And robotic submarines are being used to try to stop the leak -- a process that could take weeks.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

He's used to being taken very seriously.

他习惯了严肃。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What do you think of donations being used to allow rich students to enter universities?

有一些捐款是用来帮助富裕的学生上大学的，你怎么看待这种现象？

不平等的赞助入学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Of course, it's being used in the movie just to support a criminal enterprise, not the founding of a city.

当然那仅是用在电影中,以支撑一桩犯罪活动，而非指创建一座城。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

By looking to see not just what genes you carry but what genes are being used at particular times in your life.

这样不仅能够知道自己带有什么基因,还能知道哪些基因,在人生哪个时期发挥作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

At any rate, you're not using them and they're going to end up being used by somebody else.

无论如何,你不可能都用到它们,所以它们最终会被送给别人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

What made things go so awry that people and food used to be more in sync in terms of health and well-being, although there were problems in some ways.

是什么让一切偏离正轨,尽管有些方面存在种种问题,过去人与食物的关系,就健康方面而言,要比现在更为和谐

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"About 85 percent of the average family income is now being used just to buy food to keep a family going."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

If we think about bringing in those last two carbons, what you can see is that for every carbon, two of its hybrid orbitals are being used to bond to other carbons.

如果我们考虑引入最后两个碳原子，你会看到的是对于每个碳原子，其中的两个杂化轨道,和另外的碳原子成键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But in certain landfills, including some accepting the BP cleanup, waste,heat and methane gas produced by decomposition are being used to generate energy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

So whenever you see "Lord" or "God" those are actually pointing to different words that are being used in the underlying Hebrew text.

所以，以后看到“lord“和“God“两词,在希伯来语中意思是不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The same means of communication that were used to speak out are being used by the government as a way of shutting down the opposition.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

He normally, you know, I can't really get used to him being serious, you know.

一般情况下，我真的不习惯他这么严肃。

英国电影的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

When our political opponent is being ironic about our views we understand the irony perfectly well. We're used to it, we have accommodated ourselves to it, and of course it's the same in reverse.

当政敌讽刺我们的观点,我们能够充分的理解这个讽刺，我们已经习惯这点了,是我们使自己习惯这点的，当然，反之亦然。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

School is supposed to start in September. But,the agency says 3,700 schools may not be available for classes because they are being used to house 150,000 internally displaced people.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

Humoral comes from the term humours and it used to be that we thought about disease as being caused by the balance of humours in our blood.

体液一词来源于体液学说,过去认为疾病的产生,与血中的体液平衡有关

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Alston said the United States should explain who is running the program and what precautions are being taken to ensure that these weapons are used within the framework of international law.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

You get the idea here, is to deliver the gene that you're interested in directly to the tissue where it's being used and in this case, the idea is to introduce a gene that's missing.

但首先你要明确,这种思路是用来将,某个目的基因直接导入,它原本就能被利用的组织中的,此例中是导入一种缺失的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We know that this is already happening in remote clinics, for example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with HIV,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

So it lets you do a profile of not just the genes that you possess, for example, but what genes are actually being used to make proteins in the cells that surround the fluid where this was collected.

他不仅能让研究者了解,人带有哪些基因,还能知道,在收集到的体液细胞的样本中,哪些基因是合成蛋白质的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Dr.Hope Ferdowsian, director of research policy at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), , says chimpanzees used for HIV and hepatitis research are anaesthetized with a dart gun before being subjected to harmful and invasive procedures.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But they say things have changed in Afghanistan since then and Secretary Clinton told the audience of mostly students that it makes sense to examine the strategy and tactics being used to achieve those goals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

We're used to thinking about sound being tranduced; being converted by acoustic waves into electrical signals that can be recognized by your iPods.

我们想想声音信号的转换过程,声音由声波转化为电子信号,你的iPod能够识别这种信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

As part of the "Hang it up and Keep it Up" campaign, the volunteers not only hang up the nets in the homes but also do follow-up visits to make sure they are being used correctly.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25