He says that skyscrapers are clearly popular around the world because they provide a huge amount of shelter and use less land space.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

I mean, why can't the government just provide some type of a tax benefit

我的意思是说，为什么政府不能就提供某些税收优惠，

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What I want to do is to provide a state of the art introduction to the most important topic that there is: us.

我所要做的,就是向大家介绍在人文领域里,对最重要主题,也就是对我们人类的研究现状

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

States did require each town to provide a school for children, but teachers often were poorly prepared.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Day trading companies provide a desk and a computer system to an investor who wants to trade.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

We want to make sure that if the students would not to be given the time out to learn, we need to provide a vehicle or that they can take the advantage of learning in their world context to actually put the theory into practice.

为了确认学生是否会,腾出时间学习，我们需要提供一个工具,让他们在生活的情境中,利用学习,将理论用于实践。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In general,a complete diet should provide all the vitamins a body needs in their natural form.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

And if you are looking at a keyboard, we can predict in the real time very rapidly that beat your very single finger typing speed, exactly the letters you like to type and hit, therefore provide a communication mechanism that Christopher Reeve and those similar with him can benefit from.

如果你在看电脑键盘，你可以十分快速地,实时预知自己手指敲击键盘的速度，预知你想录入的字母，这样便为克里斯托弗·里夫,和其他你说熟悉的人提供了一种沟通机制，使他们从中受益。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Planting beans every two to four weeks until early August will provide a continuous harvest.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Also according to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children. And this is something that happens with three out of the four matriarchs, who are afflicted with infertility: Sarah, Rachel and Leah.

根据Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作为替代她就要让自己的女仆为自己的丈夫生养后代,女族长中四分之三都会出现这种情况,她们饱受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉结和利亚都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Yet animals like sheep or goats eat weeds, so they can provide a biological control.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

It's that I may satisfy some of those needs, but I also hope that I'll convince you that there's a different kind of needs that I can provide.

你的这些需求我能满足一些，我还希望你们了解,我还可以满足你们,另外的一种需求。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Planting them every two or three weeks would provide a continuous harvest into the fall.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A few American colleges provide a free education, including the military and Merchant Marine academies.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And if you want to run a furnace and provide energy that's an extremely important thing to be able to calculate.

如果你点燃壁炉，提供能量,计算这个量,是非常重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Planting them every two or three weeks will provide a continuous harvest into the fall.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

It's a problem set where we've worked pretty hard to write some problems that we think will provide you with a good learning experience.

我们为了写出这个问题集,让大家好好学习下课没少侠功夫,你们应该通过材料来学习学习它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Yet animals like sheep or goats can provide a biological control -- they eat weeds.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

When you've been typing in words to the keyboard like your name or any word that you're trying to provide to the user, a string really looks like this.

当你们通过键盘键入单词，比如你的名字,或者你想提供给用户的任何单词，一个字符串实际上看起来就是这样。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They also would provide a vehicle with four wheels in which astronauts could ride.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Your natural defenses that might provide some kind of a buffer between a commercial message and your behavior, you have a filter, a screen that helps you interpret these message.

人天生的防御心理能够,为商业信息和人类行为之间提供缓冲,电视屏幕像一个过滤器那样,隔离了人和商业信息

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Kelp forests provide a protected home and food for many kinds of sea life.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Engineers decided the rock would provide a good strong support for the proposed dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

And you'll have a chance either to just stare at me or anyone else, or think about what we've just discussed, or have a guiding question that I will provide you that you'll address during the class.

你们可以盯着我或者周围人发呆，或者思考一下之前讨论的内容，或者解答我提出的提示问题。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He says one way of doing so was to provide a fully-equipped telescope.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Well, I think that if the great majority of people try to derive maximum utility out of a service, like using cell phones and the convenience that cell phones provide, that sacrifice is necessary for satisfaction to occur.

我觉得如果绝大多数人想要,从某项服务中获得最大功利，比如使用手机，享受手机所带来的便利，那么为了满足需求，这种牺牲就是必要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选