He says China is working to narrow the difference between its strength during the Olympic Summer and Winter Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

It is a glass tube. He wants to narrow the light so he puts a couple of slits here.

这是根玻璃管子，他想要减少光的发散,所以在这里开了几个口子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But it's not a very good thing if my consciousness continues to narrow and constrict beyond the threat, or beyond the hardship.

但它变得不是很好,如果我的意识继续狭窄,收紧超出威胁，超出困难。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Critics of the idea say the living areas in submarines are too small and narrow for men and women to serve together.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Most of the work we're going to talk about in this class-- most of the ideas are narrow.

本课程中所学习的大部分理论,大部分学术观点-,它们的应用范围都是狭隘的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some canopies have narrow strips of metal or wood to provide either sunlight or shade, depending on the position of the sun.

VOA: special.2011.08.09

In portraying the deity, I would think, if I were to write an epic poem - I would feel that I would be expected to stay within the fairly narrow parameters of religious decorum.

要表现神性，我认为，要是我要写一首史诗的话,-我肯定会觉得不能越出,宗教教义狭窄的界限。

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She uses both hands to finger-tap on the flat narrow part of the guitar called the fretboard.

VOA: special.2011.01.28

And then he just takes that narrow column of light and he admits it to a prism. And what the prism does is takes a tiny, tiny difference in wavelength and refracts it through a different angle.

他只取了那个窄光柱,然后把它对准一个棱镜，棱镜所做的就是,测量出波长的细微差别,然后从不同的角度测定它的折射度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The little city of Cape May lies at the end of a narrow piece of land with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Delaware Bay to the west.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

If I went on and told you what the different incident light was, and what the electrons were ejected with, and then you could look up the ionization energy for the particular different elements, you should be able to actually determine exactly which element it is, but just with the information given, we can only narrow it down to these choices here.

如果我继续告诉大家入射光源是什么，出射电子的动能是多少，那么你可以去查一查,以上各个元素的电离能，这样你就应该能确定,这个元素到底是哪个，但是只凭题目中的信息，我们只能把范围缩小至以上几种元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Waziristan is full of narrow valleys and barren mountains and it's a God-given country for any guerilla to fight in,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

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The U.S.Navy and the navies of dozens of other countries are patrolling the narrow waterway to deter ship hijackings-for-ransom by pirate gangs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

You narrow down until you're sensitive just to the language you hear.

你逐渐缩小敏感的范围,直到只对你所使用的语言敏感

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The measure was passed by a narrow 23 to 22 vote with one member not participating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And what will happen is as a result, I experience sadness, because that is what I am thinking about, and sadness-- a painful emotion, not a positive emotion-- leads to further narrow and constrict.

结果就是，我感觉悲伤，因为我一心只想那个，悲伤-,是一种痛苦的情绪，一种消极情绪-,导致进一步的收窄缩紧。

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"We were able to match up the narrow and wide rings exactly so that we can assign the exact calendar dates to the exact rings of every tree."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Once we've made some generalizations about language in this narrow sense, we could then ask, and we will ask, to what extent do other systems such as animal communication systems relate to this narrower definition.

一旦我们在狭义上,得出了某些关于语言的概论,那我们就可以发问,诸如动物交流系统之类的其他系统,会在多大程度上,符合这个狭隘的定义呢

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

While some of their clients are middle class professionals from the community at large, many brothels will only accept a narrow clientele to make it difficult for law enforcement to catch them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

They look in the professional people who are able to manage their emotions better and lead to positive emotions, get out of this narrow and constrict to the broaden and build are in the long term more successful.

他们调查专业人士,能更好地控制自己的情绪,获得积极情绪，脱离狭窄收紧进入扩建的人,长远会取得更大成功。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So we could ask, in this narrow sense, what properties do languages have and then go on to ask, in a broader sense, what other communicative systems also possess those properties.

我们可以发问,从狭义上说,语言拥有何种特性,然后我们可以接着发问,从广义上说,哪些其他的交流系统也同样拥有那些特性

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