Before beginning the show, director Dadi Pudumjee asked the audience to observe a minute of silence to honor the actors and puppet experts in Japan who may have suffered after last week's major earthquake.

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And I'm going to pause for a minute, before I run it, and ask each of you to compute in your head what you think the answer should be.

我将暂停一会儿，在我运行之前，我想问问你们你们,心算得出的答案应该是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A couple of announcements before we get started: tomorrow there will be a 10 minute quiz in recitation based upon the content of homework one.

在我们开始之前有几点声明：,明天会有一个10分钟的小测验,详细叙述课后作业内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Sam All right. So, we'll move this up to the front in just a minute, but I'm going to explain how this experiment works and we'll do the calculation first before the excitement breaks out.

好的，这是她的女儿,被背带背她在胸前，这是Patti，Christie博士，好的，我们等会,会把它移到前面,但我要先解释下。

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