Ryan's story is all too familiar. According to government estimates, of the more than 30,000 U.S.highway deaths reported in 2008, about 12 percent involved drivers between the ages of 15 and 20.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The poet Wallace Stevens puts it beautifully when he says that poetry should make the visible a little hard to see; in other words it should be a defamiliarizing of that which has become too familiar.

诗人华莱士，史蒂文斯在解释这点时说得很漂亮,他说，诗应给能见之物涂上一点朦胧的色彩，换句话说,诗应将熟悉的事物陌生化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

These are mechanisms that can be described not too differently from mechanisms that you're familiar with for maintaining homeostasis.

这些过程说起来,与你们熟悉的环境稳定机制,并无太大不同

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Patricia's story is all too familiar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Revenues minus costs makes profits, and again, for those of you who are less familiar with economics, I'm hoping this is not really too hard but you can read up on it.

收入减去成本就是利润,对经济学不太了解的同学,我觉得这个很简单,你们都能听懂吧

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Maybe it's a tradition, maybe it's to keep the value kind of in a familiar range or a small-- they don't want them to get too expensive because people can't-- small investors can't afford them anymore.

也许是传统使然,也许是为了将价值维持在一个惯常的小区间内,他们不想让价格升得太高,因为人们,小投资者无法承担过高价格

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What I'm going to do is focus on a couple basic things that turn out to be really important for general applications, and then I'll talk not in too much detail about a few applications of DNA that you're probably familiar with to try to give you a framework to hang this on.

我要重点讲一些基础知识,这些知识在一般应用中十分重要,然后我会简略的讲讲,关于DNA的一些应用,你们可能已经比较熟悉了,我只是试着给你们打一个框架

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选