There is a small hole in the side to drain out extra moisture and keep from drowning the plants.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I got to, I'm from San Francisco, so I got to keep skating here.

我就是从旧金山开始滑滑板的，我来自这里，所以我也会一直滑下去。

滑板的故乡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The idea is to help keep a competitive balance by preventing the wealthiest teams from getting all the good players.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And it just gonna be... I really look forward to having someone who I can keep speaking to, keep learning from, and keep sharing my ideas with, and keep having that open, just an open door.

将会是，我非常期待,能够有一个像他这样可以一直聊天，一直学习，分享我们的看法，一直可以对他敞开心门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So many bright lights shooting into the sky from the gardens would keep Princess Lenore from seeing the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

It's folly to think that we have about us protective spirits who might actually keep us from harm.

认为真的有神灵在周围,庇佑我们不受伤害是愚蠢的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

You can keep people alive for many decades with periodic dialysis to remove waste products from the blood.

通过周期性的透析除去血液中的代谢废物,可以使病人寿命延长几十年

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They would put out sacrifices of food and light fires to keep the spirits from doing any harm to the living.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

That motivated insurance salesmen to form long-term relationships with the families that he was insuring and to keep them from canceling their policies.

这种机制促使保险推销员与客户,建立起长期合作关系,以防止客户取消保单

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

had no legal basis for an effort to keep Comcast from limiting access to some services over its network.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

And also, keep in mind that I have office hours today from 3 to 5.

还有一件事就是,要记住我的答疑时间是今天下午三点到五点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They searched for germplasms that could keep plants from weakening and wilting during hot, dry summers in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

and keep on going back to home because this is where it comes from.

因为这些源自家庭，所以最终还是会不断回归家庭。

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

By selling it to the government, the mining interests hoped to keep the price of silver from falling.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The Union commander,General Hooker, had to keep his army between Lee and Washington to prevent the Confederates from seizing the national capital.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

I won't get into definitions of what torture is but it would cause somebody tremendous pain and anguish to keep them from sleeping.

我就不解释什么是施刑了,如果不让人睡觉的话,会给人造成巨大的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They had to keep the herd together day and night and protect it from bad men and Indians.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

We're not going to talk about sociological attitudes that we have towards the dying in our culture and how we tend to try to keep the dying hidden from the rest of us.

我们不会去讨论在我们的文化中,面对死亡的社会学态度,以及我们如何试着去避免面对死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He sent Northern forces to battle the slave-holding Southern states to keep them from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Aside from that, just keep travelling and climbing and meeting new people.

除此以外，继续旅行、攀岩和见新的人。

拍照的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In this way,Roosevelt and Willkie tried to keep America's growing involvement in the war from becoming a major political issue in the election.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Hobbes wants this sort of dictatorship to keep people from brawling in the state of nature.

他希望建立一个类似独裁的政府,以制止人们在"自然状态"下的争斗

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But others say he wrote this way because he was left-handed and writing backwards was easier and helped keep the ink from smearing.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

So I want to keep away from her as much as possible.

我想要尽可能远离她。

I've already 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

President Abraham Lincoln is fighting to keep the Southern states of the Confederacy from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

and so many emissions are going to keep coming from.

而且未来还会持续地增高。

全球变暖与国力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

to try to keep those things from happening again.

来试图防止这些事情再次发生。

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人