the farmer used rich soil to produce the sod, so it might not do well in clay soils.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

And so not only is aluminum highly charged, but it is physically small.

所以并非铝高度带电，但是它的物理半径很小。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So not all puppetry is just foam and fleece. It's very intricately carved pieces of art."

VOA: special.2009.09.23

So then it's not broader in the US than it is in the UK.

也就是说那时美国的言论没有英国自由。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So it is not surprising that it is called The Entertainment Capital of the World.

VOA: special.2011.07.24

Nature also is not divine. It's demythologized, de-divinized, If that's a word; the created world is not divine, It is not the physical manifestation of various deities, an earth god, a water god and so on.

自然是没有神性的，它是没有神话色彩也没有神性的，如果可以这样说的话，被创造出来的世界并不神圣，它并不是众神实体的显形，是一个土地神或者水神或者诸如此类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The circus has been popular for so long that it is not surprising that words and expressions connected with it are part of everyday speech.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

So whatever perfect justice is, it's not one more thing in the empirical world.

所以无论完美的正义是什么,它不存在于经验世界中

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Also,all the electricity used at Coppi's is wind-generated so it does not cause pollution.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.

但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, I've been asked that if a question is not very clear, I should repeat it so that people listening to it later will know what the question was.

工作人员要求我,如果某个问题听得不清楚,我就需要重复一遍,好让今后观看视频的人弄清楚问题是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选