Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And also be well-informed as to what you need to do and the steps you need to take

对于你要做什么，要采取什么步骤，你都要保持消息灵通，

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And,they take pictures, just as Joe Rosenthal did on February twenty-third, nineteen forty-five.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Throughout the class, starting next week, we'll take what I called, " "time-ins" as opposed to "time-outs".

在这整个课程中，从下周开始，我们将进行我所说的，“练习时间“，而不是“休息时间。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The plan calls for Iran to send uranium abroad for enrichment, but Tehran countered with conditions to what was presented as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

And what I was trying to persuade her in this meeting was to take me on as one of her students, to let--to be my adviser.

谈话中，我试图说服她,接受我这个学生，做我的指导老师。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Tbilisi says Moscow maintains a position that it has the right to first agree to any action another country wants to take in former-Soviet states such as Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

So if we start actually pushing ourselves to think about examples-- does it really take one to know one--the answer is, at least as a general claim, it's not true.

所以假如我们开始,深入探讨一些例子,到底需不需要同类才能互知 答案是,至少通常来说,这是不需要的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Yet,in comments aired by the European Commission-backed network Euronews, Moldova's leading civil rights activist Natalia Morari, suggests that young people want pro-Western candidates, such as Ghimpu,to take power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Now one of the big advantages of plasmids,I already mentioned, is that you can take this plasmid and a plasmid is one - you can think of it as a highly tuned machine for copying itself.

质粒的一个很大优势,我提到过,是你可以用这个质粒,而质粒是一个--,你可以把质粒想成,一个高度调谐的自我复制的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says he hopes the U.S.and Burma could "take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

What this does, when you use relative risk you take some group of the population and you establish their risk as--at one.

当运用相对危险度这个概念时,要选定一个群组,并把这个群组的风险设为1

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Nevertheless, violations of the agreement take place every day, such as the predominantly pro-ZANU-PF coverage in the government-dominated media, and acts of intimidation against commercial white farmers by ZANU-PF militants.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Now, assuming that we trust the government-- I think the U.S. Government has never defaulted on its debt-- we'd take that as a riskless return.

假设我们信任政府-,假设美国政府从未拖欠债务-,可以把它当作无风险回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And he said Iran should be able to take advantage of all the opportunities in peaceful nuclear power engineering as long as the principal of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is adhered to.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

So, it seemed like a good start for me, pre-med/bio, and I signed up for my bio class -- I found out, as Professor Drennen did, that I had to take chemistry as well. I wasn't as upset, I was sort of a neutral chemistry person at this point, but I thought it was pretty smart to get it over with on the first semester, so that's what I did.

一个既在科学上有挑战又能帮助他人的职业，从医学预科或者生物起家-,我参加了生物课，我和Drennen教授一样，我也必须要上化学课，我并没有很不爽,我当时对化学的态度很中立。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

President Obama faces united Republican opposition to his health care reform plan, which would expand coverage to some 30 million more Americans, and take steps such as ending insurance company practices of denying coverage for pre-existing medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Now take these two fingers-- the middle finger and the thumb-- and as much as possible, from that 90 degree angle, create a circle.

再让这两个手指-,中指和姆指-,尽可能保持直角时围成一个圆圈。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Not everyone celebrated when Mihai Ghimpu became the first politician of Moldova's four-party ruling coalition to take office, as parliament speaker: All members of the Communist Party in parliament boycotted the vote and walked out of the legislature.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The question we need to turn to-- I take it that just as the dualist view is a familiar one, so it's true that the physicalist view is a familiar one.

需要注意的是,如果说二元论是一种熟知的观点,那么物理主义的观点其实也很常见

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Now many of you, as you are going through these "time-ins" if you decide to take this class may think, ?" "Well, is this what I'm paying 40,000 dollars a year for?

你们中很多人，在经历“练习时间“时可能会疑惑，“我一年付四万美金就是为了这个？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"And we will have to take action in London to make sure that the banking system is reformed, to ensure ourselves that our financial institutions can come to the aid of the poorest countries, and to make sure that we do what is necessary to ensure that there is strong growth and recovery - and particularly jobs in the world economy as a result of the actions that we take,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So-- if you don't feel comfortable doing it, don't do it-- what I'd like to do now is as following: Take your thumb and your middle finger and create as much as possible a 90 degree angle.

感觉不舒服的，就不要做，希望按下面的指示做：,让你的姆指和中指,尽可能形成一个直角。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Meanwhile, when people come back to ask for their gold, as long as they're willing to take other gold, that's apparently what they -they don't care whether they are the same coins.

同时,当人们回来取金子的时候,只要他们愿意拿到其他的金子就行了,非常明显,他们不介意这些金币是不是原来的那些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选