The Census Bureau says the ten-question form this year is one of the shortest ever and should take no more than ten minutes.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

And he has a theory about early life and perfectly appropriate as far as one can tell of what pre-human form he studied.

他有一个有关早期生命的理论,一般人都会觉得很正常,他研究人类之前的生命形式没有什么不合适。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a supposition that whatever the object of theory might be, - theory itself must-- owing to whatever intellectual constraints one can imagine-- be of such and such a form.

不管理论是关于什么事物的，它自己都只能-,由于人们思想的局限性-,以猜想的形式存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Snowflakes come in different sizes. As many as one hundred crystals may join together to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The world is constantly rolling-- this is a Platonic expression-- rolling between one form and the other.

这个世界就这样不断的左右摇摆,这是种柏拉图式的表达,型相间的来回摇摆

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Lives improved. Within those first one-hundred years, transportation links had helped form a new national economy.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

I think the genius of this parable hinges on the fact that the servant who was only given one talent seems to be acting so perfectly reasonably - with a laudable form of caution and hesitation, you could actually say.

我认为这则寓言的特别之处在于,那个只拿到一个金币的仆人,的行为是很合理的,-可以说是令人称赞的小心和犹豫。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And finally, in seventeen eighty-seven, one of the declared reasons for establishing the Constitution of the United States was to form 'a more perfect Union'.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

When I was a boy there was one form and one form only and it was cartoon-- it was on Saturday morning cartoons and there was advertisements for foods on that and it was mainly for sugared cereals.

在我小时候有且只有一种形式,那就是动画,在周六早上的动画中,有关于食品的广告,主要是加糖麦片的广告

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"There would be an eight-page form, and really other sites have successfully managed to make this work with one page, and that data quality is much better in one page, because it's easier to do.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

In all of these cases, you're tempted to say, "Well, gee. One of those must be form and the other must be content -in particular, obviously "plot" and "story" where "plot" is the constructedness of the text and the "story" is what the text is about.

在所有这些情况中，他们都企图解释，这些一个是形式,一个是内容,具体来说，很明显在情节和故事的关系上“,情节是构建方式,而故事是内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选