What all this adds up to is a big responsibility for parents to consider what's really in a name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Sovereign is to have supreme command over life and death, war and peace, what is to be taught and heard.

君主对人的生死，和平或是战争,均拥有至高无上的权力，其他人等只有服从命令。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is something insidious and culturally malicious and powerful about the social conservatism of what is thought to be his voice.

人们认为弥尔顿宣扬的是社会保守主义,社会保守主义中有种隐藏的，文化上有害且强大的因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We also agree that what the government is trying to do is get these states back into their correct relation.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

That is almost everybody is committed to the view that what counts is allowing everyone to have a full and uninterrupted say.

也就是说几乎所有人都认为,最重要的是每个人,都应该有完全的发言权，无人干扰。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What better way is there to sell a car than to say it is as fast as a wildcat.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Socrates turns that into the statement that justice means paying your debts and returning what is owed to you.

苏格拉底将其转为供述说,正义意指偿还你的债务,并缴回你所欠的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This week,we will tell about what is said to be the largest study yet of a treatment for Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I might say I touched all the bases if I did what is necessary to complete a job or activity.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

So, if we want to think about what the first ionization energy is of boron, what you want to do is write out the electron configuration, because then you can think about where it is that the electron's coming out of.

如果我们要考虑,硼的第一电离能，你首先要做的是写出它的电子排布，因为在这之后,你才能知道拿走的是哪里的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They include what is said to be the largest growth of mangrove trees in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

So one of the things we're going to think about together in the course is what happens to all those innovations.

所以我们这门课要思考的一个问题,就是人们怎么对待对那些创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

And that's useful because clearly I don't need to know in advance what the answer is going to be, what that string is actually going to be.

那个是有用的，因为我不需要预先知道,那个答案将会变成什么，或者那个字符串将变成什么的时候。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"The Fantasticks" is about young love, children leaving home and what it is like to be a father.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

Well, let's start by-- Plato starts by telling us, reminding us of what it is to remember something.

让我们从这里开始,柏拉图首先告诉我们,提醒我们什么是记起一件事情

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Professor Nakshbendi says the biggest question is to what extent are they willing to follow their own advice.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

This is a word we'll be coming back to in about five or six lectures, Talking about what it is to be holy, but right now it essentially means it belongs to God.

我们将会在以后五，六个讲座中回来讨论，在讲到“究竟何为神圣“时，但现在只意味着它属于上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But now,Ms.Troiano says the aim is to work with local teachers to provide what is known as co-teaching.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

Another way to explore what the brain does is to consider what happens to people when very bad things happen to their brain.

另一个探究大脑功能的方法,就是在人们的大脑遭受严重损伤时,观察他们的行为变化

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At the very least,he says, they will gain experience to take back to school if that is what they decide to do.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

And so the big issue is -- this is what you must never do, but this is what you got to do if your phalanx is broken.

所以现在的大问题是,这也许是你在战场上永远不能做的事,但你在方阵被打散时不得不这么干

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What is her message to them? "I always advocate, don't get angry or upset about that,get creative.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

What I'd like to do today is talk to you about how it is that we moved from this old model to what it is that today many institutions call the Yale model.

今天我想讲的就是,我们如何从传统模式,转变为所谓耶鲁模式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is what you use to hit nails into the pieces of wood to hold them together.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Highly irregular, and what is happening to it?

非常不规则，这里发生了什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So what lesson is there to learn from the myth of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown?"

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Thought it would ruin my career You can do that in the evenings It's not what it is to be a professor, or a philosophor, or anything that would be respected by a university.

觉得这会毁了我的事业,我可以在晚上搞这种研究,那不是一所大学里倍受尊敬的,一个教授，或是哲学家,或是任何人所会做的事。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

What I suggest we do is we do what we did last time and we start to draw a picture to figure out what my expected payoff is, depending on what I believe the goalie is going to do.

我建议用上次的方法,作图来表示在我对门将的策略,存在某种信念下,我的预期收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选