He hated school. He didn't like living with his family on Cordelia Street in the industrial city of Pittsburgh.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Now, he hasn't yet settled on the topic of the Fall, the fall of Adam and Eve from their place of bliss in the Garden of Eden.

现在他还没有定下《降临》这首诗的主题，亚当和夏娃从伊甸园这个极乐的地方降临人间。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Oh, this professor is very bad at teaching, he doesn't even teach on the topic or

哦，这个教授教得很不好，他教的内容根本不在点上，或者

课程评价网站 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You came down in my dressing room and you said, 'Kid,this ain't your night.' We're going for the price on Wilson?'

VOA: special.2009.11.30

But the guy working, the one on the track off to the side, he didn't choose to sacrifice his life any more than the fat man did, did he?

但在侧轨上施工的那名工人，他并不比那个胖子，更愿意牺牲自我，不是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One of his promises was to fight a fare increase on what was known as the M.T.A.subway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

If unfamiliar, these are the mechanical computer devices that you have to use to buy a ticket on the T these days and there was one of these really awkward but touching situations where it was clear that this woman had no idea, you know, what to do, how to get from here to here, and I could see her just staring at the turnstiles that you're supposed to go through to get into the subway.

如果不熟悉，这是机械计算机设备,当今你必须使用它们来买地铁票,它们实在是难操作的,这个令人同情的情况是,明显这位老太太不知道怎样操作，怎样从这一步到那一步,我看见她只是凝视着,地铁的栅门口。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Champ can also be found helping the local economy by appearing on souvenirs like T-shirts and coffee cups.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Energy can flow across the glass but I put a lid on top, and so the water can't get out.

能量可以穿过杯壁流动,但是我在顶上加了盖子，所以水不能跑出来。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They wish he would spend more time on the economy. They don't like the health care bill."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Why is cancer one of the leading killers in the U. S. now but wasn't even on the charts in 1665?

为什么癌症现在是美国人的头号杀手,却甚至没有在一六六五年的名单中出现

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They think he is a strong leader. They say they don't necessarily agree with him on the issues they are most concerned about.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

During my life on the range I'd seen plenty of prairie whirlwinds but this thing didn't move;

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Jews didn't have to--they could observe the Sabbath, they didn't have to do things on the Sabbath that they didn't want to.

犹太人不必。。。可以过安息日，安息日那天他们不用做不想做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The woman went on speaking. "The house got sadder and sadder, but she didn't seem to mind.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

He's a man up in the air you know he's so detached he doesn't have his feet on the ground.

他是个生活在空中的人,十足超然,从不脚踏实地。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Paul couldn't sleep. He sat on the floor and stared into the darkness until morning came.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

If you're on a witness protection program or you're sort of fugitive you probably don't want to sit on the front roll.

如果你在证人保护计划之内,或者是个逃犯级人物,就尽量不要坐在前排了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"There's a lot of sketching that goes on,and a lot of times I don't know where things are going to fit in the texture.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The image we get there is that the Israelites are working their way through the marsh on foot, and the Egyptians' chariot wheels can't make it through the marsh.

我们所得到的印象是，犹太人徒步走过沼泽,而埃及人因为坐在马车上,所以无法穿过沼泽。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The most celebrated American circus in the 1800s was P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth."

VOA: special.2009.01.11

And if you're going from Boston to someplace else where New York just happens to be on the way, it doesn't have to recompute that part of it.

如果你是从波士顿到其他地方,而碰巧路过纽约你就不需要，重新计算从波士顿到纽约这段路了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For example, the small arms on T.Rex did not develop as the creature got bigger.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.

葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Well,I will not let you put yourself or this bar in danger.I won't." "True Blood" has completed its second season on the cable channel HBO.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

You got zero on the rest because you didn't write anything.

你在其它部分得到零分,因为你什么都没有写。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"I don't think President Obama and the Democrats were expecting to have to spend so much time on health care because it is dragging on.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

It doesn't rely on gravity. It doesn't rely on the planet.

这不需要依赖重力,不需要依赖地球

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And if the other countries aren't going to cut down on their fishing, then you want to catch the fish now, because there aren't going to be any there tomorrow.

如果其他国家不打算减少捕捞量,那么你现在就想先把鱼都捞起来,因为没准明天就会无鱼可捞了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选