"Obviously there are a lot of people that are unhappy about the potential of altering the future of space flight."

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The flow of information is really a flow of electrical potential and it goes in one direction only.

信息流实际上就是电势差的流动,并且流动是单向性的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

and I think it's a very, it's a very large potential... new industry,

我觉得这，它是非常有潜力的……新产业，

对全球变暖的政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

VOA: special.2010.10.19

That results in a dramatic change in the membrane voltage; the potential across the membrane and that's shown here by this rapid rise in membrane potential.

变化导致了膜电压的剧烈变化,膜电压就是跨膜的电势差,表现为膜电位的迅速上升

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"What the youth of America and their observing elders saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

She's making a strong a claim as is possible to make for her potential for rhetorical power.

她提出一个强有力的要求,因为这可能有助于她掌握话语权的潜力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The International Energy Agency has predicted a potential seven million barrel per day gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

What else is Yale, but an elite institution intended to educate, morally and intellectually, ? potential members of a leadership class?

耶鲁除了是精英学院,在道德与智能上用以教育，潜在的领袖阶级成员之外，它还有什么职能？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"The number one area we need to focus on, the biggest potential vulnerability, is a bomb on the body,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That is the change that can unlock Africa's potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

The operating system still finds it but this process of getting some of your files bits from here, some from here, some from here, induces a potential slow down.

操作系统根据文件块的地址,仍旧能够找到这一整个文件，这也导致了潜在速度变慢。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It was a few months before East Timor's referendum for independence, and Indonesian forces were intent on intimidating potential pro-independence voters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

What people did is they said let's define a unit of energy that represents a unit charge accelerated across a unit potential difference, and let's call that the electron volt.

前人们所做的就是他们说让我们确定,一个能量单位用来代表一单位电荷,加速穿过形成的一单位电势差，我们叫它电子伏特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Flavor aside, scientists have recognized it as a complex blend of chemical compounds with potential health effects, both good and bad.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

What must this experiment have the potential to do, to be a valid scientific experiment?

实验必须有做什么的能力,才能被称为一个有效的科学实验呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's also seen as a potential game changer for the struggling newspaper and magazine publishing industry, because of its built-in electronic reader.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Rather, it's a potential fire that flashes up momentarily within us.

相反，它是股潜在之火,可以很快燃烧起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Any substantial eruption of a volcano has a potential to do that over a short period of time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

You could not sell a security without giving a prospectus to the potential buyers and the prospectus would be something approved by the SEC.

没有招股说明书就不可以,出售证券给潜在买家,而且招股书需要通过证交会审核

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In recent years Britain has turned up the rhetoric, putting Iran alongside the likes of North Korea as a potential nuclear enemy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Boeing's rival Airbus put on a show of its own, with its A380 double-decker soaring above potential buyers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

I feel that I've fallen short of my potential " to really make a difference."

我觉得我能改变世界的能力,越来越弱了“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But the ACLU's statement, like the congressional vote, occurred before last week's potential catastrophe on a U.S.-bound jet.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

So the idea of the model is each voter is a potential candidate.

这个模型中每个选民是一个潜在候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

President Obama said the U.S.government must be able to act decisively when information surfaces about a potential threat.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

And each time one of these errors occurs, or you get multiple errors that compound each other, then you've got a lot of potential error introduced in these messages.

每当有误差发生,或多重误差复合叠加,然后你所得到的信息,就会包含很多潜在的误差

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Any potential UROPs out there -- anyone planning to do a research at some point?

有没有人想参加UROP？,好样的？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选