In his first observations from Mount Wilson, Hubble used a telescope with a mirror one hundred fifty-two centimeters across.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Alexander took this tendency of syncretism, of mixing together different religious traditions from different places, and he used it as a self-conscious propaganda technique.

于是亚历山大利用宗教融合，即把不同地区的不同宗教传统融合，作为有意为之的宣传工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In fact, I used to go to church in Harlem. And it was... We would walk to and from church.

事实上，我过去经常去哈莱姆的教堂。它……我们会从家里步行到教堂，然后再从教堂步行回家。

哈莱姆很独特 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said these men would be used to get control of forts and other federal property seized from the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So generally and those of you coming from high school computer science background probably used An Integrated Development Environment which actually is a gooey with menus and icons and such.

对于你们这些,有着高中电脑知识背景的同学可能一般用,即“集成开发环境“,它有一些菜单，图标等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Another reason I wanted to point this out in terms of the polar coordinates that we're using, is I think they're actually flipped from what you're used to seeing in physics.

另一个我想指出,我们采用极坐标的原因是，我认为它们实际上是,从你们习惯于看到的物理学中出来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

I won't unpack them all for you now but every one of those details comes from some interpretation of a particular Greek term that Christians used.

现在无法一一破解给你们听,但是所有这些细节都来自,基督教徒所使用的希腊语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Doctor Ruhli says researchers used this method to study changes in the tuberculosis bacteria from two thousand year-old mummified tissue.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

It's a switch that from outside can be used to change the life of a cell.

这种来自外源的变化能够改变细胞的状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts of a situation is called a red herring.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

Well, there's a formula that's been used by bond traders for hundreds of years and it's a traditional expression, which goes from the discount rate to the price.

这里有个债券交易商,用了上百年的公式,这是个传统表达式,它能用折扣率算得价格

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So far,their findings have included pieces of a brick that could be from building materials used in colonial times.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

And I don't know, I used to love to quote from it but then I began to realize I'm only quoting that because it's about a guy's eye being gouged out.

我以前讲课很喜欢从中引用,后来我意识到我引用它只是因为,它写的是一个人的眼珠被刨出来而已

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Because he used head-craft, instead of witchcraft, he rose from the poorest igloo to be the chief in the village.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

Shigeru We will be doing it as we travel with Shigeru through different points going to the train station or from the train station on the bus, looking to see how it was the same as it used to or how it's different from what they know.

我们会跟随着,在来往火车站的旅途中,从不同角度，体验七夕节,同以往相比的异同。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He says the group used a million-and-a-half-dollar donation from the Nike Foundation to expand the program to cricket players in India.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

The Greeks are in touch with them again and they borrow styles, copy styles, maybe in the early day they used some of the craftsmen from out there or maybe their own craftsmen picked it up.

希腊人又一次与他们接触了,借鉴并复制了他们的风格,也许在早期他们雇佣一些那些地方的工匠,或者让他们自己的工匠学习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

work is going from where it used to be 5 or 6 big companies in California, in San Francisco and LA.

过去的工作是由加州、旧金山和洛杉矶的五六个大公司来做，

经济危机和电影市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This term is used especially for plants like herbs that produce new growth year after year from the same root structure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

There's also a distant psychological relationship with it because we just aren't as concerned as people used to be about where it came from.

心理上的感觉也变得疏远,我们不像以前的人那样,关心食品源自何方

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The ancient Egyptians used a drawing of the eye of Horus as a magic sign to protect themselves from disease,suffering and evil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And this is from Damasio's excellent book Descartes' Error: He used to be a really responsible guy, a family man, very reliable, very trustworthy.

在达马西奥的杰作，笛卡尔的错误：,他曾是负责任的家伙，一个居家男人，非常可靠，值得信赖。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He stood farther away from the pitcher than most players, and used a heavier bat than most players.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The trouble with the etymology of theory and the way in which the word has been used traditionally is that sometimes it actually means practice, and then at other historical periods it means something very different from practice, something typically from which practice is derived.

理论这个词在词源,和传统的使用方法上的复杂之处在于,它有时候指的是实践，但在特定的历史时期,它指的是和实践非常不同的东西，也就是实践产生的依据。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So the fires to make containers from volcanic clay must be hotter than those used for non-volcanic clay.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

There was... All the pros used to go there from San Francisco and all over the world.

曾经……很多滑板人都去那里，不管来自是旧金山的还是其他地区的滑板人。

滑板的故乡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You guys are engineers. You are used to come to the office 10 am in the morning. No. Starting from today, you need to come 9 am in the morning and have a meeting with me."

作为工程师，你们习惯了,早上十点到办公室，但是从明天开始，早上九点你们就得到公司，然后开会“

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选