It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

This is a pretty alarming number because the rates so high already, one can't imagine it going up by another third.

这个速率是如此之高,确实值得引起警惕,人们无法想象这个数字要增加1/3

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We have a pretty great orchestra here that you can take for credit, um, as like a class

我们学校的管弦乐团非常棒，加入其中还可以获得学分，就像上课一样，

积极参与俱乐部活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The common or purple foxglove produces pretty flowers along a tall leafy stem called a spike.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

This was a pretty unusual objective for a company with no capital and with no people and no anything.

通常一个公司不会定这样的目标,如果没钱，没人，一无所有。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

It's game seven so we figured it would be a pretty good game, pretty close.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

Suddenly, we have evidence, thirteen or fourteen hundred years earlier, that people were reading this stuff and, by and large, it's a pretty constant textual tradition.

因为突然间，我们有了证据，证明1200或1400年前就有人，读着这些经文而且总的来说，经文一直延续了其文本传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Mary Gray was a widow with a large family of strong sons and pretty daughters.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

I've gone over this argument at such length because, I hope it's clear, I think it's a pretty interesting argument.

我用这么长时间研究这个论证,我希望是清楚的，是因为这是个很有意思的论证。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's pretty good work,eh?" " I want a full, detailed report of your investigation."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So this one is not a spoof, it's actually a pretty cute video and it offers us the opportunity to just take a look at some of the kinds of ideas we'll be looking at in this course.

这个就不是开玩笑了，它其实是个比较有趣的视频,它让我们有机会了解,在我们课堂上会讲到的一些思想。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But other times,its job is just to make a mealtime plate look pretty.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Should be a pretty simple fix in fact we should be able to do it on the fly, here. What should I change?

这应该有一个很简单的补救措施,实际上我们匆匆忙忙的改好它,这儿，我该怎么改呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The salespersons were doing a good job. The lines were moving pretty fast."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

So, let's write this one electron orbital approximation for berylium, that sounds like a pretty complicated question, but hopefully we know that it's not at all, 1s22s2 it's just 1 s 2, and then 2 s 2.

所以让我们写出,铍的单电子轨道近似，那听起来像是一个更为复杂的问题，但是希望我们知道它一点都不是，它仅仅是。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We realized pretty early on that it wasn't going to just be a marketing function, that there also needed to be a legal function involved with it.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

This is in a pretty small it's bigger than Belgium, but this is a pretty small territory.

这是仍然是一个相当小的数字,只比比利时稍大一点,不过比利时的领土也是很小的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A plain Jane is a woman who is neither ugly nor pretty.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

So what to eat, what the optimal diet is has become a pretty controversial issue.

吃什么和如何确定最佳食谱,成为冲突的两个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

My whole room pretty much looked like a miniature zoo."

VOA: special.2010.12.28

By that time, I had Saved a pretty big amount of money for those days.

到那时为止,我已为下个时期积攒下了大笔的积蓄。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Instead of collecting data today to plan for a campaign next year, changing from that to collecting data today to plan for what we do tomorrow, that is a pretty radical change."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

But as a statement of strategy, it's a pretty good idea.

但从策略上讲,这是个不错的想法

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It's a pretty scary way to cross that river.

过河是相当的惊险。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"It was pretty much of a shock when I got here. I mean,if you're going to talk to some of your friends about some of the stuff you saw -- and you can't describe the smells, the feeling of the heat on your body and the sweat running down your back.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And I was pretty excited about a lot of, kind of engineering and entrepreneurial programs

有这么多管理和创业项目，我真的很兴奋，

优秀的MBA人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

when in fact we have a pretty well-established historical record here that establishes what Stalin did as a leader,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

They saw certain patterns or certain ways of elaborating patterns that the teachers were talking about and, lo and behold, the fifty minutes was over and everybody had had a pretty good time.

他们听着老师以某一种,特别的方式进行讲解，瞧，短短的五十分钟很快就过去了！,而且每个人都听得很开心。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well,I think that's a pretty clear-eyed view,and a clear indictment, of what Kerouac is doing through the character of Sal.

这是看这本小说的一个很清晰的视角，对Kerouac为萨尔这个角色赋予的东西而申诉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选