Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

Is it just a representation of an imaginative and desireful economy, or is there some other thing being produced here?

是仅仅代表了虚构的渴望的经济，还是有些别的什么在这儿？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Because most of the people there didn't really need it because they have cars, or they just take taxis.

因为那里的大多数人并不真正需要它，因为他们自己有车，或者会直接打车。

上东区的氛围 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Or,what better way is there to sell gasoline than to say that using it is like putting a tiger in your tank.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

if you've got a hill or valley and there's a cart on wheels it's going to go down to the bottom.

如果我们有一座山或者山谷，并且,有一个有轮子的车，这辆车会自动滑到底部。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It says there is not enough evidence to decide about either digital mammography or magnetic resonance imaging instead of traditional film mammography.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

There is no way to compensate or punish someone for murder, it simply means forfeiture of one's own life.

谋杀者没有办法补偿或者受罚，只能以自己的生命为代价。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

However,snow can become hard and flat as it becomes older or if there have been strong winds.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

When you are searching a list to see whether it has an element, you don't randomly probe the list, hoping to find whether or not it's there.

当我们在一个数组中,寻找目标元素的时候,我们不会随机的调查数组来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In many countries there are a few natural bottlenecks, whether it be large data centers or right-of-ways."

VOA: special.2011.02.21

That puzzle aside, it seems to me that once we become physicalists, there's nothing especially deep or mysterious about death.

除了这个谜团，在我看来似乎在成为物理主义者之后，死亡并没有什么深刻和神秘的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There is no need to keep it a secret, or keep it under your hat.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

So, all right. Good. Are there any other defenders who say it's just categorically wrong, with or without consent?

很好，有没其他人要辩护的,谁认为就是绝对错的，不管有没征得同意？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But it would be many years before there were musical recordings or regular radio broadcasts.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

But he thought that it should be channeled through state obligations, be there taxes or labor duties.

他认为为国尽忠就应该,通过缴税或者服劳役来履行国家义务

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It sits there in the garage, or basement or shed,going to waste."

VOA: special.2009.11.16

It's more like "heavy" or "saturated," and there's again pigs running around.

与其说“漂亮“不如说“浓重“,或者“饱满“,四处乱跑的猪又在这里出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"They may not be on the streets begging or they may not be turning into criminals, but it's there.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now the number one reason, and we have to acknowledge it up front, is usually economically there's no alternative or people believe there's no alternative.

首要原因，我们必须承认，通常是因为，经济上没有其他选择,或者人们认为别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

When I think, there is a growing body of knowledge which says it is not one or the other.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"It seems like the differences in opinion vary as many as there are different organizations or groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He positions pro-censorship argument alongside anti-censorship rhetoric or metaphor, and there are dozens of moments in which it's just these opposites that are being asked to coexist in some kind of peace.

他把支持控制出版的论点和反对控制出版的修辞和,比喻放在一起，有无数次这样的对立,被要求和平共处在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"So if you are going to end it, you end it on your terms and your time or you wait until there is a crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

So, if we start instead with talking about the energy levels, we can relate these to frequency, because we already said that frequency is related to, or it's equal to the initial energy level here minus the final energy level there over Planck's constant to get us to frequency.

如果我们从讨论能级开始，我们可以联系到频率上,因为我们说过频率和能量相关,或者说等于初始能量,减去末态能量除以普朗克常数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Republican Kyle Hoefling disagrees. "I think there is going to be a price paid by anyone who voted for it or showed support for it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

They're out there, you can gather them, you can hunt them, you can fish them, or you can grow them, you can do something but it's out there in nature.

它们就存在于自然界,可以采集,可以通过狩猎获取,可以垂钓,或者种植它们,它们就在自然界中,只要你取之有道

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Just feeling there was somebody who I could unite with, It could be just having breakfast together or just walking together for a few blocks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.

所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But,it was the longest republic and it lasts from, depending on when you start it-- and you can read about that-- whether you start it in 1875 or 1877, or when there really was a Republic, the early '80s-- it lasts until May,June 1940.

但这是一个持续时间最长的共和国,它持续了,取决于你如何判定它的开始时间,你可以在书上读到,从1875年还是1877年,还是从真正形成共和国,也就是从八十年代初开始,它持续到1940年六月

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选