Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

You blame yourself as a victim of trauma for not having the sufficient vigilance in your outer cortex to ward it off.

你会因为你的脑皮层,不能有效保护你不受创伤危害,而成为创伤受害者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think there're a lot of people just enjoying the sunshine maybe with their tops off, not doing very much,

我想很多人就是来享受阳光的，可能脱了上衣，并不做什么，

海德公园的氛围 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The Turks have the saying because the Turks are very good at starting things off but not necessarily finishing them.

土耳其人非常擅长于开始某件事，但是并不一定完成事情,但是并不一定完成事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The goal of virtual office hours is if you're sitting down in mather or the quad or wherever, even off campus on some weekend, we'll still hold, not as many, but some virtual office hours.

虚拟办公时间的目标是，如果你坐在,院子里或其他地方，甚至是某个周末不在学校里,我们仍然保持联系，虽然不是很多，但是有一些虚拟办公时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Jackie Robinson had difficulty on and off the baseball field, but he did not let that interfere with his game.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.

他并不打算让人类从审判日的挂钩上下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They want to be sure that he is not dealing off the bottom of the stack of cards.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

The AMT is getting extended year by year anyway so why not just deal with that one time and get it off the books.

既然越来越多的人需要交替代性最低税,何不一了百了，让大家都交,然后废掉不就结了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Some educators and parents do not like the idea of sending students as young as sixteen off to college, before they may be socially ready.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Put that all down and you pretty quickly see that, regardless whether the other guy rats you or not, you're better off ratting him out.

先放下手里的事,快速思考一下,不管那个家伙是不是坦白了,你最好要坦白

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If that is not possible, then clean off the equipment and your shoes when leaving.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

He wrote once that, "The chief thing is to know your duties and our edicts by heart and not put off things until tomorrow, like his son did.

他曾经这样写道,"最要紧的事就是牢记我们的职责和法令,并且不把今天能做的事拖延到明天去做",他儿子就是这么拖沓的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

It's a bit more-- to continue with the metaphor of the on-of switch-- as though not only is the switch turned to off, there's a lock on the switch.

要继续用开关的比喻-,就有点奇怪了-,似乎开关的上面，还有一个锁定装置。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example, the gunfight did not really take place in the OK Corral, but near it in a field just off a main street in town.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"...the victim,who has not been identified, was killed instantly. Reports say it appears she was pushed off the station platform into the path of the oncoming train.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

The force may taper off, the force may not be given by a straight line, but for modest deformations, every spring will have a linear regime in which the force is linearly proportional to the stretching.

它产生的力可能会渐渐消失,力的曲线可能不是一条直线,而有轻微的弯曲,每个弹簧都有一个线性区间,在这一区间内,力和伸长量是线性关系

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He says dinosaurs probably could not get off the ground to fly.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Well it's not--it's really off the diagram.

其实它已经到图的外面去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The cowboys try not to fall off.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

But what she's working off of here— we're not going to listen to the whole thing-- is this idea of a blues scale.

但她处理这段曲子的方法,我们不是要全部听完,是布鲁斯音阶的理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Not only did the gold show off a family's wealth and status, it was portable and easily sold in a crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Ahn Choong Sung, head of the company that will sell the mobile harbor vessels, says success is not far off.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

we're not going to talk about the funeral industry in America and how it rips off people, which it does, in their moments of grief and weakness and overcharges them for the various things that it offers.

我们也不会讨论美国的丧葬行业,以及他们如何敲诈百姓，实际上就是这样，在他们悲伤脆弱的时候,对他们提供的各种服务漫天要价。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The thing is still not dominated and we could still have done exactly the same analysis, and actually you can see I'm not very far off in the numbers I made up, but things are not perfectly symmetric.

这虽然不能成为劣势策略,但我们还是能得出一样的分析结果,实际上这和我编的数字相差也不是很远,凡事并不总是绝对对称的嘛

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选