When you're teenagers, you don't quite know what to write on there. Little Os and Xs for kisses and things like that.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I can touch it, I'm not controlling it, it doesn't recognize me and say, "Hey Steve, stop beating on me."

我能够摸它，却不能控制它，它不可能认识我，还说“别打我了史蒂夫“

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

I don't know, to just hold on to and to have and it's, they've had it for years, you know, like.

坚持经过这么多年保留下来的东西，

观众是我的动力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Theres plenty of room for more." "And there'll be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

In your estimation, and you don't have to go on a record, you can change your mind after leaving Inner Core.

在您的看法中，您不用将看法录下来，您可以在离开人性讲堂后改变想法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The woman went on speaking. "The house got sadder and sadder, but she didn't seem to mind.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

I am a specialist of atoms that are left-handed on Thursday afternoons, and don't talk to me about anything else.

我就是原子方面的专家,在周三下午是左撇子，并且不要和我谈论其他方面的任何东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Roberto Clemente once said: "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Energy can flow across the glass but I put a lid on top, and so the water can't get out.

能量可以穿过杯壁流动,但是我在顶上加了盖子，所以水不能跑出来。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Paul couldn't sleep. He sat on the floor and stared into the darkness until morning came.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

So if you don't actually assign to something, it falls on the floor and the value goes away.

所以是，如果你没有赋值，它掉在地上，那个值就不存在了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"There's a lot of sketching that goes on,and a lot of times I don't know where things are going to fit in the texture.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

That's why when he talks on and on, it's as if Franny isn't even there listening to him.

那就是为什么当他一直说呀说，即使弗兰尼并没有在听。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I don't think President Obama and the Democrats were expecting to have to spend so much time on health care because it is dragging on.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

But, I think what most of you, actually having MIT come to MIT, have probably realized is sometimes it's nice to major in a science, because you can't just pick up a reaction and do it in your kitchen on the weekend, where as you can sometimes join a book group and do that.

但我认为对你们大多数人来说,既然来了,可能已经意识到最好是主修一门科学,因为你不能在你,周末的时候在厨房里做化学实验,然后你就可以参加一个读书俱乐部。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The court of appeals is where policy is made, and I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law.I know,I know.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

T-Bone Burnett has also written and performed on Costello's albums.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

How likely are all the inputs, are they all equally likely, or are they going to depend on other things? And that may depend on the user, so you can't kind of get at that.

他们大致相同么？,他们依赖于其他事情么？,输入也跟用户有关,因此你没法完全得出结果来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I told my parents that I didn't want them to help me with money this summer so the two main jobs, the one on campus and at the environmental consulting firm, are mainly to make money for rent and utilities and all that."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

If it's got Napoleon's memories,beliefs,desires,goals, and so forth and so on,wouldn't we say it's Napoleon?

如果他有拿破仑的记忆，信念，欲望，目标，诸如此类的东西，我们难道不认为他是拿破仑？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"You think you've got your own computer all to yourself and you can't tell the difference that you're working on something other than a computer and sharing this other resource and doing it at a much lower cost than having your own PC."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

They don't ask you to just be humble and throw yourself on the ground and consider yourself as nothing compared to the god,or the gods.

希腊人不要求你表现得很谦卑,也不会把你一脚踩在地上,认为你与上帝或诸神相比一无是处

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It was pretty much of a shock when I got here. I mean,if you're going to talk to some of your friends about some of the stuff you saw -- and you can't describe the smells, the feeling of the heat on your body and the sweat running down your back.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And if they didn't need to pay me, then I wouldn't have any income to put food on the table for my wife and children.

如果他们不雇我,我就没有任何收入,来养妻活儿

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

It occured to me yesterday in my class that maybe someday there won't be social security numbers anymore, and on birth everybody will be given an e-mail address.

我昨天上课的时候想到,或许有天大家出生时,得到的将不是社会福利号码,而是一个邮箱地址。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I didn't understand that until later on. And everyone's unique and that's what makes people exciting to watch."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

And when we don't see the seed of greatness, when we don't water it and shed a light on it, it withers and dies, which is unfortunately the fate of most human potential.

如果我们看不见学生的潜能，不去栽培它，它就会枯萎而死，遗憾的是，大部分人类潜能都因此而被磨灭。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, if you're looking back, say, from the end of the nineteenth century, it's not easy to see, but you can see these-- don't ever think that history runs on railroad tracks, and all you need is the timetable to show when modernization shows up.

所以,当你回顾历史,从十九世纪的末尾开始,虽然不太容易,但还是可以看出...,别以为历史是在固定轨道上行进的,别以为你只用拿时刻表,就知道新时代什么时候来临

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选