Tilling can remove weeds and the waste from last season's crops and help break down old plant material into fertilizer.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

You put a child on one side of the mountains and you ask him to draw it, and a four- or five-year-old can do it easily, but then you ask him to draw it as it would appear from the other side and children find this extraordinarily difficult.

你让孩子在模型的一边,要求他把自己看到的三山模型画出来,四五岁的儿童便能够轻易做到,但是,如果你要求儿童画出,从模型另一边看过去的样子,儿童就会觉得非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I think there's the old saying, "You can't run before you walk." and I think it's basically the same thing about writing.

有句俗话叫，“你不能未立先走。”我觉得写作跟这个是一个道理。

英语阅读：技巧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

You can look at old exams, you can look at your homework, that's the kind of questions you can expect.

你可以看看古老的考试，你看看你的作业，那就是你所期待的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

My answer is, you can't change one but you can create a new one that is almost like the old one but different in a little bit.

既然你不能改变元组,你可以新建一个跟原来的元组,大体上一致但有细微差别的元组。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Old TVs can contain over a kilogram of lead as well as cadmium -- both highly poisonous.

VOA: special.2010.11.01

You can read Jeremiah and Isaiah and some of the great Old Testament prophets in some ways as defenders of slavery.

你可以读一读耶利米书和以赛亚书,在《旧约》中,还有些在某些方面,作为奴隶制拥护者的的伟大先知们的著作

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A New York federal court judge has ruled that Mister Muse is at least eighteen years old and can be tried as an adult.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

At my old age, I can spend my time" "When I was a young man, that's all I did.

活到这把年纪，我可以把时间花在．．．,当我还是小伙子时，脑中总是性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Visitors can find everything from old passenger planes to new unmanned aircraft, like the Predator drone.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

So, you can imagine in certain circumstances there would be guys that old back there, but fundamentally it's between 20 and 45.

所以你能想象,在某些情况下,也会有老年人,但基本上是二十到四十五岁的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the dead lying all over the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.

哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The twenty-two year old performer says her album "The Fame" is about how anyone can feel famous and all people are invited to the party.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Then we have Beckett who can get up 96 just on a regular old day.

然后贝克特以前通常能做到,96公里每小时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You can hear Cuban music. You can hear music of the Caribbean islands, old calypso music from deep in the Caribbean and reggae from Jamaica.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

We can do that sort of: When you play tic-tac-toe with your seven-year old nephew or niece, you just look ahead and work backwards.

我们可能会这么做,当你和你七岁大的侄子或侄女,下三子棋的时候,你就会先预测,然后想

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

John Harrison's clocks can be seen today at the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich,England.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

There is no machine yet that can recognize faces or understand sentences at the level of a two-year-old human.

至今还没有任何机器,能够做到面孔识别,或是理解两岁儿童能够轻易理解的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"And have you heard the news from Maine, and what old Maine can do.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

And he was--but you can't put somebody 90-years-old in the slammaire.

然后他就,但是你不能,把一九十岁老头扔大牢里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Yet,some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

People can imagine they are in a town in the Old West.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The huge old trees can make you feel very, very small.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

..I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, So can't get saved as Saint Mark says they mustn't.

我还保存着一只坏了的高脚酒杯,埋在水边的一棵老树底下,像受了符咒的圣杯,使坏人找不到，如圣马可所说：他们因此不能得救。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So, you can either pick up an old issue or I put the link on the website, too. And that's not just about his research, it's also about some of his memories as a student and advice to all of you.

你们可以找到报纸或者,我把网站放上去，那不仅是,关于他的研究的，也是一些,他对学生时代的回忆和对你们的忠告。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选