I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"

我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

so that's great that a lot of people have enough time to be in something that's not math or science related.

很多人投入了时间，来做与数学或科学无关的事情，这真的太好了。

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Just be careful not to let the cat out of the bag, or someone may leave you holding the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Another is the admonition not to throw your pearls before swine, not to preach to those who can't hear, or won't be perceptive.

第二个是一句警句：,不要在猪的面前乱扔你的珍珠，不要对那些失聪者，和不可感化者布道。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

If you have a Text-to-Speech Reader, and it comes across a website that has graphics Most likely it`s not gonna be or would like to read the graphics.

当你使用文字阅读器，遇到网页中的图片时,很可能阅读器,没办法读出图片来。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Or to put the point more properly, ? which one do you want to not to be tortured?

或者说的更明白一点，你们希望保护哪个？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe even lots of snow. If you do not have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Astronomers could not tell exactly where the moon would be from one night or day to the next.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Absolute or apodictic law, by contrast, is an unconditional statement of a prohibition or a command. It tends to be general and somewhat undifferentiated. You shall not murder. You shall love the lord your God.

具体了，相反的，绝对法是对一种禁令或命令的,无条件陈述，它往往都很笼统甚至是,无差别的，你不应该杀人，你应该爱你的主你的上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

nd this convergence can never be precisely pinpointed, but must always remain virtual, as is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader."

而我们永远无法指出，“…,这种会合的确切位置，这个空间会一直以虚拟形式存在,不论是客观的文本,还是带有个人特征的读者都无法辨别它“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If this attempt is not opposed, no effort will be made to throw in men,arms or ammunition."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

At the same time, he fears that being a poet means -and this is a fear that literate young men and women have to this very day -- to be a poet means in some way not to be acting responsibly or politically.

与此同时，他也担忧成为一个诗人意味着,这是直到今天文青和文艺女青们共有的一种担忧,成为一个诗人某种意义上,意味着不能负责地践行政治行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Tanya Pinto says you do not have to be wealthy or well known to help others.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

A "Subprime borrower" Is somebody who has a poor credit history or some other indication that would suggest that they might not be able to repay the mortgage-- they might default.

次级借款人"指的是,那些信用记录较差的借款人,或在其他方面显示,他们很可能无力偿还贷款,也就是说他们很可能违约

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Or all the fruits and vegetables that could also not be flown to Europe.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Controversial in the sense that maybe it's not a good thing to do, or there might be some limits on what we want to do there in terms of integrating machines with people's brains.

它的争议性在于这可能并不是一件好事,在我们想往人脑中植入机械时,会不会受到某种限制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

To hear an oriole sing May be a common thing Or only a divine It is not the bird Who sings the same unheard, As unto crowd.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And I also want to point out, it's guaranteed pretty much you may or may not be able to see, sometimes it's hard to see that one that's getting near the UV end of our visible spectrum. So we won't worry if we can't see that.

我要指出的是，我可以保证你们,但你们可能会看不到，有时候很难看到,这个可见光谱边缘接近紫外光地方的这根谱线,所以看不到也不用担心。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They might not be able to read, or they simply have no access.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

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

They might not be able to stay seated or play quietly.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

But what I really have to teach is not going to be based on what you might read in textbook or a great work of technical film studies, you gonna write paper about that, but what to do to get most of the meanings you have to read these books.

但我真正想教授的,并不基于你们可能在教材读到的东西,也不基于很多技术性的电影研究,你们将对此写论文，但是你们必须读这些书,才能更好的理解书中的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

when you want someone to, not to do something that's going to be harmful or uncomfortable or strange.

或者你不希望某人做一些有害的，令人不安的或是奇怪的行为。

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