A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've always been told that any serious introduction to political philosophy has to start with a big piece of Plato.

我一向听说,任何严谨的政治哲学导论,都要从大量的引介柏拉图开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

But the things we were trying to stress were that it's an important design decision when you are coming up with a piece of code, as to what kind of efficiency your code has.

但是我们这里要强调的是,当你写代码的时候,决定你的代码的效率的很重要的事情，就是你的设计决定。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Remove dirt from the wound and press on it with a clean cloth or piece of clothing.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

If you have a piece of scrap paper with you, suppose that you've started your program as follows.

如果你有一张废弃的纸张，假如你已经开始了以下的问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The artist draws an image with oily ink onto a piece of stone or other flat surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

What could possibly drive somebody to jump out of an airplane with nothing but a little piece of cloth between them and death?

是什么可能驱使某人跳下飞机,而他们与死亡之间只有一片小小的布？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

And starting this morning i got from my wife a little piece of jade and I have been sort of in touch with my fun side.

于是今天早上我从妻子那里拿了一块玛瑙,到现在为止，我的心情都还挺不错的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

With silkscreen printing, a stencil is attached to a fine piece of stretched silk or nylon cloth.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

with a piece of popular music you get a single ethos, a single feeling,a single mood associated with the piece, and the piece will tend to be shorter.

在流行乐里，一首歌只表达一个中心思想，一种感觉，一种情绪，所以这首作品也就会短小一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This device is made with a stick and a piece of cloth or a belt.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

I released a piece of candy, threw it from my hand, and the initial conditions have to do with where did I release it and with what velocity.

我从我的手中抛出一颗糖,初始条件就是,我从什么位置抛出的,以多大速度抛出的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They lived on a small piece of land and a house with 4 rooms.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

With simple branching, how long is it going to take to run a piece of code?

但是在简单分支程序中，执行一个程序,要多长时间呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One piece of equipment on Apollo Fourteen was a light-weight vehicle with two wheels.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Right, and just to get a sense of this, let's look at a simple little example, so on your hand-out, you'll see I've got a little piece of code that says assuming I've got one of these points, I want to do things with it, for example I might want to add them together.

这些数组中的一个，你怎么能够知道，它是哪种类型的呢？,你怎么知道它是以笛卡尔坐标,表示的还是以极坐标,形式表示的呢？,你没有可以用来区分的东西，你没有说明这种信息,聚集实际上的意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

With this method,the printmaker cuts or etches an image onto a piece of metal.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Hopelessly out of touch with popular culture and nobody knows this better than I and to prove this I have chosen a piece because there's a little story with it.

貌似我和流行文化没有一丁点接轨的,这我比谁都清楚,可以为我证明这点,是一个小故事

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Brown would be on stage with an eighteen-piece band and a group of dancers.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

And having seized this opportunity," that language, seized the occasion, seized this opportunity, "he had emplaced one morning in the piazza in two pieces, with a piece of wood and a bloody knife beside him.

而抓住这个机会“,这样的文字，抓住这个机遇，抓住这个机会，“一个早晨在广场上,他将两样东西安放在官员的旁边，一块木头,和一把沾血的刀子。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now with LeRoi Moore gone, a piece of the puzzle is missing.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The presence of both Mars and Venus suggests you want to box everything into a neat, ordered, structured way but keeping a piece of jade or carnelian close will help you keep in touch with your fun side."

火星和金星的同时出现表明,你想把东西整洁有序地打包好,随身携带一块翡翠或玛瑙,会使你获得愉悦的心情“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The little city of Cape May lies at the end of a narrow piece of land with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Delaware Bay to the west.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The artists and craftspeople who made the medals say that the winners will take a special piece of Canada with them when the Games are over.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"This film is very much a thriller in a lot of ways with a surprise ending and with terrifying elements to it and very much a genre piece;

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

With the focus and patience of a surgeon, the bearded Egyptian artist delicately places a small piece of stained glass in the face of one of his portraits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30