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

Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

弥尔顿踩到了一条极其微妙的分界线上,这幅景象一方面极具美感，另一方面却可能是对上帝不恭甚至荒诞的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

The hearing was over legal procedures and was not a criminal proceeding, nor did it bear on Nkunda's potential extradition to Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Another concept that's important in thinking about stem cells is potential.

另一个需要重点考虑的概念,就是干细胞的潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Worries about the Greek economy's potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

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

"So it's very much an area where there is potential for this to be very helpful, but still there is still a lot of work to be done to figure how to best do that."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

We said, "Okay, what's the real potential of this business, and how are we going to draw that out?"

我们说，好，我们公司的,真正潜力是什么，我们又该如何充分发挥我们的潜力“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Karpinski says to do that, the League of Conservation Voters has mounted a nation-wide campaign to build support for new climate legislation among labor,industry and veterans groups, who have been suspicious of the measure's potential impact on the American business community.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

- But there's one potential gotcha here -- and this is where you have to be kind -- of piecing together the little clues along the way -- what have I done that's interesting here that had I not, I would have had a mathematical error?

但是这里有一个可能性-,这就是你需要把,一些线索拼凑在一起-,我这里所做的是很有趣的，如果我不这样做，我可能已经犯了个数学错误？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.10.19

Somebody? What's the key thing? It must have the potential to refute the hypothesis.

有人知道么？关键点在哪儿？,实验必须有反驳我们假设的可能。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"If we started seeing less fit employees or those with chronic illnesses or aging employees discriminated against in the workplace because they're not thought of as as vigorous, that's the potential danger I would say."

VOA: special.2011.02.28

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

U.S.officials say the system is needed to defend Europe and the United States against potential threats from countries such as Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

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

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

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

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

It's about fulfilling our potential, chipping away those limitations.

关于实现我们的潜能，凿掉那些束缚。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

But here, there's a potential source of conflict here.

但是这儿有个潜在的冲突

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

I think also what we're trying to build was not just this for America's sake, but I do think that we have the potential of offering an example, of how to do this well.

我还认为我们正在努力建造的,不只是为了美国，我真的认为我们有潜力,做好这件事，树立榜样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They farm tilapia - mostly in China. Sporns says the U.S.has an international certification process that is rigorous and will catch potential problems.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Because there are ions moving back and forth, there's a current that flows and there's a electrical potential that's generated.

由于离子的进进出出,就产生了电流流动,并且形成了电势差

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"That was reassuring, but it also meant that if you were unidentified you had potential friendly fire not too far away at a moment's notice."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

So that's 9 potential final projects that can live on in telephone form toward semester's end.

就电话这一主题我们就有9个,潜在的项目可以去做。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They still have broad potential and they're self-renewing and so there's much interest in those.

它们还有广泛的潜能,同时也能自我更新,因此还是很有有趣的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选