Tax-exempt means donors can claim their donations on their tax returns and possibly reduce the amount they owe the government.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Now, the coefficient that relates the amount of heat in to the temperature change is obviously going to be different for these two cases.

在这两个例子中,很显然联系热量和温度变化的系数,是不一样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And hopefully getting a degree and earning probably twice the amount you would if you are working.

顺利的话，你得到一个学位，挣的钱大概是你直接工作的两倍多。

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It limited the amount of money railroads could demand from people who needed to travel or transport their goods.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

It literally halves the amount of time it takes to solve that problem but we can actually do better.

它能把解决问题时间的缩短一半,但其实我们能做的更好。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She says the amount of space needed between the plants depends on how big you expect the heads to be.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The amount of work you've put in to get here depends on the path. It's not a function of state.

这些量就能,决定系统的状态了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The vaccine did not lower the amount of virus in the blood of volunteers who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

I draw a graph here of the amount by which I pull the spring versus the force it exerts.

我在这里画个图,纵轴是弹簧的拉伸量,横轴是力的大小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The decrease in the amount of dopamine can result in one or more of the general signs of Parkinson's.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

That means that the price of each share should decline by the amount they paid out divided by the number of shares.

这就意味着每股价格会降低,降低值为,总开支除以总股数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Unpleasant smells can be prevented by controlling the amount of food waste added to the bin and avoiding meat or bones.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

So the amount of output produced by the industry was somewhere between the case that would be under monopoly and under perfect competition.

亦即是行业产量,在某种程度上是介于,在垄断和完全竞争两种情况之间

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The amount of marketing, the total marketing burden has gone way up over the years.

营销的开支,最近几年营销费用的总量不断增长

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In many countries, women are half as likely as men to use fertilizers to increase the amount of crops.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

In fact, if you draw a diagram of a person, what their body is corresponding to the amount of somatosensory cortex, you get something like that.

事实上,如果你画一张人体示意图,在这张示意图中,将躯体感觉皮层面积与身体相对应,那么你就会得到这样的一张图

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That is the amount of time it took Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal to capture a historic image on film.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

By regular rate we mean that the amount of time that each chord holds is exactly the same; every chord holds for the same length of time.

如果变化频率规则，那么和声中每个和弦持续的时间长度是完全相同的;,每个和弦都持续同样长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide pollution that we produce as a result of our activities.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Remember last time, I said that there's different kinds of complexity in our code, and I suggested for simple branching programs, the amount of time it takes to run that program is, in essence, bounded by the number of instructions, because you only execute each instruction at most once.

但是这里有个很重要的点,记得上节课，我提过在我们的代码中，有不同种类的复杂度，而且我还说了对于简单的分支程序,运行这种程序需要的总体时间,大体上，是和指令的数目相关的,因为每个指令只会被执行最多一次。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And the animals usually avoid their own waste, so that reduces the amount of good grazing space even more.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The amount of water that you need to have the optimal sort of concentrations of things is determined by how much urine your kidneys produce and how much they excrete each day.

为了保持体内物质的理想浓度,所需的水量,取决于肾脏每天产生,以及排出体外的尿量

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.

但是接着我们可能会想，对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数，相对于平均寿命，刚好五成的人活得更长，五成的人活得更短。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If someone offers me an amount that is close to my selling price, I might say the amount is in the ballpark.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

This will be the definition of the mole as the amount of carbon weighing exactly 12 grams, so I would like to know now how many particles, how many carbons are there in that mole.

摩尔的定义就是,12克的碳的数量，我想知道有多少粒子，一摩尔会有多少碳粒子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They are the amount a person drinks on average and heavy drinking at one time, called "binge drinking."

VOA: special.2009.09.08

So, remember what we're talking about here is the amount of energy that's in each photon.

所以，记住我们这里谈论的是,每个光子的能量值。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But if you look at the amount of money that the club makes from Asia, it's huge.

但是，如果你看一下俱乐部从亚洲挣的钱，真是巨大的一笔呀。

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