But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Fourth, there's generally some arrangement, either for the publication of the treaty, or its deposition, its safe-keeping in some sort of shrine.

第四是一些笼统的安排，对条约的公布，或者废除，然后放在圣坛里，安全保管。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And so we need to have this mix of sort of-thank you da-da-da-da-boom. Anyway, moving right along.

所以我们需要把各种动力,混合在一起，不管怎样，始终往前发展。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Well,sort of.Hanukkah -- the Jewish Festival of Lights -- really is eight days.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

In Hardy here, and in other poems, there's this sort of wonderfully, self-consciously archaic language.

哈迪的这首诗还有其他诗中，有一种,绝妙的不自然的古英语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"People are sort of fact-checking what they have heard from a doctor.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

So you sort of have a zero-base budgeting model of, "If we were a start-up, what would we do? How would we organize to deliver value to the customers?"

所以得有一个零基础预算模式，如果我们从头开始，我们该做什么,我们如何组织以带给客户价值“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There you can actually do sort of substance analysis which you can't really do by conventional x-ray."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

These low mountains are cut by some valleys that sort of run east-west ; you will see one there, the Valley of Jezreel, in particular; that was a particularly fertile valley.

那些矮小的山丘被东西走向的山谷截断,你在这里会看到一个耶斯列山谷;,这是一个富饶肥沃的山谷。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I don't know-I'd be surprised if they didn't find some sort of modus vivendi with the Saudis.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

All right? And I'm going to say-- sort of set that stage here, so that-- It turns out that that's probably about the best we can do, or again ends at the length of the list.

我要说的是，这一阶段的集合,我们用最优的方法完成,还是取决于列表的长度，好的，还是回到了我的问题上了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Grant says the alliance will develop an easy-to-use, on-line risk management program to help companies sort through a minefield of legal and environmental regulations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"The North as you know has been engaged in all sort of behavior. There have been ups and downs in that entire progress, the six-party talks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

And that is the sort of psycho-analytic one, ascribing this sense of lost in the past, to the death of Welles's mother.

这里面也有一点心理分析的成分，将迷失在过去的感觉归因于，是威尔斯母亲的去世。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"Same sort of strategy - you have to keep yourself in a mobile position,". "And know that I have a lot in that last 250 .

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

One is a sort of short-term type of prediction and that is looking at investing and purchasing products.

其中一个区域主管短期预测,主要在投资和购买物品时发挥作用。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"Here you are facing a very hardened sort of fighters, who are die-hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So,the military created a new armored vehicle, a sort of cross between a Humvee and a tank, and called it the MRAP, the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protect vehicle.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

I really am just not a fan of the sort of zone-out model of lecture audition.

因为我不喜欢大家,在上课的时候走神。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So that my family was a sort of non-violent resistance family.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

This angelic laser begins slowly the gradual process in some kind of extraordinary science-fiction sort of way of transforming the virginal human body to the essence of the soul itself.

这天国的激光开始了这渐渐的过程,用一种很特别的科幻小说的方式,把人纯净的身体变成灵魂的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To this day in Little Havana, the food, including black beans and rice and frita cubanas - hamburgers of a sort, topped with grated fried potatoes - is Cuban.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Well, the discount rate is sort of the--you notice there are two different interest rates here and you might be confused by them.

贴现率是一种,这里有两种不同的利率,你们可能会将其混淆

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

it was sort of a combat-to-combat, different,Korea-to-Vietnam, sort of thing.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

So this is wonderful this sort of cross- semination of genres here, bringing this particular instrument, the traditional classical violin, into the popular realm.

所以这很好,这种不同音乐风格间的传播,把小提琴,这种传统乐器引入到流行音乐的领域

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If we had this sort of progressive all-radical alteration, not just minimal alteration, but radical alterations of my memory, my beliefs, my desires, my tastes.

如果我们持续经历剧烈变化，不只是最小的变化，而是自己的记忆，信仰，渴望，品味都发生剧烈变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选