One spring night, the couple was asleep when a broad ribbon of white light slid across the old woman's pillow.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

So, we devoted a lecture early on--of a couple of weeks ago, to individual differences across people in intelligence and personality.

几周之前我们用了一整节课，来讲人与人之间的智力与个性差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

and she's now playing some pretty fairly difficult things considering that she has only taken for a couple of years. So,

尽管她才学了几年，她现在已经可以弹奏比较难的曲目了。所以，

和钢琴老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"So I believe I'd better give a hot Brazilian kiss. It would be better on the Day of the Couple."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I'm thinking of a couple of people in particular, I won't mention any names in the public sphere.

我心中有几个特定的人选，但我不会在公开任何姓名,不会在这公开的场合。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The couple never legally divorced because of their Catholic faith, but they did sign a separation agreement.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

All right, a couple of closing points before we leave this, things I would like you to remember.

好了，我们讲完之前再总结一下，我希望你们能记住的要点。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So he grabbed his thermometer, and went and made a couple of measurements and discovered the first law of thermodynamics.

所以他拿来了温度计，进行测量,后来就发现了热力学第一定律。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Michael made a couple of dunks. But hey,Manute stood his ground."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

We've looked at Milton's earliest poem, or what Milton wants us to think of as his earliest poem, from a couple of different perspectives.

我们已经看了弥尔顿最早期的诗歌，或者说弥尔顿希望我们认为是他最早的诗，从一些不同的角度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I brought a couple of songs to my old buddy Charles Arthur in Virginia, and we did a few there.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

Before we leave this story and move onto Cain and Abel I just want to make a couple of quick observations.

在我们开始该隐和亚伯之前,我想做个简短的评论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Members of a local conservation group, Watamu Turtle Watch, have been observing the nest for a couple of days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

It is a glass tube. He wants to narrow the light so he puts a couple of slits here.

这是根玻璃管子，他想要减少光的发散,所以在这里开了几个口子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

A single light bulb hangs above the table. There are a couple of pieces of furniture,small sofas without cushions,and a small table.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And now, if I'm touching mouse pointer, we saw that Boolean expression before, play sound meow, wait a couple of seconds, and then just keep checking.

现在，如果我们碰下鼠标指针，起初我们看到一个布尔表达式，播放猫叫的声音，等几秒钟，然后如刚才那样做检测。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The land surface pokes just a couple of meters on average above sea level, making it the lowest-lying nation in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Well with that I'd like to tell you about a couple of the projects going on in my lab.

我想通过介绍几个,我的实验室里进行的项目来说明。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"So it could be a couple of years before we see the true impacts of the oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

A couple of other English political philosophers, Hobbs and Locke, applied a similar novelty and modernity to the sphere of politics.

其他的一些英国政治哲学家们,霍布斯和洛克,在政治领域,应用了相似的新理论

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We have a step-by-step procedure we follow." (VOICE) Gertie Walls started teaching Singapore Math to her students a couple of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

We can define it in a couple of different ways depending on whether we're talking about sample mean or population mean.

我们有几种不同的方式去定义这个概念,取决于我们指的是,样本均值还是总体均值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But I hadn't heard any of his songs in the past couple of years." In a nearby outdoor caf, in the scorching heat.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Now I had an interesting discussion in section this past week and a couple of really good questions were asked.

现在我要告诉你们刚刚这周所学章节内容的有趣讨论，有人提出几个好问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So,for a couple of years, I was very grateful to receive toys for my kids for Christmas,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

What psychologists don't really know is why the Lake Wobegon effect exists, and there are a couple of proposals.

但心理学家还不知道,为什么乌比冈效应会存在，目前有几个假设。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You regulate your breathing rate in order to accomplish that and we'll talk about this in a couple of weeks.

人们调节呼吸的频率来获得足量的氧气,我们过几周会讲到这方面内容

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选