He discovered that finches that lived in different places and ate different foods had different shaped beaks.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

So what is this radical new idea that shaped a culture and enabled its survival into later antiquity and really right into the present day in some form?

到底什么观点造,造就了这种文化,并使犹太人在后来幸存下来呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They drew upon these sources but they blended and shaped them in a particular way.

他们源于那些原有的故事,又以特定的方式来加工塑造它们。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In its purest form, clay can be shaped and stretched and used to make objects.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The appropriate way to live gets shaped, at least in part, by the fact that we're going to die, that we won't be around forever.

合适的生活方式至少在部分上，被我们会死去，我们将永远不存在，这个事实改变了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Traditional Easter meals of lamb were organized in the camps and Italian dove-shaped Easter cake was also handed out.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

So on the left hand side of this particular languages environment I have some puzzle pieces and they are shaped and colored ; in a manner that hints out their functionality; any blocks that tell the Cat as we'll see in a moment, what to do something happen to be orange.

在这个程序语言界面的左手边有一些拼图,他们的形状和颜色代表他们的功能,我们马上就能看到;,任何一个给计算机发出指令的图块，都是橙色的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Try to Remember" is set in Miami in the late 1960's, an era shaped by political and social changes, including new roles for women.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

They believed in the gods,they were religious people, but the core of their lives was shaped by human things in a way different from what was true of the Hebrews and the Christians later on, that is a Divine view.

他们信神灵,他们是有宗教信仰的,但他们生命意义的核心却是以人为本的,这和《希伯来书》中所写的截然不同,和稍后的基督教教义也有差异,那些是人权神授的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

I've shown the differences here in terms of shape, these are shaped liked octagons and these are shaped like squares, but if I looked at these cells, what would I find that's really different about them?

我展示了一些细胞形态上的差异,这些细胞是八角形的,这些是方形的,但如果仔细观察这些细胞,我能找到一些本质上的差异吗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

John Silvia is the senior economist at Wells Fargo Bank: "Private payroll gains continue to be modest and I would say it does raise flags for those super optimists who were looking for a V-shaped recovery and thinking that we are going to go back to normal very quickly in the US.economy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Now we'll go back further than 10,000 years to talk about the history of food, but in those--but at 10,000 years ago several very important changes happened that have shaped to a great extent what our modern relationship with food is.

让我们回到一万多年前,来讨论饮食史,但是,一万年前,发生了一些很重要的变化,这些变化很大程度上塑造了,现代人类与食物的关系

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So the normal--the bell-shaped curve in that case for the x/n is going to look something like this.

那么x/n的钟形曲线,大概就会是这个样子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Antibodies look like this, they're big proteins, if you looked at them under a microscope or if you looked at them in cartoons they're shaped like the letter Y.

抗体看起来就像这样,它们是大型蛋白,如果你用显微镜观察抗体,或者从图上看的话,它们都呈字母Y形

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选