But to give a taste of what one might be like, we assembled a few students for a seminar-style discussion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well, one reason to do this is because on each post-synaptic neuron there might be many axons coming together at once, and each one might be generating a different kind of signal, through maybe even different neurotransmitters.

嗯 一个原因是在每个,突触后神经元上可能有,许多同时到达的轴突,每个都可能通过不同的神经递质,产生不同的信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Under one picture she wrote: "While machines are making great progress in automobile factories, the workers might be under-paid.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Another one might be "wait one second" which is another building block or puzzle piece and scratch.

另一条语句可能是“wait，one，second“,这条语句组成块或者片。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Weed thought General William Henry Harrison, one of the candidates in 1836, might be the man the Whigs needed.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

And this poem seemed like one you might find and be able to read yourself, without me there to explain it.

而这首诗似乎是一首,你们自己就可以读懂的，不用我多做解释的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

Now,looking at the situation from the outside, Shelly Kagan we might be unable to tell which one is really Shelly Kagan.

现在，从外部看一下这个情形，我们也许无法说出谁才是。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

During the second orbit, one of these signals warned that the heat shield might not be locked firmly to the bottom of the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One of those feelings might be the fun of a sleigh ride through the snow.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

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

They learned that the wild cats might be of two species instead of just one.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

OK, so what have I done? I just added a little bit more now. I'm now running through a pair of loops. Again notice the encapsulation, that nice abstraction going on, which is what I want. Once I get to this stage though by the way, there might be more than one solution.

我现在运行了一对循环,再一次注意这个封装,抽象得很好，这就是我想要的结果,我按这种方式走到这一步的时候,可能会有多组答案。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And be careful about stalagmites you might trip over one on the floor.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

I think that might be the reason- no one knows what all their reasons were.

我认为也许这就是原因-,没有人知道他们所有的原因是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What was best for one part might not be best for another.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

So, let's take a look at one of these rows in more detail to think about why this might be happening, and it turns out the reason that these glitches occur are because the sub shell structure predominates in certain instances, and that's where these glitches take place.

那么，让我们仔细地看一看其中一行,想一想为什么会这样，结果是这些小偏差的出现,是因为在一定情况下,亚壳层结构会产生重要影响，这正发生在小偏差出现的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Here is one example, "It Might as Well Be Spring."

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Somebody-- i got wind of the fact we might have a classical Indian musician in our class, somebody that had studied the sitar and might be able to come in and play one for us.

有个人,我确实听说过我们会有这机会,请来一位印度古典音乐家,这个人学过锡塔尔琴,而且可能会在课上,给我们弹一曲

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One reviewer gave the album high marks, writing "It might be 'Unforgiven' if you pass something up this well crafted and executed,"

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

One person might be a little low one day, another person might be high, a lot of people might-- you might happen to have captured them on an average day, but overall it averages out, so you get a representative sample.

一个人可能某一天少吃些,另一个人可能多吃些,很多人都会这样,你可能正好得出人们,平均每天的摄入量,但把它的整体平均一下,就得到有代表性的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I might be able to get a plate of food from one of them." Champs de Mars has undergone a transformation since the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Another way of saying that, stop me if this is wrong, but one way to say that is we've been assuming that politics is one dimensional, left/right and there might be other things involved: character or even among issues, even among political issues it could be more than one dimension.

换句话说就是,如果我说错了请纠正,换种说法就是,我们把政治假定为单一维度的,非左即右,然而它还涉及其他方面,比如性格问题,即使政治事务的处理也不是单一维度的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I always made things so I thought I might be able to make one.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The researchers suspect that the newborn c-section babies might be picking up their generic bacteria mix from the air - one way bacteria gets on our skin.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

And five weeks less one day later I decided you know what this might actually be for me and I switched from pass-fail to letter graded status at that point in time.

而第五周的最后一天,我从上及格-不及格制的课程转为上数字学分制的课程,你们可能知道这对我来说意味着什么。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It is--at least, it puts itself out there as a candidate to be an alternative term that one might use if one got tired of saying "irony" or "paradox."

如果“讽刺“，“悖论“一类的词,用的太多,可以用“朦胧“来替换“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选