The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Or maybe you could be wanting to try some extreme sports like skydiving, jumping out of an airplane.

又或者你想尝试一些极限运动，比如跳伞，直接从飞机上跳下来。

Have you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

+4 Because this could be three plus four, 3 times five, or it could be three, plus four times five.

因为这可能是，然后乘以5，也可能是，加上4乘以5。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mister Gallant says the two top floors could be turned into rooms for workshops or studios or more performance space.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Anything where you're actually keeping track of something like a score that's having a variable that you increment -- plus, plus, or decrement, minus, minus, using the appropriate puzzle piece could certainly be compelling.

你需要保存像分数这样的事物时,你就需要一个变量,它可以自加，++，或者自减,要使用正确的拼图。

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 we're going to talk about thinking about the body as a system, as a system that can be understood the same way a motor could be understood or a computer that could be understood.

我们会讲到如何将身体看作系统进行研究,这个系统能够以研究,引擎或计算机的方法进行研究

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A dollar or two could be added to the price she usually paid for her daughter Janie's shoes.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

It's not a social role in the way that she could be granddaughterly or motherly on those other occasions.

这不是一个她可以像孙女,或者母亲一样的社会角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Companies also have to be careful or they could get into trouble with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

It could be information-oriented, it could be a dialogue, it could be some kind of tools, a request function or dictionary or computing request.

可以是信息导向的，也可以是对话，或者是一种工具，一种对功能的需求，比如对字典，计算的需求。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Rapping could be described as speaking or singing words at a fast speed over music with quick beats.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Or the insurance company could be a mutual insurance company, in which case the insurance company is owned by the insured.

保险公司也可以是互助保险公司,也就是保险公司的股东就是被保险人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it also has to be careful, or people could start to worry about an invasion of privacy.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

If there are three possibilities--dead, alive, or suspended-- to be dead, we could still say you've got to be broken, incapable of P-functioning.

如果有三种可能，生存，死亡或者假死-,要死亡的话，你必须是被破坏的状态，无法拥有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In schools, the punishment for cheating could be a failing grade on the paper or in the course.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

All things being equal, what sort of person if you could be sexually or romantically ? involved with any person, ? who would it be?

在条件一致的情况下，什么人,你会想和怎样的人,发生关系，会是什么人？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Astronomers could not tell exactly where the moon would be from one night or day to the next.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So you don't want to put in a negative energy, that's not going to help you out, you need to put in positive energy to get an electron out of the system. So that's why you'll find binding energies are always negative, and ionization energies are always going to be positive, or you could look at the equation and see it from there as well.

因为这对电离没有帮助,你需要一个正的能量,使得电子脱离这个系统,这就是为什么你会发现,结合能总是负的而电离能总是正的,或者你们看这个方程也可以发现这一点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If that is the case, it may be possible that the moon could hold enough water for future explorations or even colonies.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

For a lot of Protestants in the early seventeenth century, the word chastitycould also be used to refer to the state of what could be called married chastity: - married chastity was a type of bodily purity that could be extended -- -- or a spiritual purity as well -- that could be extended even into marriage.

对早期17世纪的新教徒来说，贞节这个词也可以用来,表示婚姻贞节：,婚姻贞节是一种可以延伸的身体上的纯洁-,同样也是一种精神的纯洁-,那种纯洁甚至可以延伸至结婚以后。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The bigger reserves could be in the form of cash or common stock, also known as common equity.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Gram for gram it provides a lot more punch in terms of calories than protein or carbohydrate, and that could be why fat has such an appeal to human physiology and why people like high fat foods.

每克脂肪比蛋白质或碳水化合物,提供更多卡路里的热量,这是人类身体对脂肪如此渴求的原因,人们为什么如此喜欢高脂食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Or perhaps, you could be trying to explain that you don't know whether you can do something or not by a certain date.

又或者，你正在试图解释你没法确定你是否能在一个指定日期前做完某件事。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The government would pay for the silver with paper money -- treasury notes -- which could be exchanged for gold or silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Or maybe, you could be talking with your friend about a shirt of his that you borrowed.

又或者你跟朋友在讨论一件你向他借的衬衫。

I've already 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's ridiculous to think that literature could be defined in any one of those ways or even in a combination of all of them.

文学根本不,可能被其中一个,或全部的定义所概括。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选