More than 1,400 foreign troops have died while thousands of Afghan civilians have been killed by insurgents or as a result of military operations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

He'd seen himself as a Jeremiah or as an Isaiah, and there were all those early gestures of prophecy.

他把自己看成是耶利米或是艾赛亚，诗里都是关于这种先知的示意。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That's a good question. As a parent or as a principal?

这个问题很好。从父母还是校长的角度来说呢？

驯服淘气的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So, I could write a policy as a senator or as a mayor and I could see the effect maybe in eight years.

我可以作为一个参议院或是市长拟定一个政策,我可能在8年后才会看到效果。

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

A "tornado outbreak" is often defined as six or more tornadoes produced by the same weather system within a day.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Very few of them would see themselves as a psychoanalytic practitioner or as a Freudian psychologist.

他们中很少有人会把自己,视为精神分析从业者,或是精神分析学派的心理学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Or as a function of volume.

或者作为体积的函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He or she says good morning or good afternoon or something like that and you all, as a class,you answer.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If a drafted man could not do either thing, then he must join the army or be shot as a deserter.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

I had not really had a conversation with a person who was out as lesbian or gay before I was in college.

在上大学以前,我从未真正地和一个,出柜的同性恋谈过话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yet insurance usually costs too much for a farmer with as little as a hectare or two of land.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The "Dixie difference," As a recent book title called it, or "Dixie rising" As another recent book title called it.

正如最近一本题为《不一样的南方》,或另一本题为《崛起的南方》的书所言

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Kinases can, in many cases, serve as a mechanism for switching a protein on or switching a protein off.

激酶能够,在很多情况下,能够激活一种蛋白或者关闭一种蛋白

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Heather Heiman is a lawyer there. "We try not to demonize or vilify the international marriage brokerage industry as a whole.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

And two, to give you a better sense of design especially as your programs get a little more involved and they play or they run for more than just a few seconds time.

另一方面，使你们对设计更有感觉,尤其是你的程序要适用于更多的应用环境或,要运行不止几秒钟时间的时候。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Same way that I have multiplication or division as a primitive, functions are going to give me, or somebody else who wrote them for me as part of a library, a new primitive that I'm going to be able to use.

我在用乘法或者除法当做原语,这些函数,或者别人写程序库中的函数,将会给我返回一个,我能使用的新原语。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Jurgen Rehm said having one or two drinks a day is not as harmful as having seven drinks at once.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Fat has twice the calories per unit weight that protein or carbohydrate sugar has, as a consequence, has the greatest survival value.

单位重量中脂肪的热量含量,是蛋白质和碳水化合物的两倍,因此,脂肪才是最能维持生存的物质

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As a result,there is a reduction in the number of nodes,or joints, that produce groups of flowers along stems.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

So we consider a text as a structured entity, or perhaps as an entity which is structured and yet at the same time that's the case with Roland Barthes.

所以，我们把原文视为一个结构上的实体，或者是作为一个,有结构上的实体同时,这就是罗兰，巴特的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

At many schools, RAs earn money as well as get their room and meals for free or at a reduced price.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So are Deuteronomy's legal traditions a direct response to or modification of the laws in Exodus and Numbers, or are they best understood as just different, independent formulations of a common legal tradition?

那么申命记中的律法是对出埃及和民数记中,律法的直接回应，或者它们最好被理解为,一种不同的，独立的对一般律法的,表现形式？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- or bought -- from somebody else.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

We should approach the book, in other words, not as we might a treatise, but as we might approach a work of literature or drama.

我们切入本书的角度，换句话来说，不应视其为论述，而是要将其视为,一部文学或戏剧作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

or as we might put it, a torsel transplant.

或者说是，躯体移植。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选