"If Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it could give a nuclear umbrella to terrorists, or worse it could actually give terrorists nuclear weapons, and that would put us all in grave peril."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

You should acquire overtime this instinctive aversion to just code or programs that just look ugly because things that look ugly generally are not easy to maintain.

对于代码和程序你会有一种本能的讨厌,这是因为这些代码和程序看起来很丑陋,并且不容易维护。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We'll talk about artificial organs and we'll talk about systems biology or thinking about how to acquire information for things like gene chips and use that information to understand what's happening in a complex organism like you.

我们会讨论到人造器官和系统生物学,并探讨如何从基因芯片中得到信息,并利用这些信息了解,人体作为一种复杂有机体的内在变化

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Because only by participating in political life do we achieve, can we acquire the excellences or the virtues, as he says, that make us what we are, that fulfill our telos or fulfill our perfection.

因为只有透过参与政治生活,我们才能成就自我，才能获得卓越或美德，如他所说，那造就了我们，实现了我们的，Telos，或说完善了我们。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If smallpox occurred in your community, about 30 percent of the people that acquire the disease would die from it; the other 70 percent could be disabled or permanently disfigured as a result of the disease.

如果你周围有人得了天花的话,那么百分之三十的天花病人,会因此死亡,剩下的百分之七十会成为残疾或永久毁容,这都是天花造成的

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