It was thought that only humans did this and that this set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The other aspect of this that I really appreciate is the fact that the experiments are done in the context of the lectures.

另一方面,也是我非常喜欢的一点,就是这些实验是,在讲座的背景下进行的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

in trying to do this that you can't, because you're short.

你无法当模特，因为你不够高。

If I were 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

W.H.O.special adviser Keiji Fukuda reported earlier this month that the virus has acted in some ways like seasonal flu.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.

当读到这一段的时候，你能感觉到其中的讽刺意味,尽管该隐的回答是一个设问句,“难道我是他的看守吗？“，事实上，指钱的话，他说的是对的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But you always remember that she had this incredible freedom that most children don't have and she was so smart."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

In particular, we're going to look at a particular version of this that we're going to call the linear city model.

我们来从一个特殊的角度看一下,我们称之为线性城市模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"nurturing" and "affectionate." The researchers say this shows that "gender stereotypes" have influenced the opinions of the players about women.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

So there already are some approaches like this that are working, but there's more that needs to be done.

现在我们已经有相关的治疗方法,但还有很多地方需要改进

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This means that the release of sugar into the bloodstream is slower after eating brown rice compared to white rice.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The real issue is to figure out how to build constructs out of this that tackle particular problems, but the fundamental basics of computation are just captured in that set of mechanisms.

坏消息是当然这不是真的,真正的问题是怎么来,构建解决特定的问题的这些结构，但是运算的最基本的东西,仅仅体现在机制集里。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But it was also during this period that Hollywood and the American film industry became much more skilled and influential.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And it said this week that final results will likely show two thousand nine was the fifth-warmest year on record.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

I don't want to spend the whole weekend implementing just a little pop up calendar and frankly it probably would take at least that long to get something that's as interactive and dynamic as something like this that works across all browsers and so forth.

我并不想花费整个周末的时间来实现,这样一个小的弹出式日历，而且,可能至少还要花那么多时间，从而使它,能够在所有浏览器上都能有良好的交互性并且是,动态的，等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Officials reported this week that the gross domestic product grew nine-tenths of one percent between April and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

But we studied what other companies were doing and said, "Okay, let's come up with the Dell process for doing this that's going to be right for our culture, right for our business and that we can execute."

而是研究其他公司的运行方式，然后说，好，我们要建立起戴尔自己的模式,以适应自己的文化，自己的业务，并能完全为自己所掌握“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The first, approach is this that we considered was the soul theory of personal identity, the key to being the same person is having the same soul.

首先，我们设置的前提是,人格同一性的灵魂存在论，成为同一个人的关键在于,拥有同样的灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The University of Virginia professor even thought that this warming was so great that it helped the earth avoid another ice age.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

It's just this kind of rhetorical trick that Milton uses - so many rhetorical tricks like this that Milton will use throughout the poem -- that led Dr. Johnson to say in utter exasperation, but admiration, that "Milton wrote no language": this isn't English that Milton is writing here.

正是弥尔顿使用的这种修辞手法,-弥尔顿全诗使用了大量这样的修辞手法,-让约翰逊博士懊恼而又钦佩的说，“弥尔顿所写不是语言“,弥尔顿这里写的不是英语。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that this was,in her words, "not an appropriate time to consider" the loan.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Then you'll get a page that looks like this that will talk about-- given that you've had that particular food how many additional calories you have for the day, given an average person, and it gives you the breakdown of what you've eaten so far.

之后你会看到一个类似这样的页面,根据你的某种食物摄入量,根据一般人的情况,告诉你当天额外摄入了多少卡路里,它会给出当前所有的统计数据

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This means that you can rise above your problems if you have a goal and work very hard.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

So, we actually didn't really know this that couldn't file their financial statements on time.

所以，实际上我们知道这件事情直到,它没有能够及时发布财务报表。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Professor Ervin says this means that some farmers are again using the more toxic herbicides to control weeds.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Now the part of the essay just prior to this explains that he gave this little quiz that you see to some college students when he was giving a lecture.

在先前已经解释了这篇文章的一部分,他把你们所看到这个小测试在他的讲座上,给一些大学生做了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

President Obama said this week that he is not interested in "militarizing" the three thousand kilometer long border.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

they won't say, "Oh, because of this experiment, that experiment, " this data set and that data set."

他们不会说，“因为理论得到了这个实验，那个实验，这套数据，那套数据的支持“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And what can happen is that this cartoon shows that if you put a magnetic field on liquid oxygen, that liquid oxygen would be drawn towards the magnetic field.

能够发生的就是,在动画里有所体现,如果你把液氧放在磁场中，液氧会被吸起来,朝着磁场的方向。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选