We must not be enemies. Though emotion may have damaged them, it must not break our ties of love."

VOA: special.2009.07.30

That slavery may have its bad aspects but it has been the engine of good, it has been the engine of empires, the engine of wealth, the engine of greatness.

奴隶制本身也有不好的方面,但是它曾是一切善行的起源,帝国崛起的推动力,是一切财富的来源,伟大事物的起源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Reaction to the speech suggested that it may have done more to unite the president's own Democrats than to gain Republican support.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

and you may have said to yourself as you were reading it, "Well, gee, isn't this sort of digressive?

读的时候你可能会对自己说，天，难道这不是离题了吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It may have played a part. But this week, officials told Congress they were still investigating the causes of the so-called flash crash.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

So the Pax Romana may have sounded great, if you were an elite, but if you were not in the elite, it may have seemed more oppressive than anything.

所以罗马和平对精英阶层听着很美好，但如果你不是精英阶层，就会觉得更像是压迫。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It found that overweight people between the ages of twenty and fifty-five may have a higher risk.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

I'm going to read passages quite a bit today, since some of you may not have been able to get the RIS packet in time, it being shopping period.

会怎样，可能有同学没拿到课件,我会多讲些，由于还没步入正轨。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Some members of Congress have questioned the costs of the F.C.C.plan and how it may affect competition.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

That ratio may have been higher in the nineteenth century; it's gradually trending down, but it's a slow-moving thing.

在19世纪这个比率要高一些,然后逐渐下降,但这是个缓慢变化的过程

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In fact,they say that in some cases it may have created more problems than it solved.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I think you may have defined it already, but I couldn't find a definition of strictly in the book we have.

我想你之前已经定义过了,但是我在课本里没有找到,“严格”的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But now it seems that T.rex may not have been as fierce as scientists once believed.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

By the way, some of it were not pleasant; the cultural wars I found very unpleasant, although it may have been the most important kinds of thing I did.

顺便说一下，这个经历并不是一直很愉快;,我自己不怎么喜欢文化论战，虽然,我最重要的工作很可能是在那个时期。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Or it may have been the funny stories Scotty told that improved Mister Johnson's health.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

You can imagine what you get: each hours worth of drama, if you like, may be great, but it may have absolutely nothing to do with the other twelve hours.

每个小时的电视剧：,如果你喜欢的话，可能很不错,但是和剩下的12个小时。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Okay, but it may be-- how many national anthems around the world do we have in minor keys?

好了,但是也许,世界上有多少个国家的国歌,采用的是小调呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And this should look kind of familiar to some of the problems you may have seen on the problem-set if you started it this weekend.

如果你们这周就开始做习题集的话,这样的题目你们,应该会觉得很熟悉。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Those who suffer from the disease may also have difficulty naming it.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Those areas that are most eager to get to the content say they may have difficulty in using it because it's not in their language or might not make sense within their culture.

那些渴望得到这些信息的地区,很可能在使用这些信息时遇到困难,因为这些信息用的不是他们的语言,或者在他们的文化里这些信息不成立。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

While other species," he notes, "may have voice, may have sounds and be able to distinguish pleasure and pain, Logos speech"--logos is his word for it.

他注明，“虽然其它动物也许能发声,也许有音调能区分出愉悦与痛苦，“辩论能力“或他所用的词汇。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It may have been influenced by his work as a newspaper reporter.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Life may have value in and of itself, but it's not mere life.

生活本身也许有价值，但却不是随便哪种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Haskins gives the president a "D" for his spending policies even though he admits it may have averted a bigger disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

I forget who--it may have been Charles Seller who said if you want to see the Market Revolution happening go study the Archives of the U.S. Patent Office.

我忘了是谁说的,大概是查尔斯.塞勒,他说,若你想看看市场革命是怎么发生的,就去研究美国专利局的档案吧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."

我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选