A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

So, "It's like" is good in comparing an object, person, place or thing to something else.

所以，“It's like”句型在比较物体、人物、地点与事物的时候非常有用。

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Thermodynamics is asking you, what work does this thing do on the surroundings or the surroundings do on the system?

热力学在问你们，到底是系统对环境做功,还是环境对系统做功？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person,place or thing.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Is it just a representation of an imaginative and desireful economy, or is there some other thing being produced here?

是仅仅代表了虚构的渴望的经济，还是有些别的什么在这儿？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A nickname also can describe a person,place or thing.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If a drafted man could not do either thing, then he must join the army or be shot as a deserter.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

This thing better start turning negative soon or we are going to change the way the world works here.

它们很容易一开始就转化成负的,或者我们将取改变那儿工作方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Mister Bandelier saw the ruins of the ancient pueblo or village and said "This is the grandest thing I ever saw."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But counterfeit drugs may contain too much, too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Some people like to use shallow and deep, object and value, but they're talking about the same thing, which is it the same object or is it the same, in this case, set of values, depending on what you want to define as you use it.

有些人喜欢用对象相等值相等,但是它们是同一件东西，也就是是不是同一个对象，或者是不是同样的，在这个例子中，是同样的值集合，这取决于当你使用它的时候,想要怎么来定义它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

I mean the calorimeter is a big thing filled the little oil or whatever is inside it, right?

装满了油或别的什么东西,对吧？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I looked hard at him. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon, or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Second, is that people may not remember exactly how much they had or every little thing they had.

第二,人们也许会忘记,到底吃了多少或所吃的每一样东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So one thing that's missing, or wrong if you like, but the one thing is the voters are not evenly distributed in the real world.

被忽视的因素,或者说错误在于,在现实生活中,每个立场的选民数并非是均分的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

One useful thing about separating receptors into types or families is that we found that many different receptors work by the same basic underlying mechanism.

我们将受体进行分类的一个依据,就是我们发现,很多受体有相同的作用机制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The day will come when the politicians will do the right thing for our people out of political necessity and not out of charity or idealism."

VOA: special.2009.09.06

As I say, it's the sort of thing that somebody from the medical school or a biologist or a physiologist or something could describe for us.

就像我说的,这就是一些,医学院的人,生物学家或生理学家,向我们描述的死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They did the same thing to whites who tried to organize or help blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

To hear an oriole sing May be a common thing Or only a divine It is not the bird Who sings the same unheard, As unto crowd.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And then if you get a certain number, plus 60 or something, the neuron will fire and it fires along the axon, the thing to the right.

如果达到了一定的数量,比如超过60之类的,神经元便会产生神经冲动,神经冲动沿轴突传递,右边的是轴突

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Brian knows a thing or two about the power of the human spirit.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The simplest thing is something called a consol or perpetuity.

其中最简单的东西叫做公债或叫永续年金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A person, a place or a thing that's related to something that you're talking about in the present moment.

你可以谈论与当前的情景相关的人物、地点或者事物。

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