"And poor people tend to live in neighborhoods that are less safe and have fewer opportunities for physical activity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

I've been teaching this stuff for twenty years, and I tend to find two basic kinds of students who shop my classes for the New Testament Introduction course.

这门课我上了20年，发现所有参加新约导论的学生,大致可归为两类。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

most people tend to over-train for whatever activity they're trying to do.

大部分人不管试着做什么都会过度练习。

健康生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Hawkings said the Tea Party victories could actually turn out to be a disadvantage for Republicans in the November general elections, because Tea Party candidates tend to be viewed as too far to the right ideologically by moderate voters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

If you are a political--If you are running for office, you will tend to have volunteers and not necessarily pay people.

如果你要竞选政府职位，你往往会招一些志愿者，不用付他们钱的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Those are the categories of value that we tend to associate or to affiliate with our other favorite writers, writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, for example.

我们往往将这类正面的感受,与其他一些喜爱的作家相联系，这些作家千差万别，例如莎士比亚和佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For example, people tend to believe that their team will win; this has been documented by psychologists.

比如,人们倾向于相信他们支持的球队会赢,心理学家已经证明了这点

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Lent is you give up one thing, so I tend to give up sugar and meat during that month. For the entire time, listen it doesn't compare to Ramadan, where you really have no water.

在大斋期，你要放弃一样东西,因此我在那个月不吃糖和肉，但是这和，赖买丹月无法相比，因为在赖买丹月你甚至都没水喝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We in religious studies tend to like these terms, AD rather than BC, Before Christ, and AD, because AD actually stands for Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

在宗教研究中我们喜欢用这两个术语，而不用BC，即“基督前“和，因为AD其实是Anno，Domini的缩写，即“主的年份“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

they tend to prefer to bring people on for short-term contracts,

他们都通常喜欢雇佣短期合同工，

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We tend to think of the separation of powers doctrine as necessary for the security and liberty of the individual ? don't we?

我们倾向于,将分权原理想成是,个人安全与自由的必备条件,不是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Simon Baron-Cohen argues that there are certain abilities that tend to be more sequestered for males, and other abilities that are more sequestered, more focused on females.

西蒙·伯龙·科恩认为,男性倾向于拥有某些能力,而女性则更倾向于拥有另一些能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A lot of the demonstrations have to do with intelligence so, for example, there's actually been studies showing that people tend to overestimate the intelligence of professors.

而很多现象都跟智力有关，例如，有研究表明,人们往往会高估教授的智力。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It doesn't work so easily to share with those people along the lines that these communities--I think these communes tend to emphasize a social compact, a feeling for each other, a caring for each other, which is a lovely thought but it doesn't achieve risk management on a big scale.

但要实现跟满足这些条件的人分摊风险,绝非易事,这些共同体。。。我指这些公社,倾向于强调一种社会凝聚力，一种人与人的深情和关怀，这个想法听上去很美,但无法实现大规模有成效的风险管理。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Peace is for Hobbes a moral good and the virtues are those qualities of behavior that tend to peace and vices are those that lead to war. Consider the disadvantages of war and the benefits of peace.

对霍布斯来说，和平这种道德情操和,美德把人们引向和平,相反，邪恶使人们坠入战争深渊,思考一下战争的弊病和,和平的优势。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选