They become sticky and harden into the shape of the letter C, like a sickle, a hand tool with a curved blade.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

And just to give you a sense, if you do a cross-cut of this, you cannot show it from this angle, but it should really be sort of a dumbbell shape with the nodal plane in between the two nuclei.

告诉你们这些就是给你们点概念，假如你们把他横切切开，不能从角度上展示，但它还是会保留几分哑铃的形态,以及在两核之间的节面。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So there's a kind of wedge shape with regard to the instruments too.

就是说在乐器的使用方面,也存在一种楔形模式

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One day in eighteen seventy-nine while delivering mail Mister Cheval found a rock with a strange shape.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

So this is page 741: Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on.

在第741页：,真理确实同她的虔诚的主人在人间走过一次，是一个被看作是最完美最高贵的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The shape of a snow crystal may change from one form to another as the crystal passes through levels of air with different temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

All we have to figure out is how many nodes we're dealing with and then we can get the general shape of the graph here.

我们要知道的就是有多少个节点,然后我们就能得到图的大致形状了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Melanoma often looks like a dark area with an unusual shape.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

So, first impressions can shape subsequent impressions not just when dealing with people.

所以第一印象能决定后来的印象,这不仅针对人而言。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

These new forms of communication are helping Iranian youth communicate with each other and shape their identity just as Sedaei did.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

We're going to keep using the things that exist in space, virtual or not, and the things that unfold in time in their relationship with each other as we continue to try to understand these basic principles which shape so much of subsequent literary theory. Thank you.

我们将继续解释事物的存在，无论它们是否可见，我们会学习语言在一段时间里的关系,随着我们继续学习这些基本的概念,我们会进一步理解文学理论，谢谢。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

(Speaking) With LASIK,doctors use a laser to permanently change the shape of the cornea to improve vision.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

If you are playing a downbeat with an up-bow are you in good shape? No, no, no, no.

如果你用上弓去拉重音,你的形状会好吗,不会,绝对不会

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"The President and Secretary Clinton both see India as a really important partner for us, not only in addressing bilateral issues, but also in working with us to shape the world of the 21st century."

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

We'll start with talking about the shape, just like we did with the s orbitals, and then move on to those radial probability distributions and compare the radial probability at different radius for p orbital versus an s orbital.

想我们对待ｓ轨道那样，我们先讨论ｐ轨道的形状，然后是径向概率密度分布,并且把ｓ轨道和ｐ轨道在,不同半径处的径向概率做一个比较。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So they're the same shape, this is the shape of the orbital or the shape of the wave function, and we can call this either 2 p x a being combined with 2 p x b, or we could say since it's the same shape, it's 2 p y a being combined with 2 p y b.

它们形状是一样的，这是轨道的形状或者波函数的形状，我们叫它2pxa和2pxb结合，或者我们说因为它们的形状是一样的，它是2pya和2pyb结合。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选