More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

It's a force in itself that's much you know more powerful than we are as individuals.

自然本身便有如此大的威力,要比人类更加强大。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There are all sorts of states. Some are more powerful than others.

德意志地区有很多邦国,其中一些比较强大

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Today's large passenger planes have fewer but more powerful engines than older models.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

It's huge. There is no more powerful marketing force in contemporary fiction than Oprah's Book Club.

这很可观，就现代小说而言,没有能与奥普拉的书友会相提并论的营销力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Treaty of Westphalia officially put an end to the 30 Years War, but more than that it ratified two decisive features that would be given powerful expression by Hobbes.

威斯特伐利亚条约》正式结束了,三十年战争，比这更重要的是，出现了两个决定性的特征,霍布斯将会给这两个特征有力的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's a more powerful method than something called a cross-sectional study, and I'll come back in a later lecture and talk about these in more detail, but a cross-sectional study means you're taking a snapshot of a population of people at one time.

这种方法比所谓的横断面研究更加有效,我将在以后的课中,再仔细讨论这个问题,但横断面研究是指,你一次记录下一群人的状况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.

如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There is nothing more symptomatic of the growth of absolute rule than the growth of powerful armies.

没有什么比日益扩充的强大军队,更能代表绝对主义了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选