And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Maybe in the last 6 or 8 months or so, it started to get better.

从前6个月或8个月开始，有所好转了。

经济危机也能避开 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So it started to drift and people started to think I think a guinea is worth more than twenty shillings and the market price drifted up to twenty-one shillings.

所以，它的价值开始波动，人们开始考虑,我认为一个几尼的价值多于二十个先令的价格,于是市场价格就上升到二十一先令的价值上去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, at any rate, this seemed to me to be, when I started teaching this course, reasons not to teach it.

因此无论如何对我来说，当我开始教这门课的时候决定不说它的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We didn't have a feasible business model, let's put it this way, because when we started, the business model is to provide the backend search technology to the portal companies in China.

或者说没有一个，可行的商业模式，因为公司成立初期的商业模式，是给门户网站公司,提供后台搜索技术。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Was it that somebody started to train harder?

运动员们更加努力训练？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You all could still do that if you decide too, but it's going to be harder for you than if you would have started when you were ten, so you're losing some potential around - along the way.

如果你想的话也许还可以,但会比起你从十岁开始努力,会更困难一些,因此你们在成长的路上失去了一些潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Now since I think that the arguments I'm about to sketch-- and I've just started sketching the first of is fails I hope you'll think it over and you'll eventually come to agree with me, yeah, these arguments don't really work after all.

由于我并不认同我将要介绍的论点,尽管我已经开始概述其中的第一个分论点了,我希望你们能够认真思考,最终你们也会同我的观点一致,的确,这些论点都不成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

but people came and they, you know, started making a fuss about it. So it's back to the regular time.

但纽约市民不满意这个决定，纷纷跑来闹事。所以，公园的开放时间又恢复到从前了。

河滨公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I chose English Literature because when I started off a university, I didn't know what it was I wanted to do.

我选英语文学是因为当我刚上大学的时候，我不知道自己到底想做什么。

为何选那门专业？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And then eventually, I found I was pretty good at it and started, you know, writing to coaches,

然后最终，我发现我打得挺好，就开始给教练写信，

高尔夫俱乐部的回忆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The point I'm trying to make is, fixed-program computers is where we started, but it doesn't really get us to where we'd like to be.

我要指出的一点是，我们从固定程序计算机开始说起，但它并不能让我们到达我们想去的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It really formed only at the point when we started to bring in capital.

董事会真正成立的时候,正是我们开始引进资金的时候。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Okay. So what happened next was he then started to run that faster, twice as fast as it had been before, changing rate of harmonic pattern. Okay?

好的，比以前的快两倍，比以前的快两倍，改变了泛音的方式，改变了泛音的方式，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Because it came from optics, you know, rays of sunlight and so on And in fact, even when we first started pulling synthetic fiber, the first synthetic fiber cellulose was referred to as ray on, because it looked like a ray that was being pulled.

因为它源自光学，比如太阳光线等等,实际上，及时当我们首先开始抽出,人造纤维，第一根人造纤维的纤维素,叫做光线，因为那条在被抽出的纤维素,看起来像是一道光线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选