Workers in Wisconsin, and now some other states, have been protesting efforts to limit the negotiating power of government employees.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

God saw that he had to limit the life span of humans, or risk creating an enemy that was nearly equal to him.

上帝发现他限制了人类的寿命，否则就是冒险创造了与他平等的死敌。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and just pushing myself to the limit, you know like,

挑战自己的极限，嗯，就像，

保持身材的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The company can organize online publicity campaigns to try to limit the harm done by negative comments or bad news.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

You have to make every single detail perfect and you have to limit the number of details.

就是让每个细节都很完美,你必须要限制细节的数量。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

We have talked a lot about salt. Keep in mind that doctors advise people to limit the sodium in their diet.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.

在创作的时候，作者会给文章加上个限制，他最后会给出一个象征意义来结束写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

President Obama is proposing rules to limit the size of banks and the risks they can take.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

I think it was because people were overselling investments and saying, there's no limit to this investment but the blue sky above.

我想这是因为,当时人们过度宣传投资产品,并宣称,投资收益无止境,如头顶的蓝天那么遥远

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He won an agreement to limit the number of Chinese who could enter the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The question is there a limit to the kind of calculator I don't care. You can bring a mainframe in on a truck.

问题是对计算器的种类有没有限制,我不在乎，你们可以用大卡车带个主机来。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Still,she says the price of robotic milking systems will continue to limit their use.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

That limit will be some arrow we can call the velocity at the time and it will always be tangent to the curve.

那个极限也就是一个矢量,我们称之为瞬时速度,并且它总是和轨迹相切的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They passed laws to limit the cost of railroad transportation and crop storage.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

As always with philosophy, there's more complicated versions of dualism where maybe the interaction doesn't work both ways, but let's just limit ourselves to good, old-fashioned, two-way interactionist dualism.

但由于我们在说的是哲学,二元论还持有更为复杂的观点,例如,交互作用对双方都不起作用,但就让我们限制在一个范围内较好,保守的,双向互动二元论观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The doctor also says researchers could be able to limit the number of cells that can form tumors if they limit the number of normal stem cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

There is no reference, in any of the tablets-- I don't know how much we can make of that because the tablets limit themselves to such limited kinds of things that maybe it doesn't prove anything, but in this case, I think it does.

在所有陶土碎片的文字中都没有注释,我不知道我们能够理解多少,况且陶土碎片可供记录的空间有限,也许它们不能证明任何东西,但在这里,我想至少可以证明一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Before the summit began there was considerable public debate over bonuses paid to bankers, and efforts to limit them.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Right now we told you Joule did all these experiments and he found out that for an ideal gas, that the limit in and ideal gas 0 case was that the eta J was equal to zero.

现在我告诉你们焦耳,做了所有这些实验,他发现对于理想气体,在极限情况下理想气体的ηJ等于。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Her comments in Jerusalem Saturday praising Israel's offer to limit the expansion of Jewish settlements were widely criticized in the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mexico received global praise for its handling of the situation, and the United States and Mexico cooperated closely to limit the spread of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Are there things that the existence of a soul could explain and explain better than the explanation that we would have if we had to limit ourselves to bodies?

是否有某种现象,使得用灵魂存在的假设,能比局限于肉体本身的分析,解释得更好呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The senior official who spoke here noted that the convicted terrorist has not left his home since arriving there, and credited Libyan authorities with acting to limit the size of the airport crowd.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

So I think it's pretty clear when Socrates starts talking about what's visible versus what's invisible, he doesn't limit himself to vision, he means to be talking about all of the 5 senses.

所以我认为很清楚的是，苏格拉底,在谈论何为有形,何为无形的时候，并没有局限在看这一种感官上,他要谈的是所有的五种感官。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been in talks with AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy to limit the millions of dollars worth of bonuses promised to employees, including some who worked in the financial product unit responsible for bringing the company to the brink of collapse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

We know there is no thing called a massless rope, but most ropes have a mass, but maybe negligible compared to the two blocks you are pulling, so we'll take the idealized limit where the mass of the rope is 0.

我们都知道无质量的绳子是不存在的,是绳子就有质量,但是相比于这两个物体就可以忽略不计了,所以我们有了这个理想的条件,即绳子的质量都是 0

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And without a vaccine, Dr.Fauci says the best methods of prevention are these: encourage people to limit the numbers of sexual partners encourage men to use condoms train more doctors to perform adult male circumcision empower women to choose their sex partners and protect themselves from getting the virus that causes AIDS All of these goals still remain major challenges.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

Saving and Loan Associations, by the way, no longer exclusively limit themselves to mortgage lending -either they do home improvement lending and auto loans and the like as well.

顺便提一下,储贷协会,现在也不仅限于发放抵押贷款,他们也发放住房装修贷款,及汽车消费贷款之类的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You have to limit your exposure to risky asset classes to a level that allows you to sustain those positions even in the face of terribly adverse market conditions.

你必须把手中持有的风险资产,限制在一个合适的比例水平,并且即使到了最差的市场环境下,你依旧能够承受这些风险资产

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选