Robert Pinksy says poetry is also like dance -- an art form where the medium is the human body itself.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

So, you take a sentence like -This is a classic line from Groucho Marx: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.

举例来说,这是《格劳乔·马克斯》的经典台词,"我曾在我的睡衣里射杀了一头大象

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's like, because people down there, there are a lot of clothing designers, like up-and-coming clothing designers too,

它就像，因为有很多人来光顾，所以这儿有很多服装设计师，或者即将成为设计师的人，

关于SOHO - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

That's a lot of what stem cell biology is like - is about.

干细胞生物学的著作有很多

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Last week,we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the green Martians and a race of red, human-like creatures.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So imagine the following example, an invader is thinking about invading a country, and there are two ways -- there are two passes if you like -- through which he can lead his army.

想象一下这样的例子,一个侵略者打算入侵一个国家,有两条路,想象成两个关口也行,侵略者必须通过一个才能进入

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Others say it was a smart business move -- like his decision to create a regional sports network on cable television.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

They like to--when they're computing the investment yield, they want to be completely honest and not use any rules of thumb.

当他们计算投资收益率的时候,他们需要完全精确,而非用经验公式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A stopper device on the tube-like container held food for the ants as they traveled to their new homes.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Now I'd like to end -I think I have a few minutes here--I'd like to end with a particular piece.

现在我想差不多快结束了,应该还有几分钟,那就用特殊的一段曲子来结束吧

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Shirley Griffith tells us about this singer and songwriter with a voice that is child-like, yet mysterious and forceful.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The images you'll see are a little something like this-- absolutely mesmerizing what will be on each of your screens and oh there is also some popcorn toward term's end.

你会看到一些这样的图片-,出现在屏幕上的那些有趣的照片,学期结束时还有爆米花吃。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She had let herself be controlled by some machine-like force that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

If you took out somebody's cortex and flattened it out, it would be two feet square, sort of like a nice--like a rug.

如果你取出某人的大脑皮层,把它摊开,会有两平方英尺那么大,有点像一张地毯

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

An application is a software program that lets users do a task -- like listen to music or find directions.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Like the Russian formalists--and in a way like the New Critics -talking about their "academic" colleagues, Saussure is vexed by the messiness and lack of system in the study of linguistics.

这一点和形式主义者，新批评论者,这些学院派的人们很相像，索绪尔对语言学的杂乱,和无章感到恼火。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard spent several days in a hospital-like center in Shanghai,China.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

who will help me out？ They find themselves surrounded, and Paris is--it's nothing like- - it's one-third the size of London at this same time, or at any other time, but it has a huge circumference.

谁来帮我下,他们发现自己被包围了,巴黎成为,巴黎已经大不如前,它仅仅相当于,当时或其他时期伦敦规模的三分之一,还是一个巨大的牢笼

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And some people dream about being somewhere else where it is warm and pretty - like the state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He also tried hypnosis. He wanted to see if putting patients into a sleep-like condition would help ease troubled minds.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

So, if we look at this graph where what we're charting is the internuclear distance, so the distance between these two hydrogen atoms, as a function of energy, -- what we are going to see is a curve that looks like this -- this is the general curve that you'll see for any covalent bond, and we'll explain where that comes from in a minute.

因此，如果我们来看一看这幅曲线图,这里我们画的横坐标是核间距，也就是这两个氢原子之间的距离，纵坐标是能量，我们看到的这是能量关于核间距的曲线-,这是一条普遍的曲线，在研究任何共价键时你都会遇到，我们马上就会解释一下它是怎么来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The group has simpler ideas -- like reducing water use at schools and other buildings in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

I'd like to introduce a representative from "Teach for America" which is an organization that has done and is doing a lot of good, promoting goodness in the world and I'd like to-- in 1504, we've been supporting them for the last 2 years and we'd like to continue to do that.

我想介绍一位来自“为美国而教“的代表“,这个组织一直致力于做好事，在世界上宣扬善，我想…,这门课，过去两年一直向他们提供支持,我们希望继续下去。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Getting a grade like a B-plus or a C-minus adds or subtracts a few tenths of a point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

So it's called Art Macabre. So it's all kind of like quite dark and like death-themed events,

它被称作艺术群魔。所以它画的都是一些类似黑暗、死亡主题的事物，

在市场遇到的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That's like -1 times a vector.

那相当于-1乘以一个矢量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选