Or,what better way is there to sell gasoline than to say that using it is like putting a tiger in your tank.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And this spin is an intrinsic quality of the electron, it's a property that is intrinsic in all particles, just like we would say mass is intrinsic or charge is intrinsic.

自旋是电子的本征量，它是所有粒子的本征性质，就像我们说质量是本征的或者电荷是本征的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Thats a really big deal. Without it, anything like the modern stock market, I'd say,is impossible."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

I was hoping for a simpler answer, which is, just run it. Which is, yeah I know, seems like a dumb thing to say, right?

我希望一个简单点儿的答案，比如说去运行它吧，这方法看起来挺笨的对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But others say the extremely modern design of the buildings is insulting because it is not like the design of the city's historic buildings.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

And what we want to say of course is, look, just like it's still your body, even if you break your arm.

因此我们可以说，即便你摔断了胳膊，你的肉体也还是原来的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

And, people, for example, who follow the Lyon opera always say, "Well, our opera is fine but it's nothing, of course, like Paris,where all the resources are poured into Paris."

还有,例如,那些里昂戏剧的拥簇者们总是说,我们的戏剧很好,而且,与汇集各路资源的巴黎戏剧截然不同

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Today many adults say it is still one of the stories they like best.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

They take those descriptions and the scientist that is known and they try to design new things, and so if you look at a dictionary it has words like this, that you're designing things or another way to say that is that you're trying to apply science, you're looking at applications.

他们利用已知的,科学原理和描述,来设计新东西,因此,如果你查字典时看到这样的词条,设计产品或者换句话说,试图应用科学原理,那么你看的这个词就是应用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"At the beginning of the year, it seemed like [the kids would say 'Oh,I'm getting tired, this is too long - when are we going back to school?'

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.

艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说，哦，我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣，因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事，他会很震惊。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The agencies say though this may sound like a lot, it really is not, considering that $39 billion will cut child pneumonia deaths by 65 percent by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

It will typically look like this and the formula we say is F = - kx, where k is called "The force constant."

图像看上去一般就像这样,对应的式子是 F = - kx,k 叫做"弹性系数"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"As I like to say it, the Pops is the orchestra for people who don't know they like orchestras" Keith Lockhart,who's been conducting the Boston Pops for the past 16 years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

But if you avoid all of these minutia and focus really just on the idea, it looks like what was a blue say block, a so called statement, is now going to be something called printf where the F happens to stand for formatted.

但是如果你抛开所有这些繁琐的细节，把注意力集中到,它的编程思想，那么它只不过一个蓝色的say程序块，是一个声明,即所谓的printf函数，其中的f是,用于格式化输出。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But Kian is not alone. Researchers say it's not uncommon for journalists who cover traumatic events - like 9/11, Haiti or the Iran elections - to experience high levels of emotional and psychological distress, even long after the immediate danger has ended.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The reason that it seems difficult to say though is because it seems like it would be just as plausible to say the reverse.

但真的要说出来似乎有困难,因为反过来说也貌似合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well,it seems like what we would want to say is,Yeah,that's Napoleon.

我们似乎就想说，对，那是拿破仑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Just like,with the body view,we wanted to say, Being alive is not all it's cracked up to be, the real question is not,am I alive,on the body view?

从肉体理论上，我们想要说，存活一事并非所想，真正的问题是，肉体理论角度看来，我还活着吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And then, having given the counter example That is to say, what I'm going to give is an example of an argument just like it, or at least an argument that seems to be just like it where we can pretty easily see that that argument doesn't work.

在给了这个反例之后,也就是说,我要给一个,与之相似的论证的例子,或者至少看起来,与之类似的一个论证,我们能够很容易地看到,那个论证是不正确的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, according to quantum mechanics under the standard interpretation, that's all there is to say about it. You have an atom like that, 80 percent chance in the next 24 hours it will break down.

按照量子力学的正统理论,也就是说,在未来二十四小时内,这个原子有百分之八十的概率会分裂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选