This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

You take a material like silver and put it in a glass case and that's the definition of a meter.

你拿某种材料,比如银,把它放进玻璃柜里,那是一米的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

and I really liked, you know, the material and I felt like I had the natural ability for it,

我很喜欢课堂上接触到的那些会计知识，而且我感觉我在这方面有天赋。

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The American soldier was said to be like galvanized iron, a material produced for special strength.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

So this really rips the material that I'd like to cover in this brief conversation with you.

这就是,我在和你们这段简短的,交谈中想要含盖的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

You can also perform a test. Take some of the material and add enough water to it to make it seem like you are making bread.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Okay, so when you are working with source material that looks like this, there is in fact no such thing as infinite zoom in computer science.

当我们处理,这样的原数据时，事实上计算机科学中,并不存在无限放大。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The new indicators would also include non-material 'wealth', like access to education and health care.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Like animals, we possess physical material bodies, but unlike animals, what we are is not physical.

我们和动物一样拥有有形的生理客体,但与动物不同,我们的本质却并非是生理的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And,by filling in the blanks, they see the real material that been used in the reconstruction, but they also see what the animal looks like in its entirety."

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

So you pick a better material like iron and steel, that makes a better bridge, we know that now because we have experience with bridges, but still your bridge might fail.

你选择了钢铁作为材料,来造了一座更好的桥,我们现在能够明晰这一点,是因为在造桥这件事上我们现在很有经验,但即使是我们现在造的桥也仍然会倒塌

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So from that point on it'll be exam 2 material, so depending on how you like to come compartmentalize your information, you can separate that in your brain in terms of what you're trying to learn right now versus what you can put off until a little bit later.

因此从这里开始以后的是第二次考试的内容，当然，取决于你喜欢怎样划分,你的信息，但你可以将你现在要学的,与你以后才学的知识,在你的大脑中分开储存。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So we have this pulse, and it's just kind of out there streaming, but we don't like undifferentiated, disorganized material in the West.

我们拥有这种律动,而且就像泉水一样流淌出来,但在西方国家我们不喜欢,没有差别的,杂乱无章的素材

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So you build it with a material like silver and gold, and then you encounter the problems of society that your bridge might get stolen because somebody thinks they have a better use for silver and gold than your bridge.

但如果你用金或银这样的材料,你又会面对新的问题,你的桥会被偷走,因为有人认为金和银有比造桥更好的用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

There is considerable evidence for different forms of innate knowledge and innate desires and we'll look--and we'll talk about it in detail when we look at case studies like language learning, the development of sexual preference, the developing understanding of material objects.

大量不同形式的证据,证明了先天知识和先天欲望的存在,当我们讲到语言学习，性偏好发展,以及物质客体理解的发展，等主题的个案研究时，会来细讲这些证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So for some you that are less interested in maybe the physical structure of an individual atom, now some more exciting material for you might be coming up if you like to think about how, instead, molecules behave, either within bonding, within themselves, or with other molecules, that's what we're going to be heading to in this next unit.

那么对于某些同学，你们或许不感兴趣,对于单个原子的物理结构，现在可能有令你感到兴奋的内容,要出现了，如果你更喜欢思考,分子的行为，或者是关于成键的，或者是关于它们本身的，又或者与其它分子之间的行为，这些将是我们下个单元要讲的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选