As a matter of fact, Tony Hayward didn't take his coat off until probably the sixth or seventh week into the crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

And all this is, is saying that when you take a mixed second derivative, it doesn't matter in which order you take the two derivatives.

麦克斯韦关系的本质是,当你考虑混合的二阶导数时，求导的顺序不影响最后的结果,现在，我们利用这些关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Does it really matter to you whether your code is going to take 300 years or 900 years to run?

或者900年区别大么？,这个数字的规模才是问题关键所在？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

South Korea and the United States have announced they will conduct a joint anti-submarine exercise, widely expected to take place within a matter of weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

More than one can say or care to admit, it may ultimately be a matter of temperament which path one chooses to take.

比起大家可以说出来或者愿意承认的程度更甚，可能最终,选择走那条路的问题会成为一个个性问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Palestinians say they decided to take the matter of statehood to the U.N.Security Council out of frustration that 16 years after the signing of the Oslo accords there is still no peace agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

I think maybe the best option is to take both if you're really interested in the subject matter.

如果你真的对金融很感兴趣的话,我觉得最明智的选择就是都选

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"As a matter of fairness, the committee concluded, we should offer the prime minister, if he wished to take it up, the opportunity for him, for David Miliband his foreign secretary and Douglas Alexander the development secretary to attend hearings before the general election,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Which do we take, which is the matter of ultimate concern ? or care for us? Which?

我们会选哪一种，哪一种才是我们最至要,或关心的事？哪一种？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And the reason that quantum mechanics is going to work where classical mechanics fails is that classical mechanics did not take into account the fact that matter has both wave-like and particle-like properties, and light has both wave-like and particle-like properties.

上发生的行为,量子力学得以成功,而经典力学却失败的原因,是因为经典力学,不能包容物质的，波动性和粒子性,和光的波动性和粒子性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

When you take away somebody's name they matter less.

当你除掉别人的名字时，他们的重要性就降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the point is Reagan supported that effort and that made all the difference, and it took a lot of courage Reagan was going to take the recession in 1982 He was willing to support Volker no matter what to get the inflation down ... Alright, so... Interest rates in the summer of 1980 were quite high Yes, they were.

但是，里根力挺了这次货币改革,这才是重点，下这样的决心不容易,里根本打算在1982年来狠抓经济衰退2,他很信任沃尔克,为了降低通胀率，可以不惜一切代价,好吧，那么。,1980年夏天，银行利率已经相当高了,没错，确实如此。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So long as I say I'm gonna put a string here, it doesn't matter what string it is, GetString is gonna take care of the job of getting it from the user.

把变量放在这，我们先不要管这个string是什么，GetString会负责,从用户那里获取该值。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Constant. Ooh, constant says, no matter what the length of the list is, I'm going to take the same amount of time.

这个算法用的时间是相同的，我不这么认为，如果我们创建一个十倍于以前大小的数组。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

At each stage, no matter which branch, here or here, I take, I'm cutting down the length of the list that I'm searching in half. All right?

选的是这里还是那里,我总是把列表分成两半，对吧？,所以如果我处理一个长度为n的列表？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选