Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

You might think that its function is to make you more - a better cyclist but that's not its only function.

你也许只知道它的作用是--,使你成为一个更好的自行车手,但这并不是它的唯一功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As recently as last week China said it would not discuss the dispute over its currency at the Toronto summit.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

But i was attracted by Princeton precisely because engineering was not its primary focus.

但我选择了普林斯顿,正是因为,工程学并不是它的重点关注对象。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

Recognition of the harm asbestoscan do and the ban on its new uses did not take place until recently.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

He is also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly a change that Yeats sees as the end now of the Christian Era and not its fulfillment.

他还说,基督在伯利恒的诞生,是一个噩梦，因为世界因此改变，彻底变了,叶芝把这个改变,看作基督时代的终结,而不是它的圆满。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

His mind had lost its sharpness. This did not worry Buchanan, because he had planned to be his own foreign minister.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In other words, the judgment of beauty does not depend on the existence of the object for its satisfaction.

换句话说，审美不会依赖于,事物自己的存在形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

But calculating it alone doesn't necessarily tell us whether or not it will just happened of its own accord.

但是计算这些物理量并不一定能够告诉我们,这些变化是否会自发的进行,而这正是我们想要做到的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The Food and Drug Administration is not required to follow the advice of its committees, but generally does.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Not only now, but, I think, on some level it has always struck some of its readers as ludicrous.

不仅是在现在，我觉得，一直以来都有读者,会觉得这是荒唐可笑的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Such problems had led Air France to begin replacing older sensors on some of its Airbus planes, but not the one that crashed.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

If de Broglie is correct, we could then model the electron in its orbit not moving as a particle, but let's model it as a wave.

如果德布罗意是对的，那么我们可以在电子轨道中建立电子模型,不是像粒子一样运动，而是像波一样运动。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

When the show first aired, some of its creators were not sure it would last one season.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

These are not the only problems posed by the Western tradition in its modern form, which is what we live in.

这些问题不仅仅存在于,西方现代社会,也就是,我们现在生活的社会

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Pumps that were used to keep the mine dry have not been in operation since its closure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

All right. The creativity argument may not work, but there's something that sort of immediately comes on its heels.

这些关于创造力的观点或许行不通,但是有些东西,随之而来

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"In the name of the State of Tennessee, I order you not to defy its laws.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

And there are theories who say that by its definition film is not literary but it's a visual art.

也有理论家认它的定义说明,电影并非文学,而是一种视觉的艺术。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But limited liability means the actions of a corporation are not the responsibility of its shareholders.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

In there, I want to make this distinction, this nuance: the evaluator is still going to be taking those expressions and using its rules to get a value, but it's not going to print them back out.

在这里，我想要做这么一个，细微差别：运算器依然会,对表达式,进行求值，但是不会,显示结果值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I did not understand how a person surrounded by the joy of music could not have some of its sense and beauty inside her.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

It's a little redundant, admittedly, but I include not the same function, but just its prototype, as I say in the comment here.

它确实是有点长的，但是我包含的不是同一个函数，而只是一个原型，就像我这里的注释所说的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But its opening night did not come until more than fifty years after Joplin's death.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

And so the mixed group that would join together to become Israel accepted Yahweh, though perhaps not exclusively, and adopted the national story of the Exodus as its own at some point.

那么这些融合的群体团结起来,成为接受耶和华的以色列，也许并不是排外的，在这时将《出埃及记》纳入变为国家历史故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It is now recombined in its very atoms, not merely in its visible and superficial parts.

它的每一个原子都重新组合,而非仅仅进行了表面的，可见的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But you're right, Trans fat is not good for you and its worse then saturated fat.

答对了,反式脂肪对健康有害,甚于饱和脂肪

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选