Most of the stories were short. There was heavy use of color and images and things like opinion polls.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

But more that anything else I think it was that they were interllectuals, and that they were spending time with undergraduates.

但我觉得，更重要的是,他们是知识分子，而且他们和本科生一起生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

and I think that because... from a long time ago there were, it was just a very diverse city.

而且很久前，这里就是个多元性的城市。

移民者的都市 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A TV was on. My eyes were elsewhere, but my ear was caught by the unmistakable voice of Walter Cronkite.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

People's expectations were so high we didn't know if what we were publishing was going the meet those expectations.

我们不知道该网站,能否满足人们的期望,好消息是我们再一次。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

That was mostly when fuel prices were so high last year that people in California were not driving to her stores.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

It was not like they were giving them a great deal, this was part of constructing their own business expansion.

并不是良心发现，而是为了生意扩张。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He was dressed simply. His clothes were the same as those worn by the lowest soldiers in his army.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

So these devices, when I was a youngster, were colloquially known as "atom smashers", because they have the capacity to actually break these and have them reform.

这些设备，当我还年轻的时候，它们在口语中被叫做核粒子加速器，因为它们有能力,将这些破碎并重新形成。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

And on Monday what we were discussing was the solution to the Schrodinger equation for the wave function.

周一我们讨论了,薛定谔方程解的波函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So, if a bond was issued when interest rates were lower, they might have a 4% coupon when the prevailing rate is 6%.

所以，如果一只债券在利率很低的时候发行，在汇率为6%的的时候，它们可能有一个4%的票息。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Supplies were very low. There was not enough food to eat, no shoes to wear, and little left to fight with.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

But what we quickly found was that we were still losing money.

但是百度,仍然在亏损。

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

"And the box was open and there were probably about five or six of these little round, yummy-smelling warm doughnuts in there.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

What he meant was they were the charges put in the world for slaveholders to care for, and if possible, even to protect and perfect.

他的意思就是,奴隶是世界留给奴隶主来管理的财产,如果可能的话,还应保护和完善他们

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Others disagreed. In any case, it was not a good time to argue it was the Great Depression, and times were difficult.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.

他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He had a plan,he said. And he would not move until he was sure his men were ready.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

One thing that happened was that after 1956, 1957 the number of cases were down, there was a small bump here, the cases were up.

一九五六年后发生了一件事,在一九五七年,病例的数量有所下降,但在这里却有一个很小的上扬,病例数量上升了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If these offers were rejected, Slidell was to try to buy part of California for five million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Can you still understand what it was you were trying to do?

你能依然明白,代码的含义么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At first I thought the city was empty. The buildings all were empty and in poor repair.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But this army was not trained. His soldiers were civilians who knew nothing about fighting a war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Socrates says, "No. On the contrary, we do have reason, based on the argument from recollection, to conclude that the soul was around before we were born."

苏格拉底说,不对,恰恰相反,基于回忆论,我们有理由去说,灵魂存在于我们出生之前

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They had lost the Civil War. Now much of their power was gone, and they were suffering.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

One of the few things he said to me when he asked me to be the WHCF was something you were alluded to at the outset in your introduction.

当他让我做办公室主任时,他跟我说的其中一个是,节目一开始的介绍之中,你就提到过了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

- But the computer-- but a lot of data about all the students on campus were-- -- was collected--were collected and people were then randomly paired up and sent to the dance.

但是通过计算机-,校园所有学生的数据-,收集起来,然后同学随机配对,按照这种配对一起跳舞。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选