The experts said you could get infected only if you sit within two rows of someone who is sick.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Is that something that is at work, or is it something that we could only be open to when it's ready?

它是一直存在，还是说,只有在特定时刻我们才能感知到他的力量？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In another example, you could explain what you're doing not only at a particular moment,

在下面一个例子中，你可以解释不仅仅在一个特定时间干的事情。

I'm ~ing 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Slidell returned to the United States,firm in the belief that only force could win the Mexican territories the United States wanted.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

I was only myself, Sal Paradise, sad, strolling in this violet dark, this unbearably sweet night wishing I could exchange worlds with the happy, true-hearted, ecstatic Negroes of America.

引-我只是我，萨尔·佩拉提斯，无精打采地徘徊在这个，温柔的难以忍受的夜晚，多希望自己能够变成,一个快乐，真诚，热情奔放的美国黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The older kind of submarine used in World War Two could stay under water for only about forty-eight hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But, of course, what you saw in recitation, and hopefully, what you can now think very quickly by looking at this, is that this is not the only configuration of pi bonds that we could have in benzene.

当然，你们在习题课看到过，你们通过看这个可以很快的想到，这不是苯环里,唯一的π键构型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Removal from office would have established the idea that the president could serve only with the approval of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

From that time until she was almost seven years old, Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I could have just done this, and the only reason I didn't here is just because now I look - at this, and now it's just getting confusing for me -- even for someone who's been programming for a while.

我本可以这样做，我之所以没有这样做是因为,现在我看着这个，它是我有点迷惑了-,甚至是对于某些已经写了一段时间程序的人来说。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It used to be that players in professional sports could change teams only if they were traded, sold or released.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

So that you could see that for the ideal gas, u would not be a function of volume, but only of temperature.

所以我们可以看到对理想气体，内能不依赖于体积，而仅仅是温度的函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Thirty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission found that Stanley Kaplan's program could raise SAT scoresbut only by about twenty-five points.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Now we began Lycidas with an image of a poet who could only write this poem -- this is what we were told -with forced fingers rude.

现在我们带着一个只能创作出这首诗的诗人的印象,来看这首诗,手指粗暴的用力攥着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Only by gaining political power could they punish the South and guarantee full political rights to former slaves.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

But he could only wave his hands as to how this physical thing in the world could connect to an immaterial mind.

但他只能用挥手这样的动作,来展示现实的生理客体,是如何与无形心理相联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They found that a city with only white rooftops could reduce the urban heat effect by thirty-three percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

If only you had seen the light and stuck to the soul theory of personal identity, all these problems could be avoided.

如果你们能够领悟真谛，接受灵魂理论，这些麻烦就自然消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It was the only part of the spacecraft that could survive the fiery return through the Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

In the case of the coin toss, there are only two, but I'm saying in general there could be an infinite number.

在抛硬币的例子里,只有两个取值,但是一般都会有无限个可能值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There was nothing I could do. When you have this kind of a problem, you can only take care of your body.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

If it could only ditch this electron, it could have the same electronic structure as neon.

如果它能失去这个电子，它就能和氖有一模一样的电子结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In those days, Europe seemed to be the only place where a black artist could gain recognition.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

That would be - you could have a cell that did that but that would be cell that could only send one signal.

那样就会,你的细胞可以发出信号,但这个细胞只能发出一次信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Most of these "Dust Bowl refugees" could only find seasonal farm work like gathering fruit from trees.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

And then, you start thinking, "Well, I could really start doing this if only X and if I had this person or if this technology existed or if this happened or this happened."

之后，你会开始思考，恩，只要某项条件成熟了，只要我认识这个人,或是如果这个技术存在,或是如果这个或那个发生了，我就能开始落实这个点子了“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Did she know the heart she felt or could she only feel it?

她懂得那颗心吗,她能感受到那颗心吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选