Automatic faucets use an electronic sensor to start and stop the flow of water when people wash their hands.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

We'll come back to them a little bit later when we start talking about the question, "Could machines be creative?"

稍后再对其继续讨论,当我们开始探讨这样一个问题,机器有创造能力吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What would you say is the most important quality when you're trying to start your own business?

当你尝试创业的时候，你觉得什么品质是最重要的呢？

要想成为事业家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than five centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

When you go to a concert of classical music and the music is played and you start to talk what happens?

比如当你们去听古典音乐会,在演奏进行时,你们开始讲话,那会发生什么

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He says when it comes to saving energy and money, big changes start with small steps like turning out the lights.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than 5 centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

But when I actually start to spend the money, I told my people, "We need to spend this over the next 12 months.

当我开始使用这笔资金的时候，我告诉我的员工，这笔钱要维持公司运营12个月。

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

When I am facing a lot of pressure at work, my back and neck will start to hurt.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

As we learned about how humans operate we could start to design machines that would help humans when they weren't functioning properly.

当我们了解了机体如何运作,就可以设计出器械,在人体某些部位功能失常时提供帮助

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They start to fall in love. But after he recovers, the girlfriend who left him when he got hurt tries to win him back.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.

当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"They need to start getting mammograms at age 40,". "Mammograms pick up cancers when they're smaller."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The categories, the colors, very quickly start to make sense when you just start poking around.

类别，颜色，当你刚开始移动它们,的时候就能进行这个了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Geithner says the typical pattern of an economic turnaround dictates that only when businesses start to hire again will there be a peak in unemployment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

When we start writing code, you're going to see that difference, but for now, don't worry about it, I just want to plant that idea.

当我们开始写代码的时候，你就会看到区别了，但是现在别担心，我只是想让你们初步有个印象。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Hanle says the focus is on offering special programs for teachers at middle schools and high schools because that's when the students start to lose interest in studying science.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Absorption is just the opposite of emission, so instead of starting at a high energy level and dropping down, when we absorb light we start low and we absorb energy to bring ourselves up to an n final that's higher.

吸收就是发射的逆过程,与从一个高能量到低能量不同，当吸收光时，我们从低能量开始,吸收能量到一个更高的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The secretary general would not say when the transition might start, how long it will take, or when it might be possible to start reducing the NATO troop commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Now when I asked you to start keeping the dietary records, I asked you not necessarily to change your food intake because we wanted you to have an accurate record of what you typically ate.

当我让你自己保留饮食记录,我告诉你没有必要改自己的食物摄入记录,因为我们想获得准确数据,关于你一般吃什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Members of this community say they're determined to show the same resolve over the coming months as they did 20 years ago when they moved here to start a new life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

So, the only point of interest about this is that when do people start thinking that they're French, as opposed to from a certain family, from a certain village, from a certain region?

所以对这些感兴趣的唯一目的就是,什么时候大家开始觉得自己是法国人了,相对于某个家族,某个村子,某个地区

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"I would say that it is my crisis training in the airline industry that helped me know at that moment when you feel emotionally paralyzed what to do and how to start communicating that sad news."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Because in Spain you have to choose your major like when you start university,

因为在西班牙你必须刚上大学就选择专业，

来自西班牙的留学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I think the priorities are totally skewed when people start looking at stormwater when in reality they need to be looking at what is the primary biggest culprit in what their receiving waters are being degraded by."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

When it gets to thousands of atoms things start to condense because there is a capacity to form other bonds secondarily, which we will get to in a little bit.

当有成千上万的原子,开始浓缩,因为形成次级键,的趋势，然后得到的体积只有一点点。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But the evening really kicks into high gear after the scientist's presentation ends, when the audience gets to start the conversation: "Is it still a question as to whether there is a lot more plant diversity in the Andes versus the Amazon?"

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

When you start laughing at somebody you think of them as less of a person and we'll get to that a little bit more when we talk about laughter.

当你嘲笑别人时,他们在你眼中的人性就会减少,我们以后再深入探讨幽默,等我们讲到笑的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Why is it that when we see these law partners, or medical partners, or whatever it happens to be, or students together on a homework assignment, why is it we tend to get inefficiently little effort when we start figuring out the strategy and working through the game?

为什么这些律师事务所的律师,医疗合伙人或者其他类似的机构,还有一起做作业的学生,当我们研究过这些策略和博弈后,为何这样的组合往往是收效甚微的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选