I may come up with an idea and it may end up being something in the middle of the piece.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even those of you who've taken AP computer science or something similar perhaps recall that even just getting a piece of input from the user is ridiculously not obvious.

你们中上了AP计算机科学这门课,或者类似的课程的人可能还记得,即使只是从用户那里得到一个输入,也相当麻烦。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Piece of cake" is another expression that means something is extremely easy to do.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

What we're really doing, or I shouldn't say what we're really doing, a basic piece of what we're doing, when we talk about classes or objects, is we're doing something that Professor Guttag mentioned, we're defining an abstract data type.

或者我不应该，说我们真正要做的，当我谈到类或者对象的时候，我们在做的基本的东西，如Guttag教授提到的,就是定义一个抽象数据类型，那么这到底是什么意思呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So Jordan, playing the role of human is going to type or write something down on this piece of paper, GetInt hand it back to, get int.

所以Jordan，担任人类的角色，键入,或者在这张纸上写下点东西，把它传给。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选