One reason for not cheating is that a person might fear being criticized in public for cutting in line.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And if the best the soul theorist can say is, "I can't explain it and neither can you," that's not a reason to believe this side.

如果灵魂理论者最多只能说,我不能解释,你也不能,这不是一个相信灵魂存在的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think the reason why triathlon is not so, so big is just because it requires a lot of time.

我认为铁人三项运动之所以不够普及，
是因为它需要大量的时间。

对体育项目的热爱 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

bug It's not true now. If there is a bug in the program it's there for only one reason.

如果程序中有一个,那一定是有原因的，是你通过例如犯了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The idea is for hospitals to send a clear message that there is no reason not to report this kind of accident.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

So, if you're looking for another reason to quit, if you're looking for a reason not to start smoking, here's another good one.

因此，如果你正在寻找戒烟的另一个理由，如果你正在寻找一个不开始吸烟的理由，这就是很好的一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

One reason for this was that he did not want people to know that his mother was in a hospital for insane people.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

It is directed against Canaanites only, not all non-Israelites, for a very specific reason: religious purity.

这只指迦南人，而不是所有以色列人之外的人，有一个明确的原因，宗教圣洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This month's announcement did not say how long he might be away or give a reason.

VOA: special.2011.01.28

Well, it's just to keep the numbers-- there's actually not a very good reason to do splits.

其实只是为了维持一定的数量,实际上分割并没有很好的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and Afghan governments have not done a good job of communicating the real reason for troops being sent to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Needless to say, it's the central word in Derrida, which is nevertheless not classifiable or categorizable, and so for that reason we can't really say Derrida is specifically a literary theorist.

不用说，这个词对德里达来说至关重要，然而我们确实无法对话语进行分类，因此，我们恐怕不能称,德里达为文学理论家。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

All the more reason, Cwajgenbaum says, for a film like La Rafle - so French and Europeans do not forget the Holocaust's lessons.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

It's not that, as far as I can see, the fact that she's going to be a corpse gives you any reason not to kiss her.

就我所看到的而言，她会变成尸体这个事实并没有,给你任何理由不去亲吻她。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"There is another reason which of course they do not say, and it is understood by a number of people, including myself, that Iran-Ayatollah Khamenei wants the bomb,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Practical reason perhaps is a sense of what will work and what will not.

实际理由可能是,意不意识得到,哪种方式可行的差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But there's a reason such farms are not more widespread,Lent said.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

I can change everything overnight; it does happen. I put that in for a reason because sometimes some of you have not taken a physics course and you don't know how to do well in physics and slowly you catch on and by the time it's Final exam you crack the code; you know how to do well.

我能一夜之间扭转乾坤,确实有过这样的例子,我这样做是因为,有时你们中有人可能以前没上过物理课,不知道怎样学好物理,但慢慢地你赶了上来,到期末考试的时候,你忽然灵光一闪,考起试来得心应手

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"You've got some people involved who have a grandiose plot for some fanatical reason to put a bomb in the center of New York, but they're not very adept at explosives or bomb-making.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Hunger is not essentially a message to other people but when humans when it involves a loud noise the reason why we've evolved loud noises is to communicate with other people.

饥饿不是一个传达给别人的信息,但人类会发出很大的声音,我们为什么会进化出很大的声音,就是为了与人沟通。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The reason it's aluminum is because aluminum has a lower z effective, so it's not being pulled in as tightly by the nucleus, and if it's not being pulled in as tightly, you're going to have to put in less energy in order to ionize it, so that's why it's actually going to have the smaller ionization energy.

原因是,铝的有效核电量更少，所以没有被原子核束缚得更紧，而如果没有被束缚得更紧，你为了电离它所需要注入的能量也就更少，这就是,它的电离能会更低的原因。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A bold claim would say, "The facts about death, if I thought about them, would change my behavior, but not because it would give me a reason to change my behavior-- " simply because it would influence my behavior."

一个大胆的观点会认为，“关于死亡的事实，如果我考虑了它们，就会改变我的行为，但不是因为它给了我改变行为的理由-,只是因为它影响了我的行为“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If these are facts about how Peggy Sue likes to kiss and tell, or then goes around and talks about who's a good kisser and who's a bad kisser, maybe that gives you a reason to not continue what you're doing.

如果这些是关于Peggy，Sue如何喜欢接吻并告诉，或者然后到处去谈论谁是接吻高手,谁接吻很烂的事实的话，也许那就给了你一个不再继续你此时行为的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is a reason or speech, not instinct, that makes us political.

是理法或辩论能力而非本能，使我们具有政治性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选