When this happens, one plate moves past the other, suddenly causing the Earth's surface to split.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Or one of my favorite examples, you could be sitting in your-- you read this sort of thing in the newspaper periodically-- you could be sitting in your living room when suddenly an airplane crashes into your house, killing you.

或者像我最喜欢用的一个例子那样，你可能坐在你-,你按时读报纸之类的东西-,你可能正坐在你家起居室里,这时突然有架飞机撞进了你家，杀死了你。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, keep that in mind when we're talking about atomic radius, I'm not suddenly changing my story and saying, yes, we do have a distinct radius.

因此，当我们讨论原子半径的时候要时刻记住这一点，我并不是在突然改变自己的说法，说是的，我们的确有一个准确的半径。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He said he was busy taking pictures when he suddenly had to do something else.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Let me remind you of that other intrusive moment in the poem, the moment when a figure whose presence we hadn't been aware of suddenly made -suddenly asserted himself.

我来提醒一下你们，诗里有另外一个被侵入的时刻，一个我们仍未可知的，突如其来的角色,突然出现的时刻,他毫无预兆的将自己安插进来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You come upon the canyon suddenly, when you reach its edge.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

We did that during the Great Depression, when it suddenly seemed like we really needed to do something.

是在大萧条时期开始实行的，因为当时我们突然发现,确实该做点什么了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"What happens when you get close to an anniversary is suddenly those images are back on TV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

When we ask this question-- this very important question, suddenly we see possibilities that we didn't see before.

当我们提出这个极为重要的问题，就会看到之前没看到的潜能。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Earthquakes generally occur when the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust move suddenly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

When they talked they suddenly became frantic and almost silly.

她们一说话就会变得粗野，甚至愚蠢。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Both subjects are high priority for Seoul. Six South Koreans drowned last month when the North suddenly released water from a dam, flooding camping areas in the South.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Their ships, their boats were not very seaworthy; storms come up in the Mediterranean very suddenly and terribly; you take your life in your hands when you travel.

他们航海的工具,船只,还非常脆弱,地中海可怕的风暴神出鬼没,当时出海就意味着,你把自己交给命运处置

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Havens recently told this reporter that he had already been onstage for nearly three hours when he played that song, which suddenly sprang to mind from his doo wop and gospel days back in Brooklyn.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

And things we've been repeating year after year after year, because they sound so reasonable, suddenly sound unreasonable when some of you point out some aspect of it that you didn't follow.

我们年复一年地重复着那些,听起来天经地义的知识,突然会变得苍白无力,就因为你们中有人指出了,一些你没理解的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

When I posit the existence of atoms with certain structures and certain sort of ways of interacting and combining and building up, when I posit atoms, suddenly I can explain all sorts of things about the physical world.

当我假设原子以某种特定结构存在,以一定的方式相互作用,互相结合,集聚,通过假定原子存在,我立即就能够解释,物理世界中各种各样的现象了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We can see various breaks in financial history when some new idea was suddenly proven workable.

金融史上,当新的想法突然间变得可行,我们就能看到许多的创新突破

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Why should we think there's some--Even though, normally, the barrier can be crossed and Xs can study the non-X, why should that barrier suddenly become un-crossable in the particular instance when we're dealing with Platonic forms?

为什么我们应该认为即使通常来说,那个界限是可以跨越的,即X可以研究非X,那为什么这个界限突然,在讨论柏拉图型相的时候,就变得不可逾越了呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选