"But it's not a done deal by any stretch, and I still believe that Cleveland, New York and Chicago are all in the hunt."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

not the panic zone,where it hurts-- the stretch zone, where there is excitement,where there's some nervousness.

不是会让人受伤的恐慌地带，而是延伸地带，其中有兴奋，还有点紧张。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If it's a stretch for you, I still recommend that you do it.

如果你觉得很勉强，我仍建议你一起来。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

This is going to be a little bit of a stretch for imagination, but imagination yourself as a Roman general, and let's figure out what you're going to do.

发挥你的想象力,想象你是一位罗马将军,我们来看看你应该怎么办

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If you think about it like a rubber band, maybe the more we can stretch the rubber band the better; but if you stretch too far and the rubber band snaps, that's not good, that's bad.

你可以想象一个橡皮筋,也许把它伸展得越长越好,但是你把它伸展得过长,以至绷断,那就不好,那很糟糕

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A section of DNA that is responsible for encoding a gene, let's say it's the insulin gene for example, might be some stretch of DNA on a certain chromosome inside your cells, inside the cells of the pancreas.

一段编码蛋白的DNA序列,我们就拿编码胰岛素的基因来举个例子,它也许是一段DNA基因序列,位于你胰腺细胞里的,某条染色体上

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选