President Obama has restricted the conditions under which the United States would consider using nuclear weapons, but stipulated that the limitations do not apply to any potential confrontation with Iran or North Korea.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

In its oldest sense political science simply was a science of statecraft. It was addressed to statesman or potential statesmen charged with steering the ship of state.

政治科学简言之,即是权术科学，这是指政治家,或是掌握国家走向的,潜在政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, Hobbes clearly believes or thinks that this will be a useful book for a sovereign to read and hoping it will gain the ear of a sympathetic sovereign or potential sovereign.

很明显，霍布斯认为,这对君王将是本很有用的书,并真心希望它能得到一些富有同情心的君王,或是即将接任的君王的欣赏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"We're working very closely with Interpol," "They are in the process of establishing what is called the Dangerous and Disruptive Persons Database which will assist us in identifying people that may pose a potential danger to the tournament as far as organized fighting or hooliganism is concerned."

VOA: standard.2009.06.12

Whether you take the elevator to the top of the Hancock Tower or whether you walk up the stairs, the change in gravitational potential is identical.

不管你是乘电梯,去大厦的顶层,或者是步行，重力势能的变化是相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In fact, our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly depended on our state of mind, not on our status, or the states of our bank account.

事实上，我们的准备和体验幸福的可能性,主要由我们的心境决定，不是我们的地位或银行账户状况。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And each time one of these errors occurs, or you get multiple errors that compound each other, then you've got a lot of potential error introduced in these messages.

每当有误差发生,或多重误差复合叠加,然后你所得到的信息,就会包含很多潜在的误差

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, it makes a binary decision, either I create an action potential or I don't, but that decision could be based on many inputs, not just on input from one cell.

所以 这里产生一个二选一的决策,就是产生动作电位亦或不产生,不过这个决定可能是,根据很多输入信号做出的,而不是仅凭单个细胞所传来的信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So what is shown here is the potential solution to potentially read out neural signals dragged from the brain and use these signals after some interpretations or decrypting if you will to drive prosthetic arms or computer cursors on the screen.

大家现在看到的是一种可能的解决方案,有助于解读病人大脑发出的神经信号,同时在经过翻译或者解码之后,使用这些信号，驱动假臂,或者电脑屏上的光标。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

弥尔顿踩到了一条极其微妙的分界线上,这幅景象一方面极具美感，另一方面却可能是对上帝不恭甚至荒诞的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Very clear about who again the ideal statesman or reader potential statesman the reader of this book would be.

清楚地描绘出,理想的政治家或读者,本书潜在政治家读者的特质。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It turns out the electrical potential or electricity that you can measure on the surface of the body reflects things that are happening deeper inside like the beating of your heart.

人们已经证明在体表测量得到的电势能,或者电信号,能够表征,像心跳这样,身体较深处的变化

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Rather than by forming an image or a picture you put electrodes on the surface of the body and measure the electrical potential as a function of position on the body.

它并不对人进行直接的造影,而是将电极放到身体表面,通过测量该位置电势能,表征该部位的生理状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Because this post-synaptic neuron is going to be receiving different signals from different cells, it's decision about what to do next, and the what to do next is either create an actual potential or not create an action potential.

因此突触后神经元可以接收,来自不同细胞的不同信号,然后决定后续反应,后续反应包括产生动作电位,或者不产生动作电位

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It doesn't have every potential, it's a boy or a girl, it's not going to go back, but it has lots of potential in that eventually when it becomes an adult it could become a cellist, or a biologist, or an auto mechanic, or a biomedical engineer, all those potentials are still there.

但不是全部,比如性别已有定论,无法改变,但还是有很多潜能,当孩子长大,他可以成为大提琴家,生物学家,机械师或者生物医学工程师,他仍有所有的潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选