Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the problems they describe are not new.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

That's how he often writes about human behavior, that we obey the same laws of physical attraction as do any other bodies that we might choose to describe. They describe how bodies in motion always and necessarily behave, these laws of nature.

这是他经常说的人类行为，我们遵守同样的物质吸引的法则,其他人也一样,他们描述运动中的身体,经常而且肯定会，体现出自然法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I guess it is a way to describe it of the pyramids in Egypt, so they had a lot of ancient Egyptian artifacts.

我猜是用这个方式表现埃及金字塔，所以他们有了那么多古埃及的展品。

大都会艺术博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So the state variables describe the equilibrium's state and they don't care about how this state got to where it is.

状态变量,描述平衡态，它们并不关心,系统是如何演化成这样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They describe their grueling hours in poor, makeshift facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

You simply want to describe things the way they are and then dynamics tells you how they changed and why they changed.

你只是单纯描述物体的实际状态,而动力学则是解释它们运动的方式和原因的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The students were also asked to choose five words they might use to describe another object: a table.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Well, if you ask somebody who doesn't like Freud what he said, they'll describe some of the stupider things he said and, in fact, Freud said a lot of things, some of which were not very rational.

如果你去询问某个厌恶弗洛伊德言论的人，他们定会告诉你一些弗洛伊德说过的蠢话,而事实上，弗洛伊德发表过很多言论，只是其中的部分言论不太合理而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some expressions describe people who are important, or who at least think they are.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

What they want to do is expand the actions of the Fed, so that they're not--you can describe the Federal Reserve or any central bank, traditionally, as a banker's bank the Bank of England was the first central bank and it made banks keep deposits at the Bank of England.

他们想做的是扩大政府对经济的调控范围，这样政府就能将联邦储蓄,或者其他中央银行变成银行的银行,英国银行是第一个中央银行,他使其他银行将钱存放在它这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you buy them popcorn, they'll describe things for you."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

How do those stock phrases alienate you from the very experience you hope that they can describe?

那些陈腔旧调会怎样使,和你期望描述的体验渐行渐远？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As officials describe it, they lost him for a time.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"That's simply not good enough." "They need to start using words that describe these things and what they've done about it."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

They do seem to describe very different worlds.

它们的确是在描绘不同的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Astronauts who are accustomed to views that you and I cannot really describe were moved to tears when they looked out the windows of the cupola for the first time tonight."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We hope to receive entries that describe how specific innovations have improved the lives of women and girls,and proposals for how they can be scaled up and applied more broadly."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

So, if you imagine this is growing up as the polis comes into being, let me describe what a hoplite was like and then try to describe what the phalanx was like and how they operated and what are some of the consequences of their coming into being.

假设该战术是随城邦的形成而发展起来的,那就让我来描述一下,重装步兵的组成,方阵的组成及其运作方式,包括该战术发展起来之后所产生的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选