It is not always clear that eating something as harmless as wheat can be bad for a person's health.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

It's not bad for the person who dies.

对死者本身并无好坏可言。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

On the other hand,she says, having to go elsewhere for activities is not necessarily a bad thing.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Now, this is not essentially a bad thing for a couple of reasons.

这些刻板印象并不都是坏事,这当中有几个原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You could say,for example, that a bad idea is not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?

我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the news is not all bad. The Commerce Department reports orders for U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

If they're failing they should cut their dividend, but companies are reluctant to do that because it looks bad, so they hold off for a long time, not cutting.

如果效益不好他们应该减少红利,但是公司不愿意这样做,是因为这样显得很糟糕,所以他们一直拖延着不去减少红利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because they are coming forward to give you blood, but at the end of it they may end up with bad news that they were not prepared for."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"This year it is very important for us to in a consensus, we decide together, not to look for war and not to repeat the bad experience we had during these last 10 years,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

And this is useful because if you're actually writing a program that's interactive or that you want to change overtime much like you would a game, hopefully, the game is not going to have the bad guys, for instance, always standing in the same place or the rocks or whatever it is falling from the sky in the same place 'cause it would very quickly become a very tedious game.

这是很有用的，因为如果,写一个交互的程序或者,希望每次游戏都不一样，我们希望，游戏中的坏人物，别老是站在同一个地方或者同一块石头上,或者从天空中同样的位置落下,因为这立刻会使游戏变得乏味。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"It might not be a bad idea to let people know verbally, out loud,for all the world to see, , the kind of support,at least talk, that we appreciate what they are doing and that we are inspired by their courage.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

You can see down here its affect on cholesterol levels: that the bad fats raise the LDL levels, the low-density lipoproteins levels, that's not good for you.

在下面你可以看到它对胆固醇含量的影响,坏脂肪会提高LDL含量,低密度脂蛋白含量,这是对身体不好的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?

至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说，“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选