Officials said the competition was designed to expand the discussion of democracy around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The exact shape of the curve is subject to discussion, but the point of diminishing marginal utility is that, as you get more and more money, the increment in utility for each extra dollar diminishes.

这条曲线的确切形状还有待讨论,但是边际效用递减规律的重点在于,你得到的钱越多,每额外的一美元的增长效用会相对减小

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you are not prepared, then you will not be able to participate in our class discussion.

要是你没准备的话，你就不能参加课堂讨论。

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ArtBabble describes itself as a place where everyone is invited to join the discussion.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

You need to come to discussion sections having thought about the lectures, having done the readings, having thought about the questions that they raise, and you need to come to discussion section then prepared to discuss this week's set of issues.

你需要去参与讨论给出自己的想法，去读阅读材料，去想他们提出的问题，并且你需要去讨论,然后准备去讨论这个星期的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

So, one of the things that you can do is to become technically literate so you can become part of the discussion and help formulate sensible policy.

其中你能做的一个就是,成为技术达人,这样的话你就能够参与讨论,并且帮助制定可靠的政策。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Our discussion might cause you to change the way you feel about something.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

So now, now that we've got all three of the major laws of thermodynamics, what I want to start in on is a discussion of what happens spontaneously.

现在既然我们已经得到了,热力学的三个主要定理，我想现在开始讨论的是,什么过程会自发进行。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"But most of the people on Twitter that I see are actually trying to have a substantive discussion a real conversation about topics that are interesting to them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

If you go to look at congressional discussion of tax rates, you won't see risk management mentioned very often.

如果你看过国会有关税率的讨论，就会发现“风险管理“出现的频率并不高。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We would be having a heart to heart discussion.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Let me come off the stage a second, so I can encourage you to get involved in the discussion.

让我站下讲台一会,这样我可以鼓励大家都参与到讨论中来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But to give a taste of what one might be like, we assembled a few students for a seminar-style discussion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's an ongoing discussion about the best way to move the diplomatic process forward and that hasn't been fully resolved yet,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

I'd like to start with a little more discussion of Derrida before we turn to de Man.

首先我想再谈谈德里达,然后再讨论德曼。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of his bands,Big Star, was scheduled to reunite for a panel discussion at the conference, and a show on Saturday night.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Okay. Having said that and pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of notation let's plunge in then to a discussion of it.

好的,既然我们已经提到,并指出了记谱法的优势和劣势,那接下来我们就来对它进行一番讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The intent is to make sure that no one can discuss anything. The intent is to shout them down, to prevent intelligent discussion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

And of course you will come to your discussion sections in the same state of joyful preparedness.

当然你们也需要参与到讨论中来,并做好充分的课前准备。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Before returning to Washington, Secretary Clinton is to fly to Russia's ethnically diverse Republic of Tartarstan to hold a roundtable discussion on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

All right, so today we're going to fully have our discussion focused on multi-electron atoms.

好了，今天我们将要完整的讨论,关于多电子原子的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

More discussion has been generated by President Bashir's planned visit to Qatar at the end of the month to attend an Arab League summit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Okay, this week we're going to continue in our discussion about the immune system.

好,这一周我们将,继续讨论免疫系统

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

When Japanese lawmaker Kan Suzuki was elected to the Upper House eight years ago, he knew he wanted to take his political discussion to the Web.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

I want to try to sum up what we've learned from this discussion, but, first, let's thank John, Alex, and Julia for a really wonderful job.

我想总结一下从这场讨论中我们所学到的，不过首先谢谢约翰，亚历克斯，朱莉娅,谢谢他们的精彩表现。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The affects of climate change have been a major point of discussion for international firefighting experts gathered in Sydney to look at ways to fight bushfires.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now to the extent that this discussion is actually about the virginity of the Second Brother and the Elder Brother's sister, it seems, I think, to border on the ridiculous; but the debate, I think, we have to take seriously.

后来这兄弟俩谈论的对象,转到了自己的妹妹的贞洁的时候，就显得有点愚蠢了;,但我觉得这段辩论应当好好研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选