Gerald Meehl says a better understanding of solar activity and its influence on weather may help researchers predict long-term weather conditions.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Okay, so if you're underweight your body is depleting its fat stores and therefore that may make you unhealthy.

你的看法是如果体重过轻,身体会把储存的脂肪消耗尽,因此导致了健康问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It may be owned by other individuals but it has its own rights and responsibilities as if it were a person.

它的所有权也许属于其他个体,但它有自己权利和义务,就像个自然人一样

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But after years of building loyalty, the Japanese company may have put its quality brand name at risk, at least temporarily.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

All right. The creativity argument may not work, but there's something that sort of immediately comes on its heels.

这些关于创造力的观点或许行不通,但是有些东西,随之而来

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She explains that some people in China may celebrate Valentine's Day, but China also has its own version.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

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

The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index had its biggest jump in six years in May.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The program may no longer be able to pay all its hospital bills by two thousand seventeen.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And it may sell its Hummer brand to a heavy equipment company in China.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

That slavery may have its bad aspects but it has been the engine of good, it has been the engine of empires, the engine of wealth, the engine of greatness.

奴隶制本身也有不好的方面,但是它曾是一切善行的起源,帝国崛起的推动力,是一切财富的来源,伟大事物的起源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

California may rewrite its tax system.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The ritual cult of the Israelites may look like that of their neighbors but it functioned very differently; its purpose was drastically different from that of Israel's neighbors. The Israelites like their neighbors may have set up a king over themselves. But Israelite monarchy differed from Canaanite monarchy in significant ways because of their monotheism.

从祭拜仪式上看，以色列人和邻国类似,但操作起来很不一样，而目的则完全相反,以色列人可能会像邻国那样,拥立一位君主，然而受一神论的影响,以色列的君主政体和迦南地区的有明显差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is not like in the past." Europe may have emerged from recession, but its effects are only now becoming clear.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Some of you may have just noticed there's a little standardized pagination in our edition as well, 79 so its academy paginations is Number 79.

有人可能注意到了,我们的版本上还有些小的标准页码，所以标准页码的话是在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

General Motors earned its first quarterly profit in three years, with $865 million in net income, Reported in May.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

It shut down and partially dismantled the Yongbyon reactor, including the televised demolition of its cooling tower in May of last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Its owner,Hong Kong-based "Swire," may face fines of up to $1 million if found guilty of environmental breaches.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Its survival may depend on how willing area residents are to change their shopping and eating habits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Georgetown professor Robert Lieber says he is not surprised the White House may be shifting its position.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Diamond exporters are hoping the government will consider its demand after national elections are over in mid-May.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The Thai government has indicated it may terminate its extradition treaty with Cambodia if Mr.Thaksin is not sent back to serve his sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

'It may have seen itself as the leader but it was basically the next best thing in its own Revolutionary discourse on the market.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Faulkner says rebranding may be needed. "There are serious doubts about whether BP can retain its logo and its brand name in the way it has."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"It may turn out that H1N1 runs its course like ordinary flus, in which case, we will have prepared and we will not need all these preparations,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Iran may have mixed feelings about Turkey's rise but Ankara is firm in its resolve to prevent the likelihood of military action over its neighbor's nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

London may be famous for its red double-decker buses, but it is the underground system, parts of it more than a hundred years old, that is especially vulnerable.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

He warns that even though Google may start out by not charging for access to what it digitizes, it may eventually impose big fees to use its online library.

VOA: standard.2009.12.31