And these are real disabilities where people are not able to work to their full capacity,can't earn an income.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

Now Milton may not be able to forget Homer, but he is able to correct Homer or to preempt Homer.

弥尔顿不能忘记荷马，但他可以改正荷马或者取代荷马。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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，

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Mister Ramirez might not have been able to express himself in English, but he could do so with his art.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

And what I recognized was first of all, how impoverishing that was spiritually to not be able to bring my faith identity into the public square.

而我意识到,第一，我们精神上很枯竭,因为我们不能将自己的宗教身份,带入公共场所。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But it was not until March tenth, eighteen seventy-six that Bell was able to send the human voice over a wire.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And then he makes some comments about how,well, ; he could never pick cotton fast enough; he's just not able to do it as black men are.

于是他对采棉花进行了一些评价，他觉得自己永远没法采摘的够快;,没法像那些黑人一样迅速。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Also,some people say they have not gotten enough details of the plan to be able to make up their minds.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

You should be able to maybe print out a blank copy of those notes from the website not for memorizing them, but now just understanding how the photoelectric effect works.

你们应该可以从网站上打印一份,这些笔记中的空白的纸张,不仅仅是为了记忆，而且现在要理解,光电效应是如何工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

So it's a useful way of not quite knowing in advance what you want to put in a string, but being able to create strings, phrases, sentences, dynamically.

这是一个很有用的方法，如果你之前不是很了解,在句子中要加入什么，但是这个方法可以,动态地创建字符串，短语，句子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Pieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate anymore.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

we tried to anticipate what companies might not be able to file and buy their bonds in advance.

我们试图去预测,什么样的公司可能没有能力发布,然后提前购买它们的债券。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Several studies have not been able to show that taking vitamin supplements in addition to a balanced diet helps to prevent disease.

VOA: special.2010.09.14

And so we're able to evaluate not just lives as a whole, looking back at the pearly gate.

所以我们不仅能评估整个人生，当站在天堂门口回首人生时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And it is not for me to set myself up as the one person able to answer it.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Here, as elsewhere in Yeats' poetry, it's not essential for you to be able to pursue his occult learning and decode his symbols in order to read his poetry.

这首诗还有他的其他诗里，研究他的神秘主义学习,和解释这些象征对读他的诗,来说不是很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

IDE executive director Zenia Tata says some who were able to buy diesel pumps now do not enough money to buy fuel.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Now you might be able to resist them and not eat them in abundance but they're still there and the brain likes those sorts of things.

现在,你可能会抵制这类食物,不会吃太多,但是依然会吃,而且大脑喜欢这类食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Then he said if the Princess wore black glasses she would not be able to see anything.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Will you be able to do a lot of good in a for-profit organization,not for profit organization, on the board of your previous school, with your money,with your time?

你们能够做善事吗,在一个非营利机构里行善，在你母校的董事会，贡献金钱和时间？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Presumably, these are activities that are all engaged in risk taking behavior of one kind or another that seem not to be able to be explained by Hobbes' law of nature alone.

大体来说，这些活动都,与冒险的行为有关,而这些行为并不能仅仅为,霍布斯的自然法所解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he says any new product will have to be different enough that people will not be able to find it anywhere else.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Needless to say, the satisfaction of John Milton, Sr. will have to be postponed to the great hereafter. He will not be able to reap the profit of his investment in his son's study until not only after his own death, but of course after his son's death as well. That's Milton's logic here.

这个名字已经历经了好几个世纪，不用怀疑,弥尔顿父亲的赔偿会继续延续下去,但他却不能在有生之年享受到他对儿子支持的回报，在弥尔顿死后也一样享受不到，这就是弥尔顿的逻辑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mister Hawass says that scientists have not yet been able to tell what caused the brown spots.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They are not able to find the temporary, part-time jobs they would normally take," she says.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

and it's something that is part of who you are that you will not be able to give up.

这是你的一部分，你不能放弃。

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