"We were looking at effect of delivery mode on the very first bacteria that the baby is exposed to."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

The defiling effect of lesser transgressions is calibrated to the sinner's intentionality and the presence or absence of repentance.

相对较轻的犯罪带来的亵渎影响,随罪人的犯罪动机,是否出席祭祀仪式和是否悔改而变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One effect of the attempt to blow up flight 253 is increased security at international airports in Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

I didn't even need to know that heat capacity of the product, right. Because it's effect the thermal mass of the product is negligible compared to the thermal mass of the calorimeter.

我甚至不需要知道生成物的,热容是多少，因为生成物的,热质量的作用相比于,量热计的热质量是可以忽略的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And so while there are signs that some of the things that the president is doing are starting to have effect, these problems did not get made overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

In a way, there's a subset of questions that arises from those, to the effect that this is, of course, what we'll be taking up next time: the question "What is an author?"

从这些大问题中又会产生一些小问题，这些问题也将是我们以后会讨论的：,关于文学的缘由，我们接着又会问，“作者是谁？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We think that there is a need, while we are treating this matter, to examine the effect, or the impact of whatever decision that will be taken on the peace process in eastern Congo."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

And so what you want to do, basically drawing upon the law of effect, is reinforce the pig for doing good things.

你所要做的就是，应用效果律，强化这头猪做出的令你满意的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"These are all part of the process of engagement with them, with the view of delivering on what is the objective which is democratization of Myanmar and respect for human rights, and in effect restoring Myanmar to respectability as a member of the international community,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

That people would disappear as a distinctive entity, and in effect, that is what happened to the ten tribes of the northern kingdom to a large degree.

原本独特的性质逐渐消失，实际上，从很大程度上看,这就是北边十部落消失的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So, we do this here for the photoelectric effect, and in terms of the photoelectric effect, what we know the important point is that the incoming photon has to be equal or greater in energy then the work function of the metal.

所以，我们做这个是为了说明，光电效应，在光电效应方面，我们知道的最重要的事情,就是入射的光子能量必须等于,或者大于金属的功函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The problem is you've got to make hundreds of millions of doses sometimes in order to have an effect on progress of the disease.

问题是有时候你不得不去制造几亿支疫苗,以便在疾病进展时发挥作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A more recent side effect of Ambien that's quite serious is some people become--have the compulsion while they're sleeping to go driving, which is not good.

最近发现安必恩一个挺严重的副作用,有些人睡觉时,会有梦游驾车的冲动，这可不是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

When Plato writes his Republic and devotes Book Ten, as I'm sure most of you know, to an argument in effect banishing the poets from the ideal republic, part of the argument is that poets are terrible imitators.

当柏拉图写《理想国》和《第十卷》的时候，你们肯定都听过这两部著作，他提出了一个一个论点，要把诗人从理想国中驱逐出境，他提到，诗人都是拙劣的仿造者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The more salient you make the cause of the arousal, the less likely you'll get the effect but you can see even in experiments where the cause of the arousal is somewhat obvious, at least to us, you can still get a misattribution effect.

我们越突现觉醒原因，越不可能获得那个效果,但是，你看到，在实验中,有时性觉醒的原因显而易见，至少对于我们而言，能发现时错觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

More generally, Chomsky suggests that the law of effect when applied to humans is either trivially true, trivially or uninterestingly true, or scientifically robust and obviously false.

更一般的来讲，乔姆斯基认为应用在人类身上的效果律,要么是无效且毫无意义的正确假说，要么就是稳定且明显的错误假说。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, we quickly talked about certain aspects of why we like other people including proximity, similarity, and attractiveness, and where we left off was a discussion of the Matthew effect, which is basically that good things tend to compound.

我们昨天略为讲几个方面,解释我们为什么会喜欢他人,包括邻近性，相似性和吸引力，我们昨天最后讲的是马太效应，它是说，好事是会扎堆的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So this is not even thinking about the other electron shielding, just if we think of the fact, all we need to think about is that the effect of going to a further away n n as we go down the table.

到现在我们甚至还没有考虑,其它电子的屏蔽效果，即使我们要考虑这个因素，我们需要考虑也就是,沿着周期表的某一列往下走，距离会逐渐变远,将起最重要的作用，actually，dominates,这一结果所产生的影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选