This week: We play music by Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan, And answer a listener question about the nation's capital,Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

And in the end, when it's at equilibrium, and you look and you'd make a measurement, right, you could do spectroscopy.

当他处于平衡状态的时候，你可以做测量，比方说做光谱分析。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

or that you see the applications of, in day-to-day life and I'd say that's probably... had the biggest effect on me.

或者你能看见，日常生活的应用，让我说这或许是…他对我最大的影响。

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Here is part of it. "I used to try on Mommy's jeans, just to see how they'd fit on me.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

And that's the kind of instinct I'd like you to get into thinking about. So the answer here is no.

所以答案是否定的,好的，那我们能在线性时间内排序么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Now remember, we went through before how it's a state function but to calculate it, you'd need to find a reversible path, along which you can figure this out.

请记住，我们不需要知道它是怎样的一个态函数,只计算就可以了，你需要找到一条可逆路径，沿着这条路径就能算得这个结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That was part of a speech that first lady Michelle Obama gave at George Washington University's graduation ceremony in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

I think it's very difficult, indeed I think it's impossible, to think of anything you'd want to do forever.

我认为很难，其实我认为不可能，想出一件你希望永远做下去的事。

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Basically,it's like lip synching with a guitar." Lance "The Shred" Kasten from Washington,D.C.,made it to the final round of competition.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

We don't feel physically attracted to each other anymore, there's no passion, but we'd better stay together for the kids, right?

对双方的身体提不起兴趣，没有激情，纯粹为了孩子而生活在一起？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Writing's something I've always done. My imagination kind of turned into words, and I'd start putting those words on a page."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

It's above what we'd like; we'd like it to be more like 2% 4% is high.

这超过了我们的偏好；,我们希望它在2%到4%的范围内。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

d1 2 3 And we can do that just going along, 3 d 1, 2 3, and the problem comes when we get to chromium here, which is instead of what we would expect, 4s23d4 we might expect to see 4 s 2, 3 d 4.

我们能做的就是继续，问题出现了,当我们来到铬元素时，它不是我们预期的那样，我们可能预期。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C., has one of the oldest known pairs of Levi's jeans in its collection.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

That's awesome. So, I'd love to see projects like that.

太棒了。所以我想看到这样的工程。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Here's a little video clip that I'd like to show you that talks about evolution and how humans have evolved in relationship to their food.

接下来我们看段视频,主要讲述了生物演化,还有人类和食物之间的演化关系

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It struck the Lady Elgin. But the Augusta's Captain D.M.Malott continued on to Chicago, failing to help victims on the passenger boat.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

But there are some puzzles, some strange features of Locke's account of consent as the basis of legitimate government and that's what I'd like to take up today.

洛克关于同意是合法政府建立基础的理论,也有些令人困惑和奇怪的地方,而这正是我今天要讲的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We asked the Washington,D.C., arts blogger Bob Anthony how this summer's festival compared to those of past years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Here it is; it's in your anthology as well: I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.

你们选集里有这首：,我为我的歌儿缝就,一件长长的外套,上面缀满剪自古老,神话的花边刺绣；,但蠢人们把它抢去，穿上在人前炫示,俨然出自他们之手。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

D.C.United won the M.L.S.Cup, the league championship, on the strength of a Most Valuable Player performance by Olsen.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."

因此经济愈发不景气，你们会说“天哪，我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗？,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的，哦天哪，我想向广告商招标，总会有消费者需求的“

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We would like to hear from you. Write to us at Special English, Voice of America, Washington,D.C., two-zero-two-three-seven,U.S.A.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

but in terms of Ivy League schools, I'd say, I'd say it's a... from what I know at least,

就常春藤联盟的学校而言，我只能说，就我所知，

类似常春藤 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The Heavens Are Hung In Black" by James Still is the first play being presented in the newly redecorated Ford's Theatre in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

So, whether or not the email is addressed specifically to you in like the two field or if maybe you were BCC'd or it's a big email list of which you're just part, that could signify that this is in fact useful for you.

所以，不管这个邮件是不是,单独发给你的,或者这个邮件有一个大的邮件列表,而你正在其中，其实这也暗示了,这个邮件对你是有用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Remember, this whole story takes place under the aegis of his alienation from himself. He's thinking about what he'd like to do in the funhouse.

记住，所有的故事发生在他自己疏离的,状况下，他在考虑在开心馆里他,要做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选