Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The amount of work you've put in to get here depends on the path. It's not a function of state.

这些量就能,决定系统的状态了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.

但是就兼职和短期工而言，工作似乎没变少，可能还更多了。

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But sixty-six percent agreed that a professor should consider effort and not just the quality of a student's work when deciding grades.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

You'll also see in a little while why both of these things would work this way, but it's not what I wanted. OK?

我应该把括弧,而不是方括号放在这里，你们稍后就会,明白为什么这两个符号在这里都是行得通的？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I work at home so I just hoped that my computer would work right and not have a bad hair day also.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

And the way you show respect for a philosopher is by taking those arguments seriously and asking yourself, do they work or not?

因此对一位哲学家表示尊敬的方式应该是,认真地对待他们的论证,并且问你自己,那些论证是否说的通

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's not what we have. It's a state-driven measure. High standards,challenging work for young people across the country.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

I mean, you certainly could make a fortune buying them I mean, I'm certainly not telling you it's not going to work, but I think it's all risk-reward.

我的意思是，你很可能会通过它们赚很多钱,我是说，我肯定不会告诉你说,那一点也行不通，但我觉得高风险才有高回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She may work with cowboys, but she says that does not mean she cannot make something more feminine once in a while.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And the medicines for a cobra bite in the Philippines may not work for someone bitten by a similar snake in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.

这样我做了一年的顾问，之后他们请我做了院长，副院长，这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情，还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Most of these companies say their work should only be used as models and should not be turned in as a finished work.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But usually, if you are not able to work out something in terms of taking the exam at a different time,

不过通常情况下，你不太可能被允许换个时间参加考试，

临时抱佛脚？也做过 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I did not work only a few hours each day -- no banker's hours for me.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

It might be like a single, a single mother, you know. She might not get home from work until like 6.

也有可能是个单亲母亲。她下班到家可能要6点之后了。

哈莱姆的变迁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Even with the ADA, a lot of work remains to reach the goal of equality for the disabled -- and not just in America.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

A psychology that will look at also things that work, that were not just study-- depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and neurosis.

需要着眼于有用的东西，不仅仅是研究-,抑郁，焦虑，精神分裂，神经症。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As a young man, Ohga reportedly owned a tape recorder that did not work well.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.

你不得不整年的喂养奴隶,而他们只有少量时间在工作,这是很不划算的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As a result, they were not prepared for all the work and caused environmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

But our engineers work in a three-star hotel, not very flashy, not on the spotlight, and I only promised them to raise their salaries twice a year.

而我们的工程师在三星级酒店工作，不豪华，更不引人关注，我只承诺每年涨两次薪水。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

His father,a tribal chief, did not think basketball was "good work for a Dinka."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

In other words, here is a moment when Levi-Strauss is admitting something about his own work which he is not admitting in his analysis of the Oedipus myth in the essay from Structural Anthropology that you read last time.

换句话说，在这里，列维承认了,关于自己作品的一些观点，而这些观点,是他在《结构人类学》中的那篇文章中,分析俄狄浦斯神话时所没有承认的,大家上次读过那篇文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She has said that she will not be making a record every six months, so she might as well work with as many experts as she can.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Now, if that's the sort of thing you know about Freud, you are not going to have a very high opinion of him or of his work, but at the core of Freud's declamation, the more interesting ideas, is a set of claims of a man's intellectual importance.

如果大家对于弗洛伊德的了解仅限于此，一定不会对他及其学说给予太高的评价，不过弗洛伊德理论的核心，也是更有价值的观点，是一系列关于人类理性的主张。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选