The new report says widespread obesity is increasing the rates of chronic, or long-lasting,disease.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The topic for this week is cell communication: how mechanisms that cells within a complex organism use to communicate with each other at short distances or long distances.

本周的主题是细胞通讯,即在一个复杂机体中的细胞,采用何种交流机制,在或长或短的距离中相互联系

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

unless it has really good quality or I think it's going to last me for a really long time.

除非它真的质量很好，或者我认为我真的会用很久。

SOHO的画廊 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

No one knew if they could get the spacecraft back to Earth, or if they could survive long enough to return.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or visitors can drive a twenty-nine kilometer long road, stopping off at different points to enjoy the colorful formations.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

If we have a high frequency, what about the wavelength, long or short? All right. Good. So we should always be able to keep these relationships in mind.

如果频率高，那波长是长还是短？,好，不错，我们要记住这些关系,类似的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But the study says it can be more economical in the long term than using fuels like gasoline, diesel or kerosene.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.

如果某一个和弦持续的时间是其他和弦的两倍或者只有一半，这就是不规则的和声改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

When the top of the main shoot is removed by pruning or breakage the auxin is no long produced.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Not the soul can't be destroyed or if it can be destroyed, it is very very hard and takes very very long time.

而不是灵魂不会毁灭，或者,如果可以毁灭，毁灭会很难,需要很长时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But no one has the answer to how much market share Bing will claim from Yahoo or Google in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Well, you'll know when it crashes, that doesn't help you very much, but you can't always tell whether something's stuck in an infinite loop or whether it's simply taking a long time to compute.

好，你将学到它在什么时候会崩溃，这对你帮助并不大，但是你不能辨别出到底是在一个循环中,有什么东西卡住了呢,还是程序需要很长的时间来计算一个结果呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

And I sent an email to Professor Katz, that was three or four pages long, somewhat incoherent I believe.

然后我给Katz教授发了一封邮件，大概有三四页长，写得有些潦草。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

So far Plato believes, is a passionate or spirited aspect of nature remains strong so long will be necessary to educate the warriors of society who defend it.

到目前为止,柏拉图相信，如果激情或意志层面的人性,维持强烈的话,就必需,教育保卫社会的战士。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Or,they place long thin rolls of clay on top of each other and then make them smooth.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Because as you'll soon find, when you're writing programs 0 that aren't just four lines long but are 40 or 400 which very quickly becomes easy, you'll find that even you the next morning have no idea what this code does for whatever reason, and just having some English comments is a huge boon to comprehension for yourself and others.

你们自己写程序时就会发现,用40行甚至400行代码来代替繁杂拥挤的4行代码0,将会让事情简化许多，你会发现，即使由于某些原因,你不知道如何写代码，先写些注释，于人于己，都是好事,易于理解嘛。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

.. In 1799, it would cost so much to mail a letter-- I don't know exactly, something like $10 or $20 to mail a letter at today's rate-- and it would take a long time get there.

在1799年，寄封信需要花费-,我也不清楚具体的数字,大概相当于现在的10到20块钱-,而且还要花很久才能送达。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long range exploration of space.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Hundreds or thousands of men were put in long lines across the front of the enemy position.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

By the way, after class, I'm more than happy to stay as long as needed to answer any questions you guys have or to talk about whatever issues you'd like to bring up, but probably what makes sense is for me to power down the computer and pack up and then we can stand out in the hallway and I can answer questions out there, that way the next class can get in and the instructor can work unimpeded.

顺便说一下,课后,我很乐意多待一会,来回答你们的问题,或者讨论一些你们提出的问题,但我最好是,把电脑关掉,收拾好东西,然后在走廊里来回答你们的问题,这样下节课才能照常进行,老师也能正常授课

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Doctors say anyone with pain, swelling or red skin on a leg during or after a long trip may have a blood clot.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

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。

I'm afraid of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Obviously, what predicts a long-term relationship are probably things less superficial than looks, or at least other things in addition to looks.

很显然，，能预测长期恋情的因素,可能没有长相因素那么肤浅，起码除了长相，还有其他因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选