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

VOA: special.2009.09.13

an event or something more abstract like a thought.

对于一种活动，或者像想法一类更为抽象的东西，“is there”也可以胜任。

Is there 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's probably more oligarchic or aristocratic, but the point is this is something we haven't heard of ever before.

它很有可能更像寡头制或者贵族制,但是它的重要意义在于,它开创了历史的新纪元

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Or they have to spend or lay out more money than they want for something.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

That's just the simple sequential sense of "first," the first that comes before second, third and fourth; but there's something more radical here than the ordinal or sequential sense of "first."

这只是“先“表示顺序的简单含义,先于第二，第三，第四的那个“先“，但这里,“先“除了表示顺序的意思外还有更激进的含义“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"If you turn on the radio you can find something you like, whether you like things that are more contemporary Country, or you find more things that are traditional Country or more rock-influenced."

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Is that something that can go for a semester or in the best of words for at least a year or more.

这种活动可以持续一个学期,乐观地说，至少可以一年甚至更长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

You could absolutely implement something more interesting and something even more animated like we saw on Wednesday or even earlier today, but it takes a little more than just a format string.

你绝对可以实施一些更有用的,和一些更愉快的东西，像我们周三或今天早些时候,看到的，但它不只是,格式化字符串。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Here, this is a more modern example with a little hash cafe next to it or something.

看这个,这个例子就更现代一些了,旁边还有些小咖啡馆杂然而列

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

We see something that's more or less round, and it reminds us of perfect circularity.

我们看到较圆的东西,我们会想到正圆

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There is rationalization, which is that when you do something or think something bad you rationalize it and you give it a more socially acceptable explanation.

还有合理化，是指当你做坏事或有不良想法时,你会将行为合理化,为行为寻找一个更为社会接受的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Oddly, it's much more like going to a jazz concert where the audience is sitting maybe around tables or something like that and encouraging and interacting with the performers but again in those cultures no notation.

非常奇怪,这很像爵士音乐会的场面,观众们为鼓励演奏者而围坐在桌边,或围着别的什么的,并和演奏者积极互动,而这些文化中都没有记谱法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The answer is I can't. OK, in the simple case of integers I can, but in the case of something more complex like faces or fingerprints or passwords for that matter, it's hard to design a hash function that has completely even distribution, meaning that it takes any input into exactly one output spot.

答案是我不能，好吧,在简单的整数的例子中,我可以做到，但是在一些更复杂的场景中,比如面部，指纹，密码相关的问题中，很难设计一个哈希函数具备完全平均的分配,也就是说，做到对任一输入，可以准确地得到相应的唯一输出,因此在一个哈希问题中。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you talk about going in for surgery, t have the exact figure in front of me, but something like a fourth of the people in Canada wait six month or more for surgery.

谈到手术，呃，我这里没有确切数据，ehm，，I，don’,但大约,四分之一的加拿大人,要等六个多月之久,才能手术。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Or you could use the "is there" question to ask about the existence of something more abstract

另外，你也可以使用“Is there”问句来询问更为一些抽象的事情是否存在。

Is there 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Whereas please help or dinner or something like that might actually be more compelling to a human.

而善意的帮助或者订餐,或者类似的事情可能对人更有吸引力。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Rather, what happened is you heard English and--but the capacity grew in your head and something a lot more similar to the development of arms or legs or a visual system.

相反,你听到了英语,你脑中的英语能力得到增长,这个和手臂,下肢,或是视觉系统的发育很相似

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If it doesn't make sense, you'll-- If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point, if it's something that you do that's foolish or makes you look manipulative or cheap, you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.

如果你的行为不合理，你会…,如果你的行为不合理，或者更确切的地说，如果你的行为很愚蠢,或者让你显得很攻于心计，或很廉价，你就会捏造理由说服自己这是合理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选