Or a newspaper might report that "defense lawyers were 'battening down the hatches' for testimony by someone who observed the crime."

VOA: special.2009.05.24

It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.

这就是海岸平原，它提供了或说它本身就是,离开埃及或者下埃及的主要通道。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

it's like really, forest sit on that side, so it's really nice to sit down and read a book or something.

那一边简直就像是一片森林，在那里坐下来看看书或干点别的什么将会是件很美妙的事情。

我的爱好是读书 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained; Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground, And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.

惊恐中担心想象中的那些脸庞有了细纹;,前方的战场上没有血流成河，没有枪炮的轰鸣，或者向下指着的冒烟的枪口下的哀求。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Sometimes her pictures made you feel you were looking down from a great height, or up from far below.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And if you're our zero just continue standing there awkwardly, Alright. So with that said, we have a three-letter word so we'll have three rounds of hands going up or down.

如果你代表0，就站在那里别动，好，那么，我们有三个字母的单词,因此我们分三次分别表达这三个字母。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They drill down to the shale, then go sideways and inject high-pressure water, sand or other material into the rock.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

Today, it's priced given the best-known information and so tomorrow it's equally likely to go up or down.

由最广泛的信息所决定的,所以明天它涨价和降价的概率是相等的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They say expressing emotions to friends or family members or writing down your feelings can help reduce stress.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Very quickly. It's going like this and so on. It's also doing what? Going up or down?

非常快,就像这样,它还怎样行进的,上行还是下行

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Usually the bride's father or another relative walks her down the aisle and presents her to the groom.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Press your lips together with the corners straight or down.

把嘴唇并在一起，嘴角成一条直线，向下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

There are processes that go from my nervous system, from my brain and spinal cord out to the tips of my fingers that allow me to move muscles there, or down to your toes.

神经系统中的有些突起可以,从大脑和脊髓一直延伸到,手指指端,以使我这里的肌肉能够运动,神经甚至会一直延伸到你的脚趾

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

They would get married and move off to an apartment or someplace down the street, or to another city.

他们会结婚,他们会搬到附近住宅，或另一座城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A tailgate is the back end of a truck or other vehicle that opens down.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Usually, the picture is that they are coming from the north or the northeast and pressing down into it.

他们通常来自于北方,或者东北,使用武力手段进入了迈锡尼

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

More problems can develop if a person looks down his nose at someone or something.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And that the fact that it split into two was telling them that there must be some new property to the electron, and what we call that now is either being spin up or spin down.

它能一分为二的,事实告诉我们,电子一定有某种新的性质，我们叫它自旋向上或者自旋向下。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He fights against bad people or super villains with the help of other down-on-their-luck superheroes.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

I would put them in my room and hang them all over the walls and just look at them and wonder what was happening at this particular intersection or in this area or how to get down this road most efficiently.

我会把它们放在我房间里,挂满整个墙,只是看着它们，想,这个十字路口发生了什么事,或是这个地区,怎样最快走到这条路。

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 down to earth person is the opposite of someone who acts important or proud.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

But 00:55 you stop and we will have people collect them either down here or at the back.

但是在00：55你要停下来，我会找人收卷的,在这儿，或者在最后面。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

An athlete lies on top of it with his or her face down.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Or, if you move further down, you get into Savoie, which was Savoy, Hautes-Savoie, Savoie, which were next in they spoke an Italian language.

或者,你再南下,到了萨瓦,也叫萨弗衣,上萨瓦,萨瓦,这俩埃着,说一种意大利语

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Mist can take you on a boat ride up and down the river so you can see the animals as they come to drink or play in the water.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

By the way, all the names that I read and that are not on the power points, you don't need to remember or write down.

我所提到名字不会出现在幻灯片上，不必背诵或记录。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Whether they're more inefficient when things are going up or when things are going down.

是不是在事情进展顺利或受阻的时候,市场会更没有效率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选