"And so decisions that federal agencies are making will have an enormous impact in our ability to wisely adapt to climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

So, this is just one example of how these properties can already, even our understanding just talking about single atoms, can already make an impact in these biological systems.

这只是一个例子，通过它我们可以看到，尽管我们仅仅讲到了单个原子，但我们现在已经可以用它的性质来理解一些生物系统。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"What the federal government does, has a huge impact on where we build in coastal zones, how we farm, what our infrastructure looks like."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

At this point in our reading of Milton, I think these lines have an amazing impact.

读弥尔顿读到这里，这几句有很强的冲击力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"This is having an impact on their health. It is also reducing our ability to bring other kinds of assistance, such as vaccination campaigns against polio,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

In fact, I don't know if in the news the pioneer in this is a man named Judah Folkman, who is a surgeon who first speculated that this was important, and sadly he died on Monday, but had a dramatic impact on our understanding of how cancers develop in people and new approaches.

实际上,我不清楚这个新闻中提到的人,是不是犹太?福克曼,这个领域的先驱,他是个外科医生,最先提出了这个重要的理论,不过不幸的是他在本周一去世了,他让我们对癌症有了新认识,带给我们治疗癌症的新思路

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And again,it is two-fold: one is,we want to help our colleagues in Mexico, but it does have an impact on safety and security in the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"Its deficiencies,in fact, have had an adverse impact on our security."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The level of violence is up. I worry a great deal about the overarching impact of the global financial crisis on not just Afghanistan or Pakistan, but all of us in our ability to resource this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04