Snow crystals grow in one of two designs - plate-like and columnar.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

We have a zinc plate up here, and we're going to -- in a minute I'll describe how we can probe if electrons are coming off of it.

我们有一块向上的锌板，我们将在一分钟内描述,我们是怎样探测出,是否有电子从上面射出的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On--this week because the first concept sheet is different than the rest -you were using the Daily Plate Dietary Assessment -we'll send out this week a sample concept sheet.

这周,因为第一周的观点报告,与众不同,你们用了日常饮食评估表,我们这周会下发一个观点报告范例

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Sometimes,one plate subducts -- or slides under -- another plate.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

And, I mean, for example in France-- and if this ever disappears I'm going to be one unhappy guy--the license plates, the last numbers of the license plate tells you where people are from.

我的意思是,举例来说,在法国,如果这件事取消的话,我就会十分不高兴的,它就是汽车牌照,牌照上的最后几位数告诉你,这个人来自哪里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Last week,U.S.President Barack Obama said there was "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism", which was stopping some countries from stepping up to the plate.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

So we actually had the foods on a plate or in a bowl, or in a glass, and we had--we asked them to estimate how much of the food there was, how many ounces they were seeing, and then how many calories there were.

食物被摆在盘子,碗,玻璃杯中,然后让他们估计食物总量,有多少盎司,多少卡路里

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选