It made the ice thin. If he stepped there, he might break through the ice into a pool of water.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.

这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里，谁会被淹死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You see you cannot tell the height or the depth rather of a pool based on the average.

只知道平均值,并不知道游泳池的水深。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

Remember when Haze and Enoch are in the middle of the park at the swimming pool. Enoch's hiding in the bushes, spying on the women.

请记住，当海斯和阿纳克在公园中,的游泳池中，阿纳克多在灌木丛中，盯着那些女人们。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And a pool of blood flowed from the horribly torn throat.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

Risk pooling means they put a lot of people with independent or low-correlated risk into a pool and reduce the risk for the whole pool.

风险汇聚即,将独立或相关性小的风险汇聚起来,以降低整体风险

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"The implications are obvious. The developing world has,by far, the largest pool of people at risk for severe and fatal H1N1 infections."

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

This pool, twelve very large studies, if you put all the number of subjects in those studies together, it would come up to a million and a half people.

这项研究汇总了十二个大型研究,如果把所有研究的受测者数量加起来,将有一百五十万之多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Here's one climbing out of the pool: First her face appeared, long and cadaverous, with a bandage-like bathing cap coming down almost to her eyes, and sharp teeth protruding from her mouth.

有一个女人从游泳池中出来了，首先是她的脸，修长,而惨白，如绷带般的泳帽从她的头部,耷拉到她的眼睛，锋利的牙齿从她的口中突出。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's funny a little bit. It's a picturesque comparison, hair and gravy, 0 but it emphasizes that ugliness. Now, if you look on page 80 , this is a woman climbing out of the swimming pool.

这的确挺好玩儿的，这是一个生动的对比，头发和肉汁，小说着重强调了丑陋，现在，如果你把书翻到第80页0,我的书是84页，这是一个刚才游泳池中爬出的女人的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Those people would bank their calories, survive the next famine, contribute to the gene pool, and thereby create what we have today which are organisms, humans, who very much like the kind of diets that are creating problems.

这些人储存能量以保证,在下一次饥荒时得以幸存,使他们的基因保留在了基因库中,从而造就今天的生物体,即人类,人类非常喜欢这类饮食,从而引发了很多问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选