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

VOA: special.2009.05.10

I used to have a dog that I would walk in this area a lotwhen he was very young.

我以前有一只狗，它很小的时候，我会经常在这里遛狗。

911事件的影响 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You've got to be very used to the notion of taking a vector in some oblique direction and writing it in terms of i and j.

你们应该已经很熟悉,倾斜的坐标系中矢量的概念,和用 i 和 j 来表示该矢量的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The team used the most powerful telescope in the world - the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

This is a signal - this passing of phosphorous - is a signal that's used very frequently in intracellular communication.

这是一种信号,一种通过磷酸来传递的信号,这种信号在细胞内通讯时经常被用到

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

She used very dense stitches that are very close together to make flowing lines of bright colors.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.

所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"It's better and better. It's very professional this year. It used to be more mediocre-type stuff.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

So, a lot of technical words independently that are very much accurate and used in technical context.

涉及技术的专业词汇,是非常精准的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In summertime, which can get very hot in Washington, President Lincoln used a country house.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

So, for example, Wellbutrin, it is very unlikely that it would have thionyl chloride in order to make it, and if thionyl chloride was used at some point in the synthesis, it was not to put that chlorine atom on, it was to put something else on.

比如，安非他酮，用亚硫酰氯来制造它,是不太可能的，而就算在合成过程中的某一阶段用到了亚硫酰氯，它也不会把氯原子加进去，而是把其它东西加进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Warhol used a very smooth painting method so the artwork almost did not look hand-made.

VOA: special.2010.09.05

The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was very religious and thought the Bible should be used only for religious purposes.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

I'm asking is that the very same extended-through-time entity as the extended-through-time entity that I used to own. I wonder.

我问的是,现在的这个贯穿时间的物体,是不是当年我拥有的,贯穿时间的物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example,Kahn was very interested in the look and feel of the materials he used.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

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

But the video effects used on stage are very much part of the twenty-first century.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

As we'll discuss later, the language that gets used with these things is very interesting.

我们今后会讨论,描述食物的语言也非常有趣

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 development environment, the programming languages, some of the libraries that are used were things that Steve Jobs was very tightly connected to from the very beginning.

VOA: special.2011.01.28

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The very detailed cloth was probably used in Buddhist ceremonies.

VOA: special.2011.06.15

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

"He was young and I had a very good time drawing his picture because I used a lot of reference material that were paintings made of him at different times in his life.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

If you've never seen it, it's a Kirk Douglas movie that's a good movie, and it's about the mutinies on the Western Front, and it's very good. We used to say, well come to 101 and it'll be a film that'll be shown at 8 p.M.

你要是从来没看过,这是一部科克·道格拉斯的电影,好电影,是关于西线战士反叛的故事,非常好,我们总说,欢迎来101教室晚上八点有电影

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"And also spices like turmeric, which is used in India very much, but also along with North African Countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

It used to be a different type of neighborhood at one point, it was very poor.

在过去的某个时候，这里曾是一个完全不同的社区，感觉很穷。

这里不危险 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"This is very serious. That's why the rice will not go back to the level that we used to see,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

And it's very... it's changed a lot since... the way that it used to be.

而且，它很……和过去相比，它变了很多。

肉品市场区的变迁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A very simple pattern that you undoubtedly have heard and used many times before.

这是一个非常简单的句型，毫无疑问，你肯定已经听过或使用过很多回了。

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