The discovery is exciting because it suggests that the building blocks of life may be more common in the universe than scientists had thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

I'm then printing bracket one, bracket two, bracket three, bracket dot, dot, dot up until the total number of arguments, 1 whatever that may be, and it's going to be at least one because the program always has a name.

然后我打印，括号等等等，知道打印完所有的参数，不管那个最大值可能是什么，它将至少为,因为程序总是有一个名字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I'm going to turn--I'm going to reflect on this because he may not be pleased with the article.

我之所以想这么做,是因为他看到后可能会不高兴

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because of the gravity on Mars, spacesuits may have to be designed to be lighter than suits used in orbit or on the moon.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

If you wish to change sections, you may do so only with permission of the subject administrators because it's very important that those sections be kept at a small population.

如果你们想要改时间，你只能在课程管理主任允许,的情况下这样做,因为让课程的人数保持在比较少的水平,是很重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Hepatitis B is the silent killer because most people who are chronically infected may not be aware of the infection."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

That sign languages may be full-blown languages but they just take--they're just harder to learn because the brain and the body have adapted for speech.

手语或许是成熟的语言,但它们更难学,因为大脑和身体已经适应了口语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says because GM crops can be designed to be resistant to insects and disease they may also be better for the environment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Let me show you an example of the first possibility, because that's the one I think we may be overlooking when we assume that disregarding can't ever make any sense.

让我给你们一个第一种可能的例子，因为我认为我们可能会忽视它,当我们假设无视根本说不通时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The most potent reason that Asian-Americans are increasingly joining the army may just be because they now see top-level officers who look like them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission estimates that at least 100-thousand children may not be able to continue their education because of the suspension of donor funds.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

That may be the thing that has the biggest value, because let's say if you have guys in the product development team, and they're using one particular way of doing things, another team is using something completely different, off in another country, somebody's using something different.

它可能是最有价值的，因为如果,产品研发团队，使用某种做事方式，另外一个团队用完全不同的做事方式，在不同国家，做事方式是不同的。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

But former CIA officer Robert Grenier says the claim may well be true because of their threats of retaliation over U.S.drone aircraft attacks against the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But many analysts also say that may be a temporary situation, because they don't expect the measure to be taken up by the full House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

or the United States," "There well may be a number of people who are considered Taliban because they get paid to fight, because they see no alternative."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

School is supposed to start in September. But,the agency says 3,700 schools may not be available for classes because they are being used to house 150,000 internally displaced people.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

While the results may be disappointing, proponents of testing say identifying even a small number of people is worth the effort because early treatment saves lives and can prevent the spread of HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"Both this and the previous government made this 'chain of terror' argument where we have to be in Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaida moving from Pakistan back into Afghanistan because that may prevent future terrorist attacks on the streets of London.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14