It happens. Fortunately, while sitting in jail awaiting trial, the slow thief decided to figure what was wrong. And, amazingly enough, he had studied mathematics. And had a blackboard in the cell. So he was able to work it out.

失主叫了警察然后小偷最后被抓进了监狱,幸运的是这个贼做来牢房里,等待判决时发现了自己的错误,它很惊人的学习过数学，牢房里,还有一个黑板，它可以把题目算出来了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But usually, if you are not able to work out something in terms of taking the exam at a different time,

不过通常情况下，你不太可能被允许换个时间参加考试，

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And this exercise of being able to work In these three different modes, economic intuition, graphs, and kind of nerdy high school math is a lot of what we want to get you used to as Economic Majors, just to be able to translate easily between those.

这个练习可以用,三种不同的方法解决,即,经济直觉,图表,和一些讨厌的高中数学,希望经济学专业的同学能掌握这些方法,对于这些方法能够随手拈来

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so I don't know, I think it's just really cool to be able to work something from the ground up.

所以，我不知道，我就是觉得能从头开始做一件事很酷。

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So for me, it's kind of nice to be able to work at one of those agencies in town.

所以对我来说，能够在这一带的公司工作是件令人高兴的事。

正直是最好的 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, if you can't immediately know, and you don't all have periodic tables in front of you, so that's fine, but if you have a periodic table in front of you, you need to be able to count valence electrons, so work on that if it doesn't come naturally to you in terms of figuring that out.

如果你不能马上想到，而且你手上没有周期表，那还好，但如果你面前有一张周期表，那你就得具备从中查出价电子个数的能力，如果你不能自然而然地想到,请在这方面多下点功夫。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He just sort of plunges you into their speech, into their lives, and you have to, in a sense, work to get into their character to be able to keep track of who is speaking.

他就是将你拉入他们的语言他们的生活，某种意义上来说你不得不，努力去进入他们的角色,以便了解是谁在说话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's too early to tell what the impact on learning will be from open course ware but we know from messages people have sent us that educators see tremendous value in being able to use the site to build work upon others.

现在还不好说,但是通过人们发来的邮件我们知道了,教育者对于能够在别人的基础上,展开自己的工作给予很高赞扬,他们现在可以节约下时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So the two points of interest of research are how does it work this conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy how are we able to bring back lost hair cells to cure deafness.

因此这项研究的两个关键点,一是机械能,是如何转化成电能的,我们能不能通过修复受损的毛细胞,来治疗耳聋。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

where I can choose the hours I work and be able to attend my daughter's dance recitals

因为当上教授后，我可以选择工作的时间，这样就能参加女儿的独舞表演会了

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I sort of blocked it out with the circles, but then you can go put in two servings, and you put what time of day you had it and then the program will be able to do its work.

我把它圈了出来,你输入说是两份,之后输入进食的时间,系统随后就能运行分析

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

By taking cells from the skin, for example, or cells from your blood or cells from the bone marrow and keeping them alive in culture, we've been able to study how human cells work and learn a lot about the functioning of human organism.

举例来说,通过从人的皮肤,骨髓,或者血液中提取细胞,并在培养基中培养,就能研究人类细胞是如何工作的,并在一定程度上了解人类机体的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You know, so he's seen me work in a lot of different contexts, so he was able to write a letter that said,

所以，他知道我在不同的环境下是如何工作的，这样他在给我写推荐信时才会说出以下这番话。

写推荐书的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

so it's nice just to be able to relax and not have to do work.

所以能抽空放松一下感觉非常不错。

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