Some people might not have firm plans yet for New Year's Eve, but others know exactly what they will be doing.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The problems that Frost's poetry poses for us as readers are not problems of reference. They can't be solved by footnotes.

他的诗歌给我们的困难,不是参考的问题，它们不能就用脚注解决。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The fallen angels may be -- okay, they may be violating mother earth, not so great, but look what this violation produces.

这些堕落天使可能没有那么严重地侵略大地母亲，但是看看这侵略带来了什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is shown in the fact that the most popular baby names are not as popular as they used to be.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

They like to--when they're computing the investment yield, they want to be completely honest and not use any rules of thumb.

当他们计算投资收益率的时候,他们需要完全精确,而非用经验公式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

First,they said, he could not be guilty of treason against Virginia, because he was not a citizen of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

They are subject to every conceivable kind of illusion, not to be trusted, and Socrates calls them liars.

他们都屈从于一切骗人的假象，不可被信赖，而苏格拉底则直截了当得说他们都是骗子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This time, with the economy in a bad recession, some guests may not be as wealthy as they were.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Things in dreams were often not what they seemed to be but rather symbols for other things.

梦境中的事物往往并不像,它们看上去那样的简单,它们通常是其他事物的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If not,she says, they may be at increased risk for age-related broken bones years after their visits to space.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

These are all perfectly important topics, but they're not, as I say, topics that we're going to be talking about in this class.

这些都是十分重要的话题，但是，如我所讲，他们不是，我们在这堂课上要讨论的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And since they do not have enough money to hire people, the work will simply not be done."

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Students are really learners, they may not be the students in a formal sense.

学生就是学习者,他们可以不是正式的学生。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But she says they believe it would be a terrible mistake not to use these influential tools to contribute to the answers.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

We've identified many drugs that stimulate insulin receptors, for example, but they're not exactly insulin, and those can potentially be used as agonist type drugs.

我们已经设计了很多,能够激活胰岛素受体的药物,但它们都不是和胰岛素分毫不差的,但都可以用作激动剂类药物

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They want to be sure that he is not dealing off the bottom of the stack of cards.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But they do need to be careful not to wound themselves with chainsaws or other pruning tools.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

But the point was that they could be watched, that they're not going to-- they can chase each other's wives and mistresses around, and they can eat big drunken meals.

但重要的是他们可以监视这些贵族,以免有人会［谋反］,他们可以调戏或勾引别人的妻子或情妇,他们可以大摆筵席,不醉不归

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

She had a husband and a daughter, but they didn't seem to be important--not either of 'em.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

This is a problem when you consider that books in the days were not likely to be codices as they are today, but scrolls that took up quite a lot of space.

这里有点奇怪,因为考虑到那个时期的书本,和现在我们看到的抄本不同,是比较占地方的卷轴

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They tell children not to be influenced by other people, but to learn on their own what is right and what is wrong.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Now you can begin to see the kinds of errors that this method might produce because people forget, they can't remember exactly how much they ate of things, or they may not be willing to disclose everything they ate.

现在你就可以明白各种误差,是由人们的遗忘而产生的,他们无法准确记得吃了多少东西,他们不会透露所有自己吃的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Professor Klein says the employment differences were so small that they could not be considered significant.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Not only in terms of the economic decisions that they can be make, but also in terms of people are able to throw their ways around in way the constitutions never authorize them to do.

不仅仅限于,他们可能做出的经济决定，还在于,人们可以不按常理出牌,以宪法,不允许的方式做事情。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

In the final days before the vote, six of the seven remaining Republican senators let it be known that they would vote not guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

They are, to put it another way perhaps, not only potential rulers and potential philosophers, they may also be potential revolutionaries, and the remainder of the book is addressed to them and of course people like them.

他们，换个角度来看，也许不只是潜在的统治者与潜在的哲学家，还是潜在的革命者，本书往下,都是讲他们,及像他们那样的人物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So it's going to be-- it's like one of the reality shows where things are going to be as they are and hopefully after a while we'll learn to act and behave normally and not worry about its presence.

因此,这就像...,就像某种真人秀节目,你在节目里要假装和平常一样,但愿过一段时间以后,我们能表现得很自然,完全忽略那部摄像机的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So, for example, when people, and we'll talk about this next class, were looking at different characteristics spectra of different atoms, what they were seeing is that it appeared to be these very discreet lines that were allowed or not allowed for the different atoms to emit, but they had no way to explain this using classical physics.

举个例子，当大家看到,不同原子的特征光谱时,他们看到的是一些分离的线,那可以使不同的原子,发射或不发射出去，但是这些无法用经典物理来解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选