"Matt is one of my very good friends, so I did it as a friend, but also because I love playing the violin."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

One comes across it periodically. Within the last year, a member of our law school here put forward this very argument and said he thought it was a good one.

就在去年，我校法学院的一名成员就提出了,同样是这个论点并加之褒奖。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Piaget was really big into question and answer, but one problem with this is that children aren't very good with language, and this might lead you to underestimate how much they know.

皮亚杰非常热衷用问与答的方法进行研究,但这里存在的一个问题便是,儿童并未能完全掌握语言,这可能会导致你低估他们的理解能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Admiral Stavridis admits there is one thing NATO is not very good at.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

It's made of strong metal, it's got very thin slits to be able to see straight ahead, covered up; everything else is covered up, a good one will cover your neck as well.

头盔是坚固的金属制成,正面有一条很细的开口能让士兵看到前方,左右两边都包住,剩下所有地方都包住,好一点的头盔甚至能保护颈部

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Another famous study was called The Seven Country Study done by a researcher at The University of Minnesota named Ancel Keyes. Now he was very well known -he was a very good scientist and known for two different kinds of studies, much different from one another.

另外一个著名研究叫做七国研究,是由明尼苏达大学一位,叫安塞尔.凯斯的研究员主持的,他现在是一位非常出色的科学家,他主要因为两项不同的研究为人所知,那是两个很不一样的研究

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 even then, that may not be enough."-- Because once you don't get tenure in one place, you don't go up in terms of the ranking of the school-- you very often would get tenure but elsewhere, school that is not considered as good as the one where you were rejected.

即使到了那时，可能也不够-,如果在一所学校无法获得终身职位，就没有可能在更高学府取得-,经常是在别的院校获得，那些比拒绝你的学院,差一等的院校。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选