"But what it is, is it's a matter of national morale, national psyche, and a statement about where each country is on the technological development side."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

We can have a civil science, because politics is a matter of human making, of human doing, of human goings on.

我们能够拥有民间科学，因为政治关系到人类的产生，人类的生存，人类的延续。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

My unwillingness to discuss them isn't a matter of my judgment that they're unimportant, just trying to keep at least roughly on track.

我不想讨论这些问题不是因为,我觉得它们不重要的，而是想尽量不要跑题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Nonetheless,it is a symbol of collective African frustration at what AU sees as the refusal of the international community to hear its views on a matter involving Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

So it's a science that's based on macroscopic properties of matter.

所以它是一门,基于物质宏观性质的科学。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The new commander of U.S.forces there General Stanley McChrystal is expected to deliver his first formal assessment to the White House in a matter of weeks a report which is likely to fuel further discussions on troop levels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

After that, we'll move on to matter as a wave, and then the Schrodinger equation, which is actually a wave equation that describes the behavior of particles by taking into account the fact that matter also has these wave-like properties.

之后，我们会转移到物质，是一种波的话题和薛定谔方程，薛定谔方程是描述粒子,在考虑物质的波动性质后,的行为的方程。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now, these--the nature of these responses, this preferring faces, this sort of mimicry, is a matter of debate, and there's a lot of research going on asking how smart are babies.

这些天生的反应,这些对面孔的偏好,这种模仿,如今仍存有争论,许多研究依然在探寻婴儿究竟有多么聪明

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The debt irrelevance theory says that it matters for the price of a share what a company issues-- how much debt it takes on-- but it doesn't matter for the value of the company.

负债不相关理论说明它和,公司发行股票的每股价格,和总负债有关,但和公司的价值无关

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, introduction, "in order to explain the results of experiments on scattering of alpha rays by matter, Professor Rutherford," and there is a footnote to the Rutherford model.

嗯，绪论，为了解释实验的结果,关于物质的alpha散射，卢瑟福说“,这儿有一个卢瑟福模型的脚注。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选