Marilyn may have worked more to improve her appearance than to improve her performance in acting classes.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

We are going to be in a conference room not far from here, and we are going to be reviewing every person's performance in this class.

我们将会在一间会议室里,离这不远，我们会开始,回顾每一位同学课堂上的表现。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So you will have the right taste, you have the right performance in the food quality.

你将尝到纯正品质的美味。

问上门厨师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Todd Duncan began a major change in classical musical performance in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

that the actor playing Comus in this first and only performance in the seventeenth century was none other than our John Milton himself.

在17世纪,演员第一次也是唯一一次扮演Comus的,不是别人正是我们的弥尔顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That would be the worst performance in more than sixty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The finding is that if your race or your group has a negative stereotype associated with it in any particular domain, being reminded of it serves as a stereotype threat and hence damages your performance in all sorts of domains.

他们发现如果你的种族或群体,跟一个消极的刻板印象有关,随便在什么领域上，如果别人在你面前提前，就足以构成刻板印象威胁,从而影响你在这个领域上的表现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Many Gulf residents have criticized the president's performance in the crisis.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

It's measured by subsequent performance in the amount by which the winner wins equals the amount by which the loser loses, but it costs a lot to play the game.

之后的业绩表现可判输赢,而且赢方赚的钱,就等于输方赔的钱,但是交易本身会产生巨大的成本

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He gave his last performance in August nineteen ninety at Tanglewood.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

I noticed that several of you were smiling, in a way, as I read, that suggested you were embarrassed by the performance. Right?

我注意到在我读的时候你们中有人笑了，那表示你们对我的表演感到难堪，对吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Asian Development Bank economist Zhuang Jian says strong performance in the last two months of 2009 helped China's export surge.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

I want you to recognize classes of algorithms and match what you see in the performance of the algorithm to the complexity of that algorithm. All right?

让我再试一次这么说,我期望大家能通过,算法的复杂度,来看到算法的性能？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A former child star whose acting career was rejuvenated by an Oscar-nominated performance in the 2006 drama "Little Children."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Retention went up for them; performance went up; they were more likely to advance in their organization and stay in their organization.

他们的保持力增加，工作表现出色;,在公司更有可能被升职,并留在公司里。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It seems that when the Fed is responsible for monetary policy and bank supervision, its performance in both suffers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.

这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Irish actress,now 16 years old, first gained international acclaim for her performance in the 2007 drama Atonement.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Can you recommend us a good performance or event held in Venice Beach?

你能给我们推荐一个威尼斯海滩好的演出或者活动吗？

请记住我 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Coach Sellas Tetteh was pleased with his squad's performance in the 3-2 victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"We want middle school kids to increase their level of achievement in science and math and for their teachers to increase their level of performance in teaching those subjects."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

What kind of performance can we see at the theater in Harlem?

在哈莱姆的剧院里，我们能看到什么类型的表演呢？

关于黑人文化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But many voters continue to question Palin's intelligence and her grasp of issues concerns that first arose during her sometimes faltering performance in television interviews during the 2008 campaign.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Whatever awkwardness of casting we have in this original performance we'll cast that aside.

无论原版中的角色表演有多笨拙,我们只能表演那样的旁白。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Educators say the goal will be to improve student academic performance in math, science and technology courses, while giving them the tools they need to build lasting professional careers in a 21st-century, knowledge-based economy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

You see, rejecting our nature leads to suboptimal performance emotionally as well as in terms of external performance.

拒绝本性导致次优表现,不论在情绪上还是外在表现。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Audience members in Thursday's will get a chance to question Misters Brown, Cameron and Clegg, whose winning performance in Britain's first U.S.-styled televised debate last week gave his party an unprecedented boost in polls.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Does it give you the answer that you expected it to give? Often, in practical problems, you'll spend just as much time doing performance debugging. Why is it slow?

它返回了期待中的结果了么？通常,在实际的问题中你会花，同样多的时间在性能调试上,它为什么运行这么慢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

As excited -- as aroused -- as we might find ourselves by this imagining of Milton actually playing Comus, of course his performance in that role can't be asserted in any way definitively.

我们会发现自己很兴奋,当在我们想象弥尔顿真的在饰演Comus的时候，当然他演那个角色的表现,我们不能以任何方式来判断。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选