She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.
VOA: special.2009.07.18
That is to say that when we think we're telling the truth we're actually using worn-out figures of speech.
也就是说我们认为我们在讲述真理的时候,我们实际上却在使用一些陈腐的修辞手法。
When I say dirty, I am referring mostly to like a graffiti. There's a lot of graffiti on walls, on buildings.
我说的脏,主要指的是涂鸦。大楼墙上到处画满了乱七八糟的涂鸦。
Experts say the ability to take up lead is reduced when the pH level is above six and a half.
VOA: special.2009.06.09
I didn't want to make that judgment call for her when she said I am, what did she say?
我不想为她做判断,当她说,她说了什么?
Georgiana's past lovers used to say that the hand of a magical fairy had touched her face when she was born.
VOA: special.2009.09.26
When Alexander gets to Persia, or let's say when he gets to Egypt, he knows that there is this god Isis, this female god Isis, that's very important.
亚历山大抵达波斯时,这么说吧,他来到埃及后,发现当地有个叫艾西斯的神,这位艾西斯女神地位非常崇高。
Children's doctors say patients up to age nineteen should not take anything containing Salicylatic products when sick with high temperatures.
VOA: special.2010.12.14
So,all this is,is just,as we begin to ask ourselves, what could it possible mean when people say everyone dies alone?
所以我们要开始问自己,人们说他们孤独而死的时候是什么意思?
Children's doctors say patients up to age nineteen should not take anything containing salicylatic products when sick with high temperatures.
VOA: special.2010.12.14
I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.
我本想说第一次尝试时,但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。
You get down to brass tacks when you say, "it sounds good, but how much does it cost?"
VOA: special.2010.05.16
Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me.
我从哪里得到肉给他们吃呢?,当他们都在我面前哭号,‘给我肉吃’,我无法独自管理这些人,这负担对我来说太沉重了。
Doctors say tissues and organs begin to cook when the body's temperature is higher than forty-two degrees Celsius.
VOA: special.2010.07.27
He says--and here's that Yeatsian word "all" again--he says: When I try to put all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
他说,又是他涵盖一切的词:,当我想用一句话概括时,我说,人可以表现他不理解的真理“
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say.
VOA: special.2010.06.20
That is to say, when the rules governing authority have broken down in times of crisis, and that was certainly true in Hobbes' time, a time of civil war and crisis.
这就是说,当统治权力,在危机下崩溃时,这恰好就是霍布斯时代的情况,充满内战和危机的时代。
They say it will enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection when involved with sexual partners who refuse to wear condoms.
VOA: special.2010.07.21
Pseudo code. Now, you're all linguistic majors, pseudo means false, this sounds like code that ain't going to run, and that's not the intent of the term. When I say pseudo code, what I mean is, I'm going to write a description of the steps, but not in a particular programming language.
伪代码,基于你们都是学语言的,伪代码意味着不正确,这听起来就像是没法运行的代码,这可不是我们学这个的目的,当我说到伪代码的时候,我的意思是要对步骤进行一个描述,而不是某种特定的编程语言。
The experts also say doctors need to work with pregnant women to do a better job of estimating exactly when a pregnancy began.
VOA: special.2009.10.26
His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.
他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同,那与你无关,那是关于其他事情的”
In Amman,Jordan,witnesses say at least eight people were injured when government supporters used sticks to attack demonstrators.
VOA: special.2011.02.19
So, Corinth really had a very great deal to say about what was going on So, when Potidaea got into trouble with Athens, and found itself Corinth sent a real army to go in there and fight, and I think that's because of this very special relationship that they had.
所以科林斯有很大的权力来左右迁徙地,所以当迁徙地与雅典交战并被围攻的时候,科林斯派遣了一支真正的军队去作战,我想正是出于他们之间的这种特殊关系
All she wanted to think about was what the stranger would say to her when she told him where to find the heron's nest.
VOA: special.2010.04.03
it's very difficult when one is so articulate and is able to express exactly what you want to say,
当一个人已经熟谙一门语言,能够用这门语言清楚明白地表达意思,
Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.
VOA: special.2009.01.05
All of these systems we can call "languages," and "language"--that is to say, the words that we use when we speak to each other is one of those systems.
这种系统我们称为语言“,也就是说,是关于我们说话用语的研究,关于那个系统的研究。
You might say,for example, that your heart was in your mouth when you asked a bank to lend you some money to pay for a new house.
VOA: special.2010.07.18
I wouldn't say we're doing that constantly, but we certainly force ourselves to do it when there are new clear disruptions and whenever there's a clear crisis in the business.
我不能说我们一直在这样做,但是在公司遇见,困境或危机时,我们会强迫,自己这样做。
Because when we try to suppress a natural phenomenon such as having a visual of the word when we say it, that thing just intensifies.
因为当我们企图压抑一种自然现象时,比如提起一个词时浮现出相应形象,只会加强它。
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