The artist can then add a second color of glass to make designs over the first layer of glass.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So if you end up not doing well, the moral of the story is not to go running off and dropping the class, but to figure out what you did right, what you didn't do right, how to make the second paper better and the third paper stronger, again.

所以如果你们最终没有得到好成绩，这个课程不是让你们退却或是退课，但是去想想你所做的对的事，和不对的事，和怎么样让接下来的论文写得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The second assumption we're going to make which is new is that we're going to assume that candidates cannot choose their position.

我们给出的第二个假设,这个新的假设是,候选人不能选择他们的位置

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"We have got to make sure that this second round is not marred by fraud and corruption like the first round,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

One group of children was a control group; the second group was taught to think back to experience that make them laugh or smile.

一群小孩组成对照组;,有人教第二组小孩回想,让他们大笑或微笑的经历。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Iranian authorities have allowed Swiss diplomats to make only two consular visits to the detained Americans, the first in September and the second last week.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

So we're to assume we can get to any piece of data, any instruction in constant time, and the second assumption we're going to make is that the basic primitive steps take constant time, same amount of time to compute. Again, not completely true, but it's a good model, so arithmetic operations, comparisons, things of that sort, we're all going to assume are basically in that in that particular model.

因此如果我们假设在恒定的时间内,我们可以取得任何一块数据,任何一种数据结构的话,我们要做的第二个假设就是,基本的原始操作计算花费的时间是恒定的,这个假设也不是完全正确的，但这个模型其实挺不错的，因此算法操作，比较，这一类的事情，我们在这个特定的模型中都假设是基本的,操作，花费的时间是恒定相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If the so called "double dip" scenario happens,in which the economy starts to shrink again, Baily says it would make a strong case for a second stimulus something the Obama administration hopes will not be necessary.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20