It's a temptation their curious minds can barely resist: "If we don't use human DNA now someone else will."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But you know, I understand it's a challenge when you're coming from a language that doesn't have any concept of an article.

但是，我能够理解当你的母语没有冠词的概念时，它将是一个挑战。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And,that it applies universally, it doesnt matter what ones faith is, it doesnt matter whether its a man or a woman.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Nobody knows, but there's a theory which won't answer your question but will put it into a broader context.

没有人知道答案,但有这么个理论,它无法回答你的问题,但却能让你从更宽广的视角来看这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It would either say something like -I'm not going to do the words that they would have come up with, but they would have said, yeah that's a good place to go or don't do that, that's a terrible mistake.

这答案不外乎两种,我不会说他们的那种语言,但是他们的意思大概是,那是个好去处,或者别做那事儿,那是个糟糕的错误

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"There's a lot of sketching that goes on,and a lot of times I don't know where things are going to fit in the texture.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

OK, so I don't have to, it's a great question, I don't have to create a second one for cmp.

但是参数的顺序是相反的，好，那么我就不必，这是个很不错的问题,我就不必再创建。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

People can't afford them. That's why we don't really have a malaria vaccine yet, because no one in rich countries really suffers from malaria.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

It's just not possible to solve some of these problems by hand and this isn't even a domain that's necessarily into the world of CS but speaks to you the applicability of it all.

手工处理这些问题似乎有些不大可能,但这还不是,计算机科学要解决的主要问题,我们的目的只是为了告诉你它的用途。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"There's a lot of hills and there's a lot of places where I can't go.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

She is in chains, and just because it's ornament just because it has the diminutive, doesn't mean that it's not a chain.

她被带上了“小“链子，它的“小“,或“装饰性“都不能改变它是一条锁链这个事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's a memory from childhood or it's eating something that you know you weren't supposed to, but you did it anyway and really enjoyed it.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

It was probably coined by this journalist named O'Sullivan, although now there's a new theory that it wasn't.

一般认为记者奥沙利文发明了这个词,尽管现在有新理论认为他们并没有联系

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"I don't think it's going to satisfy everybody. I think there are certainly a large number of Facebook users who have decided they really can't trust Facebook anymore."

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"How does he know what they want?" "Well he lives in the North Pole, I don't know if there's like a speaker or anything, for them to hear what children want."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It's simply a distinction that can't be maintained, which is why he calls it an "event."

这个差别不容忽视，这就是为什么德里达称语言为事件“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So she didn't have a girl's name picked out.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

But in fact, logically speaking at least, variability, although it's a requirement for unpredictability, doesn't guarantee unpredictability.

但实际上，至少在逻辑上讲，可变性虽然是不可预见性的必要条件，但是不可预见性却不是必然。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Sylvie knew it wasn't a friendly bird's whistle.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

That's why we can't have a continuum of energy, we actually have those quantized points.

这就是为什么，我们没有连续的能谱，而是，量子化的点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I know a lot of schools have their own newspaper or newsletter, but don't know of many who have a newspaper for the school that's part of a reservation-wide or huge area-wide publications."

VOA: special.2011.04.07

I'm going to look desperately at my T.A.'s to make sure I didn't screw that up.

我得问问助教们,检查一下我是否算错了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's like Santa Claus was sitting behind that counter. They just -- I don't care if it's a ninety year old man or a two year old child or a thirty year old, you know,woman or man.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

If it's a bad argument, then Locke's given us a mere rationalization that isn't morally defensible.

如果他的观点是错的，那么洛克的辩护,只是看似合理，但在道义上站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The statement doesn't say what McDonald's plans to do about CSPI's threatened lawsuit, and a spokeswoman wouldn't elaborate in emails.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

It's going to take place in there. It's going to be a constant pressure, it might be open to the air, or even if it isn't, there might be plenty of room, and it's a liquid anyway, so the pressure isn't going to change significantly.

也许它是液体，它在这个位置,这是恒压的，它也许是连通大气的，就算不是，它也有，足够的空间，而它是液体,压强不会显著地改变。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Lot's of investors won't buy a municipal bond unless it's insured.

如果市政债券没有投保,很多投资者是不会去购买的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选