A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

And if we do, in fact, hit it with light to get the electrons off, it will go back to the straight up in position, or if it gets knocked hard enough it does that, too.

而且如果我们这么做，事实上，用光轰击它以逐出电子，它就会在原位置沿直线返回，或者如果它被撞击的足够猛烈,也会出现上述现象。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

or if it's over a long period of time and it's an ongoing situation that you want to get rid of.

或者是一件持续了很久的事，你特别想摆脱它。

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I don't knowif Mama was right or if it... it'sLieutenant Dan.

VOA: standard.other

There's a kind of aspect of value for many of us where we feel that something's especially valuable if it won't endure, if it's fragile, or if it's rare.

对我们许多人来说，有一种价值的方面在于,如果某事物不是持续的，如果是易碎的,或者是稀有的，我们就觉得它特别有价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He often has a special plan or answer to a problem that he can use if he needs it.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

They will only put it out if it's a fire in the home of a subscriber or if it starts to spread and to threaten the home of a subscriber.

他们只扑灭发生在会员家里的火灾,或者是即将蔓延到他们会员家里的火灾。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And the other part about it is if feathers were twice as heavy, or half as strong, then birds couldn't fly."

VOA: special.2010.06.01

If it were all the things that it's not, or if it were identical to all the things that somehow or another it's not, then I would be in a very difficult situation because I wouldn't have any means of knowing it in particular.

如果一件事就是它自身的反面，或者和其他的事物没有区分之处,那么我们，就很难认识它,因为我们没有办法认识它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Former president Bill Clinton said it was as if somehow school boards "could legislate differences in algebra or math or reading."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

So there's a panic in the market for securitized mortgages - and the price is often very low or if it's they're very hard to market and hard to sell.

所以，在市场上,证券化按揭贷款引起了恐慌,并且价格通常很低或者说如果它,他们很那出售而且对市场不利。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If it is compromised, then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticides or fungal infections or bacteria or poor nutrition.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The Republic asks us, what would a city be like if it were ruled by Socrates or someone like him?

理想国》要我们考虑，城邦的面貌,如果它是由苏格拉底或像他的人所统治？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is also important to know what to do if the signs appear -- in yourself or in someone else.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

You can go ahead and use that equation, or you could figure it out every time, because if you know the total number of nodes, and you know the angular node number, then you know how many nodes you're going to have left.

你们可以直接用这个方程，或者每次都自己算出来，因为如果你们知道了总的节点数，又知道角向节点数，就知道剩下的节点数是多少。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Securities and Exchange Commission says a private company must report financial information if it has five hundred shareholders or more.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

We'll test our hypothesis, or at least examine it again see if it's, in some sense, repeatable.

我们要测试我们的假设或者至少再检查一下,让我们看看它的结果是不是可以接受的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At the beginning of the talks, the United States was not sure if it wanted all or only part of the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

If you're not updating some variable by incrementing it or decrementing it -- if you're not changing anything, presumably the conditions are never going to evaluate to false or the opposite, so you're just going to have an infinite loop, which might be your goal, but odds are it's not.

如果你不通过增加或减少它来改变一些变量,-如果你不改变什么，大概那个条件永远不会变成错误的,或相反的，所以你将得到一个无限循环，那可能是你的目标，但可能也不是。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The spokeswoman says if you get an e-mail you are not sure about, forward it or send a separate message to ContactETS@ets.org.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Maybe even lots of snow. If you do not have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

And I believe this game is covered in some detail in the Watson textbook, or something very close to it is, if you're having trouble.

我记得在沃森写的教材里介绍过,或者就是类似的内容,如果你没听懂可以回去看课本

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

See a doctor if a mole bleeds, is bigger than six millimeters or you feel like rubbing it.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

It's best if you don't know what that is or even if you do mistakenly attribute it, misattribute it, to physical attraction, romance, intimacy, passion and commitment, it's love.

最好是如果你不知道是什么,甚至如果你错误认定，以为是生理吸引力，浪漫，亲密，激情和承诺，那是爱情。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

You can tell if a pot comes from Athens or it comes from Pylos, or-- not Pylos it was probably out of business-- Thebes or someplace else because they have their local characteristics which are perfectly obvious.

你可以从一个罐子辨认出它是来自雅典,或者皮洛斯,或者--,不会是皮洛斯,它已经衰亡了--,底比斯或是一些其他的地方,因为它们都留有当地的风格,这些风格很明显地表现了出来

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She often said: "You must never so much as think if you like it or not, if it is bearable or not.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

This would be? Well let's think through this in one additional way and that is--notice that in duple meter we have a strong beat, right "Strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong weak" in that sense or if we have triple it would be "Strong, weak, weak, strong, weak, weak."

是什么呢,我们用另一种方式来想,这个,你们知道二拍子,有很强的鼓点,对吧,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,那在这种情况下如果我们拿一段三拍子,那就会是,强,弱,弱,强,弱,弱

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

and not worry about, you know, if your husband likes it, or if your mom likes it, or whatever.

而不去管你丈夫喜不喜欢，或者你妈妈喜不喜欢。

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