The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Well, if I go through that, the wavelength of such a photon is going to be so big that I am back to measuring the dimension of the human hair with the yardstick.

好的，如果我做完了这个，那个一光子的的波长将成为,我将回头测量的,用一个尺度测量出人头发的尺寸。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I think the reason why triathlon is not so, so big is just because it requires a lot of time.

我认为铁人三项运动之所以不够普及，
是因为它需要大量的时间。

对体育项目的热爱 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Young Paul grew so big that his parents did not know what to do with him.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

There's a whole bunch of stuff at the top which is wrapping in an ugly way 'cause I've made my font so big.

顶部有一大堆封装好的东西,看起来很丑，因为我们的字体设置的很大。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Others say he made a lasso so big that it circled the whole Earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The campus is only so big."

总归校园只有这么大而已“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The reason is that those plants are going to get so big that if you were to put three or four or six plants in, they are just going to be crowding each other out, and each plant is going to underperform."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

The chateau was so big that when it freezes, they were trying to get to the bathroom and most of them never made it and peed on these long corridors that some of you have seen.

那城堡太大了,以至于到了冬天结冰的时候,那些贵族们连想去卫生间都去不了,只能在长长的走廊里方便,如你们中有些人见过的那样

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So Los Angeles is sometimes called The Big Orange because of the fruit that grows in that city's warm climate.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

So, there's a whole lot of sensory organs, for instance, focused along your tongue, and that's why that's so big, and an enormous amount on your face but your shoulder isn't even— doesn't even make it on there because although your shoulder might be bigger than your tongue, there's not much going on.

比如,在你的舌头上,集中存在着非常多的感觉器官,也就是这片区域如此之大的原因,你的脸上也有数量庞大的感觉器官,但你的肩膀并没有,你的肩膀甚至都没有在示意图中标示出来,因为,尽管你的肩膀要比你的舌头更大,但却并没有什么感受器官

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A five-month federal investigation of the so-called flash crash suggested a single big trade may have been the cause.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

You know, really, just kind of, you know, with your head up, just looking at everything so big.

当你抬起头时，你看到的所有东西都是如此地巨大。

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

All these things cost money. So a plains farmer had to grow crops that were in big demand.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

but because Los Angeles is so big and so spread out, it's kind of difficult.

但是因为洛杉矶太大，面积太广，这很难。

大众交通枢纽 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

And sometimes when the classes are so big, you...

有时候上课的人很多，你……

热情的教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So,they used rainwater. Sarah helped her mother and sister carry water to fill big wooden containers.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Well, because the city is so big,

因为城市很大，

讲述伦敦的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So everybody's got big smiles and flowers for the kids and little gifts."

VOA: special.2010.06.03

So big opportunity for her.

对她来说这是一次很好的机会。

成功加入合唱团 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But when American warships arrived in Samoa, so did a big storm.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

So that's a big help. And equilibrium happens when there isn't any possible change of state that would satisfy this.

这个非常方便，当所有的变化,都无法满足这个公式的时候,系统就达到了平衡。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Even so, other reports showed big drops in housing sales in May.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

So it doesn't matter how big the dictionary is, you can instantaneously retrieve the value associated with the key. Extremely powerful.

因为你可以在线性时间，内得到想要的键对应的值,这太强大了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

I wrote it down your notes, if you can put a big star next to it so you don't forget this.

我写在了你们的讲义里，如果你们在旁边画上一个,大星号就不会忘记了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Actually, I also saw 'Robin Hood.' It was definitely an epic film but it was really dark and gloomy, so I wasn't as big of a fan of that."

VOA: special.2010.06.14

So, here's the syllabus: two big blocks, first block general principles of chemistry, 1 and that's the same whether you take 3.091 or 5.111 or 5.112.

这就是教学大纲，两大块，第一部分是化学的通则，关于这点，我们的课程1,还有，5。111课程以及，5。112课程都是一样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This is a baby elephant, so it's really, really big-- except it's a baby elephant, so it's really, really small."

这是只大象宝宝,所以它很大很大,但是它只是个大象宝宝,所以它其实又很小很小

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选