It is easy to find them by the long lines of children waiting to tell Santa what they want for Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

We can write out what it is for any certain atom or ion x, X so it's just x plus an electron gives us x minus.

我们可以用，X，来表示一个任意的原子或离子，因此可以写成，X，加一个电子等于负一价的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.

在这之前是很整洁的，之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"No you can't. The gas company turned it off." "Now,what I'm telling you is for your own good.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

But it's not quite true, because typically what they actually do that, is they say it's adjusted for risk.

但是这是不对的，因为它们实际上就是存在这种情况，它们会根据风险进行调整。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When it was time for him to leave the spacecraft, this is what the world heard: "Roger,Flight,we're GO."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The great thing about classicism for Gadamer, or what he calls "tradition," is that it's something we can share.

对于伽达默尔来说古典主义，或者传统，最伟大之处是这是我们可以分享的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Half the time I wander around looking for something I can't remember what it is.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

- So this commands, number two here -- can someone just quickly translate into the English what it is doing for us? Yeah?

所以这个命令，在这里的第二个-,你们谁能快速地把它翻译成,英语来说明这是干什么的吗？，请说？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Soon after Call and Caroline were married, the Captain said to me, "This is hard for you,isn't it?What is it you really want to do?"

VOA: special.2009.02.14

for short...to answer that question, we need to get clearer about: What exactly is it for something to be me?

等等这些问题,我们需要先清楚以下问题,我究竟是什么东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It will make it easier to search for what each gene is responsible for.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

What a kinase enzyme does is that it recognizes this protein, and for example, the tyrosine that's on the protein.

激酶能够识别这类蛋白,例如,包含酪氨酸的蛋白

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She says what is happening in Miami shows how difficult it is to ensure public funds are available for accused criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

So let's do this considering, for example, what it would look like if we were to write out the electron configuration for oxygen where z is going to be equal to 8.

我们来做这个考虑，举例来说,如果我们写出,有效电荷量为8的氧的电子构型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"At some point this administration has to take responsibility for what it is doing and take responsibility for its decisions,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

He spoke advancing toward her: What is it you see from up there always?--for I want to know."

他站在她面前：,“你在那里看什么呢？我想知道，“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"It is exactly what the Afghan people were hoping for and were seeking, therefore it has our full support and backing."

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

So that's what his tendency is, but if he does that, it's very bad news for his city.

所以他就会倾向于逃跑,但如果他逃跑了,那这对他的城邦来说可是个坏消息

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"And what incentive programs do is make it more favorable for you to overcome that tendency to procrastinate doing something now."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

What I realized I was doing is I was constantly making excuses for not working on it.

我意识到这么做,其实是一直在为自己不努力去做找借口。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

"What that member country can do with it is withdraw the money and cash it in for real currency.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

What FASB does for the United States is it creates what are called Generally Accepted Accounting Practices.

财务会计准则委员会为美国所做的贡献,就是制定了国际公认会计准则

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"What it appears to be is an attempt to save face with the government, which is asking for help,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

So it's very easy for people to exceed dietary recommendations given what the modern food supply is.

在现代食物供给下,人们很容易就超过了建议饮食标准

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"It is time to do what is right, not for the next election, but for the middle class."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

But a lot of it is just like you define your objectives what you're going for.

但你首先要做的,是明确目标，清楚自己想要什么。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It leaves us where we began: asking what, finally, what is virginity good for?

他将我们带到起点：,疑惑着童贞到底有什么好处？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选