"It was a very able speech," said one man, a wool buyer.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

It turns out that the kinds of post-translational modifications human cells are able to do are very complicated.

研究结果证实人类细胞所能完成的,翻译后修饰非常复杂

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

it's very difficult when one is so articulate and is able to express exactly what you want to say,

当一个人已经熟谙一门语言，能够用这门语言清楚明白地表达意思，

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"Yes, very able," answered his friend.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Or a lot of the times when a website is compromised and you're able to steal someone's usernames and passwords, very often are the result of simple little things like this.

很多时候，当要访问的网站被人破坏了,你就有机会窃取别人的账号,和密码，正是因为这样或那样的小疏忽存在,才会导致这种事情频频发生。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The exploration vehicle will be able to measure methane even at very low levels in many places on the surface.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Yale, I think, is the number one performer so it's very interesting that we're able-- it's very significant that we're able to get David Swensen.

我认为,耶鲁的经营收益是排名第一的,所以很有意思的是我们能够...,很有意义的是,我们能够请到大卫·斯文森

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the end, he was able to produce a very similar crystal bracelet for less than twenty dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But she also works in public relations and says that being able to tell a good story is very important in any job.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

They do that in a very special way in that they - restriction enzymes are able to identify a particular sequence of bases in a gene.

限制性内切酶的工作机制很特别,它能识别基因中的一段特定的碱基序列

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Stem cells from very early embryos are able to grow into any tissue in the body.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

And so they are hedging their belts, at least partly on India as a democratic English-speaking country ... which they may be able to... so strategically I think that's a very important sort of part in American thinking in terms of future of India.

所以美国要布下防线，至少在印度这个,说英语的民主国家布下防线,这样他们才可能。,因此从战略角度出发我认为,这是美国政府对于印度未来的,一大设想。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So trees are actually able to grow on rocks. They have very strong roots."

VOA: special.2010.07.13

And then we'll be able to in a very w straightforward way get w.

在这种情况下我们可以容易地,得到△U，然后我们就能直接得到。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Yet she was able to send Clare to very good schools.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

just being able to keep saying from a person's perspective which is very hard to see when you get very tense and very defensive. And it's just so good for me to have have someone like Saed especially with Saed personally, just to have that gate.

就是能够,从一个个人的角度聊问题,而如果你很紧张就很难做到这一点,很有戒备心的时候就很难，所以我能够,有Saed是非？牡？,有这扇门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"And no matter where you are in the world, that is a very important thing, to be proud of who you are and be able to let people hear what you have to say, whether they like it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

write and to be able to express your ideas in a very comprehensive and succinct way.

你要以非常全面和简洁的方式表达出自己的观点。

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"It can be contained if the government is able to overcome and restore peace and demonstrate that it is all working very well."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

So, then we'll get to turn to a new kind of mechanics or quantum mechanics, which will in fact be able to describe what's happening on this very, very small size scale -- so on the atomic size scale on the order of nanometers or angstroms, very small particles.

然后我们要讲到一种,新的力学--量子力学,它可以解释,发生在很小尺度,大约是原子尺寸大小,也就是纳米或埃的量级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We are making good progress and I am very hopeful that we will be able to get past that issue and move ahead to expand defense cooperation between us,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

And in such situations where the very survival of the community may be at stake we might call these emergency situations the conscientious statesmen must be able to respond appropriately.

而在这种情势下,社群的存活可能面临考验,我们可以称这些为紧急情势,谨慎的，政治家,必需能适时地回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We have got a lot of work to do,". "But I am very confident that with the team we have got assembled we are going to be able to make it happen."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

There are defense mechanisms, there are biological instincts, neurosis-- and if you understand these very often dark forces, were better able to deal with life: understand as well as improve the quality of life.

还有防卫机制，人类本能论，神经症-,如果你理解这些黑暗势力，就能更好地处理生活：,了解并改善生活质量。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"Fires,fires,fires," "But we are very fortunate that we have the best and the most aggressive, best trained, most courageous firefighters in the world and that's why we are able to push back very heavily."

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

You know, and within a very short amount of time be able to do a lot of things that that person may never be able to do.

在短时间内,可以做很多,那些只有丰富经验的人做不到的事。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

So to be able to get a tree that, first of all,has very clear rings that we're able to visually match to each other and then go through and produce these long records was remarkable."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

He speaks in a language of math and it is very important for students to be able to have hot copies so that they can take notes on the paper rather than be working very hard to copy down the equations that he used in these lectures.

他以数学语言授课,所以发给学生教学材料,是非常重要的,这样就可在纸上做笔记,而不用拼命,抄下他在课上,用到的等式。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

I'm able to move around, but it is very difficult.

我可以跳槽，但很难。

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