"But it's not a done deal by any stretch, and I still believe that Cleveland, New York and Chicago are all in the hunt."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

So multiplying a vector by a number means stretch it by that factor.

所以用数字乘以矢量,就相当于将它伸长了相应的倍数

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Well you could stretch it and say that an example of engineering to improve human health is getting them from one place to another, but that would be more of a stretch than I'm going to make.

你只能勉强地说,这个工程学成果能通过把人们从一个地方,带到另一个地方来提高人的健康水平,我只能联想到这个程度

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The second is something a little more subtle and that is to find different ways to use technologies to basically stretch the boundaries to What it means to learn at MIT.

大学教育水平,第二件重要的事更微妙些,就是去发现不同方式使用技术来伸展,此对于在麻理学习的意义的界限。

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not the panic zone,where it hurts-- the stretch zone, where there is excitement,where there's some nervousness.

不是会让人受伤的恐慌地带，而是延伸地带，其中有兴奋，还有点紧张。

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Typically, a mountain range will be the boundary between the area of two poleis or a stretch of water, because Greece has the sea winding through it everywhere.

比如,一座山脉,就能成为一种典型的城邦之间边界,由于希腊四处邻海,一段水域也可以成为边界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If you think about it like a rubber band, maybe the more we can stretch the rubber band the better; but if you stretch too far and the rubber band snaps, that's not good, that's bad.

你可以想象一个橡皮筋,也许把它伸展得越长越好,但是你把它伸展得过长,以至绷断,那就不好,那很糟糕

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Because the Mycenaean centers all reveal for that stretch of time that they're scared. The proof of it comes from strengthening their already quite strong walls in almost all the sites that we see, and also--this is a very important fact.

因为在迈锡尼文明的中心,有迹象表明在一段时期,他们受到了威胁,这样说的证据是,我们发现的几乎所有的遗迹,都在本就很坚固的城墙上继续加固,而且,这是一个很重要的史实

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.

人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢

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A section of DNA that is responsible for encoding a gene, let's say it's the insulin gene for example, might be some stretch of DNA on a certain chromosome inside your cells, inside the cells of the pancreas.

一段编码蛋白的DNA序列,我们就拿编码胰岛素的基因来举个例子,它也许是一段DNA基因序列,位于你胰腺细胞里的,某条染色体上

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If it's a stretch for you, I still recommend that you do it.

如果你觉得很勉强，我仍建议你一起来。

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