The Kyrgyz often say their country has the potential to become the Switzerland of Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Everyone, according to the logic ofAreopagitica everyone has the potential to assume the inner authority of conscience and self-discipline.

按照《论出版自由》的逻辑，每个人都有,用内在良心的统治和自律的潜力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think that if we don't address it, it has the potential to have very, very serious effects

我觉得如果我们不解决的话，可能有非常非常严重的后果

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In a statement on Monday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is pleased that the Senate has decided to include a public option, and that he supports it because it has the potential to hold insurance companies accountable through choice and competition.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

This stem cell which is reproduced still has the potential to undergo asymmetric division but this one does not.

新生成的干细胞,仍然有潜能进行不对称分裂,但定向祖细胞就不行

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I loved the compassion. I think our society is so focused on being quick these days that we don't really take the time to show that compassion that she showed to him in the movie, and really take the time to really build and lift someone else up when you see potential."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Somebody? What's the key thing? It must have the potential to refute the hypothesis.

有人知道么？关键点在哪儿？,实验必须有反驳我们假设的可能。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And crucially, these drugs do not seem to have the same potential to become addictive, the way narcotics do.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

And then the potential energy, the energy is stored here due to the coulombic force of attraction between the electron and the nucleus.

然后说势能,位能其实就是,由电子和原子核之间的库仑引力而形成的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"The number one area we need to focus on, the biggest potential vulnerability, is a bomb on the body,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

We said, "Okay, what's the real potential of this business, and how are we going to draw that out?"

我们说，好，我们公司的,真正潜力是什么，我们又该如何充分发挥我们的潜力“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

In an earlier address to business leaders in Pretoria, Mrs Clinton says that there is great untapped potential on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

That is, you minimize potential energy and you see things falling under the force of gravity and so forthgoing to potential energy minima in conformance with this result.

换句话说，你使得势能最小化,然后发现我们关注的东西,在重力或者其他力的作用下下落,直到势能最小的地方,这和我们刚才的结果是一致的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

U.S.officials say the system is needed to defend Europe and the United States against potential threats from countries such as Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

I think also what we're trying to build was not just this for America's sake, but I do think that we have the potential of offering an example, of how to do this well.

我还认为我们正在努力建造的,不只是为了美国，我真的认为我们有潜力,做好这件事，树立榜样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The hope is that by unburdening banks of these assets, they will increase lending to potential home buyers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

In class we'll have more data to present to you and we'll be eager to talk about some of the ways that people will be using the site and what the potential impact will be.

课堂上将会呈现更多的数据,我们渴望谈论,人们用这个网站的方法,以及潜在的影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

President Obama said the U.S.government must be able to act decisively when information surfaces about a potential threat.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

- But there's one potential gotcha here -- and this is where you have to be kind -- of piecing together the little clues along the way -- what have I done that's interesting here that had I not, I would have had a mathematical error?

但是这里有一个可能性-,这就是你需要把,一些线索拼凑在一起-,我这里所做的是很有趣的，如果我不这样做，我可能已经犯了个数学错误？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He urges potential informants not to underestimate the importance of any piece of information they can gather.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

So essentially, they regulate this action potential, and they do so by helping to establish and then control the voltage gradient within the cells.

总之本质上，它们负责调节动作电位,它们做到这一点通过协助制造,并控制细胞内的电位梯度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That hasn't stopped dreamers, like Italian scholar Marco Vigano, from looking past the obstacles to the potential.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

You could not sell a security without giving a prospectus to the potential buyers and the prospectus would be something approved by the SEC.

没有招股说明书就不可以,出售证券给潜在买家,而且招股书需要通过证交会审核

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Researchers in Melbourne hope to isolate the most effective compounds for use in a potential vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

So the main business of government consists in knowing how to control the elites because they are always a potential source of conflict and ambition.

因此统治的第一要务在于,懂得如何控制精英人物因为,他们往往是冲突和野心的潜在来源。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That flexibility opens the door to potential new applications, such as what Atwater calls "integrated photovoltaics."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Also unbeknownst to the teachers was these students names, who were deemed "the fast spurters"/"high potential students", were literally randomly picked out from a hat.

老师们也不知道这些所谓的，“快速迸发者“或者潜力巨大的学生，都是从一个帽子抓阄抓出来的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选