But increasing trade with African countries may be more complex than it at first appears.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

And it may well be that no poem has ever been since Paradise Lost published with line numbers in its very first edition.

只有《失乐园》首次印刷的时候把行数印上,之后的诗歌都没被这么出版过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

First it may be that Adam and Eve had access to this tree up to that point. As long as their will conformed to the will of God there was no danger to their going on eternally, being immortal.

第一，亚当和夏娃很有可能，可以接近生命树,只要他们遵从上帝的旨意,此时的永生，是没有威胁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Former U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has just finished chairing a team that did a first draft of the Concept, and presented it to NATO officials in May.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

That is the fundamental idea that may seem simple and obvious to you, but it certainly wasn't back when the idea first came up.

刚才讲的就是最基本的概念,可能看起来比较简单明显,但这些概念刚出现时并不被广泛理解

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now there's another way of organizing this that's standard in Game Theory, so we may as well get used to it now on the first day.

下面再用博弈论的标准方式来整理信息,从今天以后大家要习惯用这种标准

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选