"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

All right. So you can already begin to see a development in intellectual history that perhaps opens the way to a certain skepticism.

好，所以大家已经开始看到,人类思想史的一个发展,它很可能为某种怀疑主义开辟了道路。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you ask a New Yorker for how to get to a certain subway stop or whatever,

如果你询问一个纽约人怎么去某个地铁站或者别的地方。

生存英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The man in the soft felt hat, kneeling by the reclining woman and supporting her with an arm wrapped around her shoulders bears a striking resemblance to a certain fictional archaeologist.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

And I get down to a certain card and I am stumped, so I will leave a space waiting for that card to appear on cue.

我遇到某张牌,会被困住，我会留些地方给,恰好要出现的牌。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They have had their genes changed to contain a special characteristic, like resistance to certain insects.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Researchers found that those with a short version of a certain gene were more likely to get depressed after a sad or difficult experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

This is a simile that Stanley Fish brilliantly describes ; as central to a certain temporal procedure common in Milton's verse; Fish is interested in the temporal process of reading in general.

这被斯坦利费什独具匠心地形容为,弥尔顿诗中极为常见的时间步骤的核心;,费什对总体上这首诗的时间顺序非常感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

A lot of families seem to be actually paying this money to a certain university,

许多家庭好像都在以这种形式向某所大学捐钱，

不平等的赞助入学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"And what happens is we have mazes and the children are able to organize the robots and see if they can get them through the maze within a certain time period."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

So a reversible process leads to requiring certain quantities to be maximized.

因此可逆过程要求,一些物理量要达到最大值。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"Our health and wellness committee provided us with pedometers and there was a contest to see how many people could log ten thousand or more steps each day over a certain period.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

Now, recruiting is tremendously important because you need to have a certain number of settlers to make the settlement viable.

招募是极其重要的,因为你需要有一定数量的移民,来维持居住地的运转

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

An insurance company has reserves and it has enough reserves to cover them for a certain number of accidents.

保险公司一般都有准备金,准备金的数量一般保持在,刚刚够赔偿一定数量的保单

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are two major traits among these GE crops: resistance to certain insect pests, and resistance to a weed-killer called glyphosate.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

He was drawn in a bit to certain kinds of Southern charm.

在一定程度上他被南方的某些魅力所吸引

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Jarraud notes farmers in certain parts of the world will have to adapt to a dryer climate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

The body cannot adapt to a diet that has certain properties.

身体不能适应这样的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It would be embarrassing,I think," . "I would be objecting to that because at a certain point security begins to get into your personal life,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

So, the only point of interest about this is that when do people start thinking that they're French, as opposed to from a certain family, from a certain village, from a certain region?

所以对这些感兴趣的唯一目的就是,什么时候大家开始觉得自己是法国人了,相对于某个家族,某个村子,某个地区

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

While Iraq still has a long way to go before it reaches stability, there is a certain sense of satisfaction in how the elections were conducted.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

It is a kind of fiery love of fame, love of distinction that leads men and women of a certain type to pursue their ambitions in public life, in the public space.

那是一种对名声的热爱，对卓越的热爱,引领特定男女,去追求他们在公共人生，公共场域中的抱负。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They are not allowed to smoke within a certain distance of those buildings.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

All right. So suppose that I woke up this morning, that is to say, at a certain point I look around my room and I see the familiar sights of my darkened bedroom.

假定我早上醒来,也就是说,我在某个位置上,环顾房间四周,看到了昏暗的卧室里熟悉的场景

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In an interview via Skype, Tom Perls said the same technique used to predict long life may also be used to predict whether a person might eventually develop certain diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

It's--He had a certain aggression to him.

这里他表现出了一定的攻击性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, I guess in the first case where you have the one worker and the five, it's a choice between those two and you have to make a certain choice and people are going to die because of the trolley car, not necessarily because of your direct actions.

我认为，在第一种情况中是撞死一个还是五个，你只能在这两者中选择,不管你做出的是哪一个选择,总得有人被电车撞死，而他们的死，并非你的直接行为导致。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选