ALLEN: "What is it,Mister Benny?" BENNY: "Oh,Mister Allen,have you heard that they're making women's bathing suits out of spun glass?"

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Specifically, what is it that American companies that, both then and now, still don't understand about China that you think you do and they don't?

美国公司对于中国的互联网行业，始终不甚了解,能否谈谈一些你知道而别人不知道的原因？

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

spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.

他花费了很多的时间和精力来研究,人们想要在下个星期买进什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

With all the planning that goes into some weddings, it is easy to forget what the event is all about.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

So, we can think about what is it that we would call the ground state wave function.

我们来考虑一下,基态的波函数，是怎么样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"That's what really opened up the experience for me, to prove how bad it is to really text and drive."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

What is it that is bothering him?

是什么在影响他？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And,that it applies universally, it doesnt matter what ones faith is, it doesnt matter whether its a man or a woman.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

What is it that's different about this game from the... What's the obvious thing just looking at this picture that makes it different from the partnership game.

这个博弈的不同之处在于,从这个图上能很明显看到的,它与确实与合伙人博弈有所区别

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Or,what better way is there to sell gasoline than to say that using it is like putting a tiger in your tank.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

What is it that tells us that it's in duple meter?

是什么告诉我们这是二拍子的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

What many people do not know is that it was meant sarcastically, as just the opposite.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

What is it that grasps the ideas or the forms?

什么能认知理念或者型相呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What you want to do is heat your base bead until it's that honey-like consistency.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

What is that? It's the piece of code we wrote for computing square roots, square roots of actually perfect squares.

对吧？这是什么呢？,这是我们写的计算平方根的代码，计算完全全平方根的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"What IMBRA does is it just introduces some common-sense safeguards that we're going to allow foreign women to make informed decisions and to better protect themselves.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

And in these experiments we not only need to learn what has been learnt, but also have to learn what it is that we don't know.

在这些试验里我们不仅,要知道已知的知识，还要知道,我们不知道的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And the man took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says,"H'm,so it is.Well, what is he good for?"

VOA: special.2009.08.29

What it means is that in understanding a text, we are attempting to grasp it in paraphrase.

它是说，在理解文章时，我们在试着给它释义，并掌握它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But scientists found that it is not just what they ate.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

What is scathing about it is that Frost gives up all justification for self-interest.

讽刺的是,弗罗斯特因为个人兴趣放弃了所有的正当理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It also is probably what a number of reporters said earlier this month when they were permitted to see a machine that will be sent to the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

My prototype, again, so that I can use it later increment without the compiler wondering what is this increment that you're referring to because it's not otherwise been declared.

我的函数原型，再次强调，我可以以后使用它,这样编译器就不会疑惑这个你提及的,是什么，因为是没有,被声明的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And by learning what it is about economic development or housing that actually helps to improve health, we can then design more programs and ultimately make better use of the knowledge that we have."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

We're naturally invited to question what force is it that this moon represents.

我们很自然的会想问,月亮代表的是哪一股力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"That is what makes it stand out and different than just being a normal genre piece to me,anyway."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

And it is that conflict, as it were, between what we might call worldliness and innocence that is the core of Machiavelli's moral code.

可以说，正是那种冲突,那种我们可以称之为世俗理念与纯洁无知之间,的冲突，是马基雅维利道德准则的核心所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Barker says what this means is that it could be weeks before the composition of Britain's future government becomes clear.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

I got interested in this--well, I got interested in this as a developmental psychologist watching my own children laugh and trying to figure out what it is that made them laugh.

我对笑感兴趣…,身为一个长成心理学家,当我看到我孩子笑时，我就对这个议题感兴趣了,我想弄明白是什么令他们笑的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the Odyssey,you remember Odysseus finds himself on the island of the Cyclops, those one-eyed monsters, and what is it about them that make them so monstrous, so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?

还记得《奥德赛》中的奥德修斯,在独眼怪居住的岛上遇到的那些怪物,为什么这些独眼怪在荷马式英雄的眼中,是那么丑陋,那么残忍

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选