Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

And what's striking about these is--it's not-- these are not just sort of big, screwy problems of messed up people.

而更加惊人的是,这些并不是只疯子们,才会拥有的严重且古怪的心理问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And I produce different events, and I actually just had a big opening this past weekend. I had forty seven artists,

我创作不同的作品，而实际上，上个周末我刚办了一个开幕式。我请来了四十七个艺术家，

纽约的美术馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The planes were not big. They were just fifteen meters long with wings less than seven meters across.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

You just can't just cast it away, and say it's no big deal. But because it is a deal.

总不能置之不理，想着反正天也不会塌下来，那你就错了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Here are a few facts that help show just how big and busy Central Park is.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

You begin to realize that all of these big seemingly complicated pieces of software in websites that you use, if you just hone in on little pieces of them at a time and you realize oh I can do that and oh I can do that.

你开始意识到,你所登陆的网站上这些大而复杂的软件,如果你只对其中的一小块代码进行研究,你就会发现,哦，我也可以来做这个。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Now it's just possible that they're in that big archive somewhere, and I just haven't found them yet.

在某个,不为人知，的角落中。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People usually just call it the Big Island.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So if you're impure at home and just minding your own business, it's no big deal. It's only a problem if you decide you want to go to the sanctuary. So purity and impurity are states of qualification or disqualification for contact with sancta.

如果在家的时候不纯洁，一心只关注自己的事情，这倒不是什么大事，只有当你想去圣所的时候,才是个问题，因此纯洁和不纯洁只是表明了,你是否有资格接触圣所。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So we all went up to the Space Needle to watch the fireworks and this big cloud moved in and covered the Space Needle and so we just kind of watched the clouds and that was it."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Here's just one big book to buy. It also provides needed annotation.

只要买这一本大书就可以，这本书提供了必需的注解。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"The reason is that those plants are going to get so big that if you were to put three or four or six plants in, they are just going to be crowding each other out, and each plant is going to underperform."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

And that's all that's big enough to pass through or small enough to pass through. And if we go up even just one row on the periodic table to potassium, what we actually see is now that it's going to be too large, and, in fact, a potassium solvated with one water molecule won't go through our channel.

就是这样刚好大到它通过,或者说刚好小到它通过,即使我们再沿着周期表往下走仅仅一行到钾离子，我们看到的就将是它的个头太大了，实际上，溶解于一个水分子的单个钾离子,不能穿过我们的通道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

I think the reason why triathlon is not so, so big is just because it requires a lot of time.

我认为铁人三项运动之所以不够普及，
是因为它需要大量的时间。

对体育项目的热爱 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"It felt like a big-ole monkey was off my back,". "It just felt so good to be able to have this moment.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

What we are seeing here is a big transition from just experiment and documentation to modern chemistry.

我们见证了一个很大的过度,从只是实验和,文件材料到现代化学。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Qi says he thinks there are just two big items today a house and a car.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

That sort of thing. Makes a big difference to just get that set of eyes.

都是这样的错误,借旁观者的慧眼会对你有很大的帮助。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"You know people just dismiss it all the time when in fact it's a clear biological disorder that has very big influences on affected individuals."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

I'm just going to be paying back my debts and go bankrupt, so I'll take a big gamble and then at least I have a one in three chance of making money.

那样我就会因为要还债而破产,所以我要赌一把,至少有三分之一的机会能赢钱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

La Push Beach down at the Quileute Rez.We're all going tomorrow. - Yeah, there's a big swell coming in.- And I don't just surf the Internet.

VOA: standard.other

It was just a big hangout in the 60s and the 70s for a lot of young people.

在六七十年代，对许多年轻人来说，这儿就是他们经常光顾的地方。

在中央公园溜达 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The anti-tax,anti-big government Tea Party movement takes inspiration from the anti-tax protesters just before the American Revolution who threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

You know, really, just kind of, you know, with your head up, just looking at everything so big.

当你抬起头时，你看到的所有东西都是如此地巨大。

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I'm not big on Michael Jackson and his music. I mean,I'm just not.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Very important, so it's just... interact with as many... you know, don't just go for the big...

非常重要，所以它就是……和很多人交流互动……不要一味追求名人……

想学音乐吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I think it's just because all big comedians look the same, I don't know.

可能是所有的喜剧演员看上去都差不多吧，我也不知道。

喜欢的电视节目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人