It also used the trail to take control of an area that is now New Mexico and part of California.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

work is going from where it used to be 5 or 6 big companies in California, in San Francisco and LA.

过去的工作是由加州、旧金山和洛杉矶的五六个大公司来做，

经济危机和电影市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Here is part of it. "I used to try on Mommy's jeans, just to see how they'd fit on me.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The answer is--this goes way back-- it's an old tradition and they used to have to do this by hand.

答案要追溯到很久之前,这是个古老的传统,他们过去用手工计算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And what it's used is to convert one type of group, what's called a carboxylic acid into another type of very reactive intermediate, which is called an acid chloride.

它被用来将一类被称作羧酸的化合物，转化成另外一类活性很高的反应中间体,也就是酰氯。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Experts say any device used to heat a home should be inspected to make sure it is working correctly.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

And I want you to get used to this, that colon is important, it identifies the start, and then the set of indented things identify all the things at the same level, and when we reset back to the previous level, that's when we go back to where we were.

我希望大家熟悉这个结构，冒号很重要，它定义了开始的地方，然后缩进号代表着,同样一层的对象，当我们到了，不缩进的地方的时候，也就到了以前的状态。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is also useful because the mold can be used over and over again to make exact copies of the ceramic form.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

This is something I used to announce near the end, but then some people felt that it's not fair not to know this from the beginning.

这些话我以前都是在期末的时候说的,但后来有些同学反映,如果不在课程一开始知道这些会很不公平

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

One thing it's important for is clever developmental psychologists have used habituation as a way to study people, creatures who can't talk like nonhuman animals, and young babies.

原因之一就是,聪明的发展心理学家们将习惯化,作为研究人类，研究诸如非人类动物或是婴儿这样,无法进行言语表达的生物，的一种方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Buff is also a soft cloth used to rub a surface until it looks bright and shiny.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

It used to be a lot easier to be physically active then it is today, and we'll discuss this later in the class, but energy saving devices all over the place.

在过去,人们比现在从事更多的体力活动,这一点我们以后再讲,帮助你省力的装置,如今随处可见

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

You get the idea here, is to deliver the gene that you're interested in directly to the tissue where it's being used and in this case, the idea is to introduce a gene that's missing.

但首先你要明确,这种思路是用来将,某个目的基因直接导入,它原本就能被利用的组织中的,此例中是导入一种缺失的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

I mean, you know the wings go, and the air runs, and then the motor on the engine and it's a miracle how it gets up there and that is the way I used to explain the Greeks, because I had no better idea.

我的意思是,你知道机翼的作用,空气的流动,还有引擎上的发动机,飞机能飞起来,是个奇迹,我就是用这种方式来解释希腊历史的,因为我也没有更好的方法了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Clay is important because it is used around the world to make containers of all kinds.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

There it is. He used the prism spectrograph to analyze his results. So what do we have here?

在这里，他用了棱镜分光图来分析他的结果,得到些什么呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is used sometimes to describe a political move that leads to an unexpected win.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

When our political opponent is being ironic about our views we understand the irony perfectly well. We're used to it, we have accommodated ourselves to it, and of course it's the same in reverse.

当政敌讽刺我们的观点,我们能够充分的理解这个讽刺，我们已经习惯这点了,是我们使自己习惯这点的，当然，反之亦然。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Turmeric is a plant. It also is used to make the spicy food seasoning curry.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Another really interesting thing about here is it used to be a Roman cemetery.

还有一件很有趣的事情，这里曾是一个罗马墓地。

有各种不同的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is a plaster form that was used to make the bronze statue of Freedom that stands on the dome of the Capitol high above the city.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

What is it about the fact that we don't have something that we used to that makes it worse than ? not having something that we're going to?

要怎么看待,我失去了曾经拥有的事物,要比无法拥有,我们可能拥有的事物更糟糕？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is used when someone tells something that was supposed to be secret.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选