I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

What's happening there? Well, the selection of reactants has been done judiciously to provide either heat or to provide something that's cool.

就会感到这东西，比如说变冷了，对吧？,这里发生了什么？这些反应物都是,被仔细的选出来的，能够提供热量或制冷。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In Golden Gate Park, I'll cross it to either go home or to the other side of the city.

在金门公园里，我会骑车穿过它，要么回家，要么去城市的另一端。

是市民的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then he would announce that he was going away to Europe or to California, or to Egypt for a while.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Now Milton may not be able to forget Homer, but he is able to correct Homer or to preempt Homer.

弥尔顿不能忘记荷马，但他可以改正荷马或者取代荷马。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The aim is to protect American military technology or technology with possible military uses to other countries or to terrorists.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In fact, a rough grasp on traditional English meter to Stevens, say, or to Crane, or to Auden or Bishop.

事实上，粗略的了解英国节律,比如史蒂文斯，克瑞恩，奥登和主教。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She said: "My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

I think it's really, really important to write it out or to draw it out or to code it.

我觉得将点子写出来，画出来，编制出来,真的很重要。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

We are not sure if Muhammad means the favorite sport to watch or to play so we will include both.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

So would you expect, therefore, as we go across a row for the atomic radius, to increase or to decrease? Good. OK, yes.

那么大家觉得，原子半径沿着某一行向右走，是会增大还是会减小呢？很好，不错，是的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some students come to study business or liberal arts or to attend the university's highly rated engineering school.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Netflix members do not have to go to the video store to get movies or to return them.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The problem is as simple as the fact that millions of people who are unable to move or to communicate.

问题很简单,数以百万的人们无法行动，或者与人交流。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

This was no Saint Francis with enough time to knock out a few canticles or to preach to the birds or do any of the other endearing things so close to Franny Glass's heart.

圣人弗朗西斯没有足够的时间去,来唱颂歌或者向鸟儿告解或者做任何,其他讨喜的事情，正合弗兰尼的心意。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Farmers often use their extra earnings to buy books for their children or to pay for schooling.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But twitterers also use the service to get quick answers to questions or to get breaking news.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

So again, part of the point here is that things grow-- or to rephrase it, interesting things grow at an incredible rate.

好，这儿我要说的就是,事情的规模发展到，或者用另外的话说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They were willing to risk their lives to enforce the law or to commit a crime.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

It's one thing to know your place in the universe, or to know the fundamental laws of physics.

知道自己在宇宙中的位置，或知道物理的基本定律是一回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The study found that many schools are not doing enough to get students interested in bioscience or to prepare them to study it in college.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's what we'd use to go to, eventually,to Mars or to the moons of Mars."

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Maybe you're not looking at a reaction, but you've got some new compound, and you're looking at it go from liquid to solid or to gas.

也许你研究的不是一个反应,但你得到了一种新的化合物,你看着它从液体变成了固体或气体。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She bent to touch the leaves of a plant or to smell a flower.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Is it all right to steal a loaf of bread to feed a starving family or to steal a drug that your child needs to survive?

为了养活快饿死的家人而偷块面包，可以吗,或是为了救你孩子的命而偷药呢，又怎样？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In fact, if the other person is working hard, or is cutting back on their carbon emissions, you have every bit more incentive to not work hard or to keep high carbon emissions yourself.

实际上,如果其他人正在努力工作,或者正在尽量减少碳排量,你总会有想偷懒的动机,或者总是继续大量排碳

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选