It was a low,dull,quick sound -- much a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

This may sound a little bit too much, but I'm no different than that animal, than that tree, than that rock.

这也许一下子很难接受，但我与各种动物没有不同，也与树木，岩石无异。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In "Mowing," the scythe makes a sound as it cuts, and that sound is delicate, it's quiet, it whispers.

在“割草“中镰刀割草时发出声响，这个声音很微弱，安静，像低声细语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Neither "As I Lay Dying" nor "The Sound and the Fury" was a great success.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Before long the speaker realizes that this fantasy is starting to sound a little extreme or maybe a little dangerous.

不久之后诗歌发言者意识到,这个幻景,开始听起来有点过头或危险了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Animal Collective has a sound all its own.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

So, saying wave functions within molecules might sound a little confusing, but remember we spent a lot of time talking about wave functions within atoms, and we know how to describe that, we know that a wave function just means an atomic orbital.

说分子内的波函数可能,听着有点容易搞混，但记住我们花了很多时间,讨论了原子中的波函数，而且我们知道如何去描述它，我们知道波函数意味着原子轨道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

While ElBaradei has said Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not disclosing the plant's existence earlier, he used the news conference to sound a note of caution about Iran's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

This may sound appealing enough, but here I have to issue a warning.

也许听起来蛮动人，不过我要事先提个醒。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The sound had a rougher and more rebellious edge than the highly produced country music coming out of Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Well,you can just--an engineer will just sit there and isolate that second of sound and then give a "times three" command and "boom," well,look at Pavarotti hold out that note.

嗯，你可以想象，工程师会只坐在那里，分离出的第二个声音,然后给了三拍命令和砰“,好吧，看帕瓦罗蒂能拖出那个音。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

For example, read copies of a group's financial records and be careful of groups with names that sound like well-known charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

We have above the line a concept and we have below the line a sound image.

这条线的上面是一个概念,下面是声音所代表的图像。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Now do that in a sound byte on a national radio station when you got two minutes to answer.

这时你就得为全国听众一字一句地,在两分钟时间内解答这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

If it was sound that was being received that might be beating of a drum, for example, that sound gets transduced.

如果将配体看作是,有待接受的敲鼓声,声音信号得到了转换

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The wind came again. Finally,the men heard a new sound C the sound of waves breaking and crashing on the shore.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

So, hedge funds do not advertise, that's why people don't know about them and they have a mysterious -they sound mysterious.

对冲基金公司做不了广告,那也是公众并不了解他们的原因,他们披着一层神秘的面纱...,他们听起来挺神秘的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Even if you're like me and you don't know a word of either language, they still sound different.

即使你像我一样,完全不懂这两种语言,它们听起来仍然是不一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Sony and Philips, another electronics manufacturer, worked together to create a new storage device for digital sound -- the compact disc.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

By the way, if this is beginning to sound like a wrestling match, I don't mean it to.

顺便说一下,我可没有把这个博弈,弄得像摔跤比赛的意思

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The laugh is a lot like the "wow." It's that sound you make just because you're experiencing something, just because you're having a response to what's in front of you, something someone says.

这笑声很像“哇“这个字，是一种,因为正在经历某些事而发出的一种声音，作为你对面前发生的事或是，一些人说的话的反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But he later broke away from this neoclassical sound to create a freer and more expressive modernist sound.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Now Milton knows that this might sound a little silly coming from a young man.

现在弥尔顿发觉,对于一个年轻人来说那听起来有点愚蠢。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

树林边静悄悄，只有一点声音，那是我的长镰在对大地低语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And now, if I'm touching mouse pointer, we saw that Boolean expression before, play sound meow, wait a couple of seconds, and then just keep checking.

现在，如果我们碰下鼠标指针，起初我们看到一个布尔表达式，播放猫叫的声音，等几秒钟，然后如刚才那样做检测。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选