A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Latte, which is a homogeneous system, has a very, very large number of components to it All the components that make up the milk.

拿铁咖啡是个均匀系统，但它有非常非常多的组分,牛奶中的所有组分咖啡中的所有组分。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

If you have a large number of atoms in an aggregate, it is going to require that the substance turn solid and condense at room temperature.

如果有很多原子进行聚集，在室温下,会使的物质转变成固体状态。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The military also released photos of a large number of knives that it said were on the ships.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

That way you could deliver a small number of vectors and they could amplify into a large number of vectors.

这样你只需向细胞中转入少量载体,就能得到大量的拷贝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We've seen a number of very large companies that have suffered some tremendously embarrassing losses of data.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

That's a very large number, it's all relative, so you don't necessarily know it's large without me telling you or giving you other ions to compare to, but chlorine does have a very large affinity, meaning it's really likes getting an electron and becoming a chlorine ion.

这是个非常大的数值，这种数值都是相对的，因此你不一定能知道这是非常大的,除非我告诉你或给你另外离子数值作为参考，但是氯确实有很高的电子亲和能，这意味着它非常乐意得到一个电子,而变成一个氯离子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The study also found that alcohol drinking disabled a large number of people around the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The idea really took root--the idea, the intuitive idea is that as you write a large number of policies, the fraction that will result in accidents becomes closer and closer to the probability of one accident.

这种观点建立在...,观点是,只要你签的保单足够多,事故占保单总数的比例就会越来越接近,事故发生的概率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They are fantastic." Monica Jimenez and her daughters came from Colombia, a country that has a large number of orchid species.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

And it turns out that if we have a, for example, for s, a very large z effective or larger z effective than for 2 p, and we plug in a large value here in the numerator, that means we're going to end up with a very large negative number.

结果是如果我们有一个，举例来说对于s一个很大的有效电荷量或者,比2p大的有效电荷量，并且我们将一个较大的值代入计算器，那意味着我们最后会得到,一个非常大的负数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Twenty-six percent of Americans think that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize obviously not a very large number,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

That approach requires a large number of troops to provide security and help the local government assert its authority and deliver services.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told VOA that huge problems remain from last year's war, including the large number of people displaced by the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Opinion polls show that a large majority of Australians oppose adding to that number.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, obviously not a very large number,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

"And again it's relevant to the entire community." A growing number of large American companies are finding that health care costs for smokers are higher than for non-smokers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"If you look at the large studies, that were published over the last several years, including a large number of patients comparing Avandia to a placebo or other drugs, there was actually no increase in that risk.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

A UNHCR official based in South Sudan confirmed to VOA that it had started receiving a steady flow of refugees from the Central African Republic, adding to the large number of Congolese refugees who were displaced by the group.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"It is also important to remember that this is a cynical situation where the Tigers have herded a large number of people - thousands of people - into an enclave and used them as hostages to convince the international community to call for a cease-fire,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"We continue to monitor production of Russian mobile missiles to ensure that in their production of the SS-27 mobile , they are not also building,covertly, a missile called the SS-20 which was banned during the Reagan years [So there are a large number of measures which allow the governments to be confident that the other side is in fact carrying out the treaty,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.08