"A lot of people have health insurance, and yet they believe that the system has all kinds of problems and they would like to see major reform happen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

When we have an isolated system, the criterion that determineswhether something happens spontaneously is the entropy has to increase.

对于孤立系统,决定一个过程是否自发发生的判据为：,熵必须增加。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Sure, voter turnout has been dropping, and it might appear that voters are apathetic about the political system.

是啊，现在参与投票的人越来越少，看起来投票人对政治体系相当冷漠。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

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

The head of the Lemuelson-MIT Award program says Doctor Selanikio's work has saved lives and strengthened the global public health system.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

I will say that Milgrom has also argued that the dietary laws of Leviticus are similarly part of a symbol system that emphasizes life over death.

米尔格罗姆认为,饮食教规和一个象征系统是相似的,那个系统强调生存是超越死亡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.

在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Recently he has offered the system for one hundred nineteen dollars, plus shipping and handling charges, at goatfinder.com.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Every advanced country in the world has a system that provides for this, including the United States, incidentally.

世界上每一个发达国家,顺便一提，包括美国在内，都有应对这些情况的制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A recent report shows that the small organ has a much more important job in the body's defense system than once believed.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

President Obama has signed legislation to make the biggest changes in the health care system in forty-five years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

It only helps them to bring down the cost of health care, government has to operate the system more efficiently than the market does.

它只能,降低医疗的费用，政府必须,比市场更加有效地运作。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But Congress has put more into the budget of the national park system in the past three years.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The renal system has an equally important function in that way, in maintaining your water balance.

泌尿系统也同样十分重要,它能够维持体内的水平衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The W.H.O.has an influenza warning system in which phase six means that a pandemic is taking place.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The two analogies we use " was strengthening our immune system or stronger "psychological engine" that has the capacity to endure more not just from the negative to zero, but also from the zero to the positive.

我们使用的两个类比,是加强我们的免役系统或加强“心理引擎“,获得更强大的忍受能力,不只是从负到零，还要从零到正。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Syria has long had a single-party system led by the Ba'ath party of the Assad family.

VOA: special.2011.08.06

For the first time, the philosophy department has just switched over to the online discussion section registration system.

哲学部门，第一次被替换,成为在线讨论注册系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

NASA says Kepler-11 has the fullest, most compact planetary system yet discovered beyond our own.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

President Obama still has to decide the future of a Bush administration plan to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Only the operating system has controlling of byte zero NULL in the computer's RAM and so if a function ever returns null, aka zero, well, something must have gone wrong because that can't possibly belong to me that memory because by human convention zero is owned by the operating system; not by a program I wrote.

只用操作系统在内存中能够控制,字节0，并且如果一个函数返回，或者说0，好的，可能出错了,因为那可能是不属于我的内存,因为惯例上，0是由操作系统拥有的,而不是由我的程序拥有的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The president said the federal government has already reformed the student loan system and increased tax credits for families struggling to pay college education costs.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But if the system is in equilibrium, none of those states has lower enthalpy.

但是如果系统处于平衡态，所有其他的态都不可能具有更低的自由焓。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

A system of waterways designed after the Italian city of Venice has been built there.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

It has to be complex, because we're asking the immune system to be able to respond to every potential foreign pathogen that we come into contact with.

免疫系统是十分复杂的,因为我们需要免疫系统,能够对我们身体接触到的,任何潜在的外来病原体进行反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Banks still are vulnerable to bank runs because they still have deposits so the system is still vulnerable and therefore the Federal Reserve has a set of reserve requirements.

银行仍然对银行挤兑敏感,因为它们仍然有存款,所以这个系统还是比较脆弱的，因此,联邦储备金有一系列的法定准备金率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选