This is because glass has the hardness of crystal materials while also having a disordered arrangement of molecules like a liquid.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

The moon god has to come up at night and hang around for a while And go back down.

月神每晚都得出来，并且在天空悬一会儿,然后才能回去。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Right now, I'd really like to just study, uh, stay in school for a while and

现在，我就想多学习一些知识，在学校学几年，

什么事情都是可能的 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are four kinds of echidnas: three species are long-nosed, while another has a short nose.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

They don't sit in the box for a while and mull it over and then figure out how to do it.

它们并不会坐在迷笼里,思索问题，然后找到解决的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mister Zundt says a hydrogen bus will last an average of twenty years, while a diesel bus can be used for five to eight years.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

OCW Self learners are coming to OCW to explore whole new areas of study as well as to brush up on subjects that they took a while ago and perhaps got the rest in the end.

自学者浏览,搜索全新领域的研究,补充学过的科目的知识,使之完整。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Fred Barnes, editor of The Weekly Standard magazine "Obama,while a glib and smooth speaker, is not particularly persuasive,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Election officials said the main opposition party, The Botswana National Front, won six parliamentary seats while a splinter group, the Botswana Congress Party,won five.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

And the paper's not due for a while and so forth.

再说论文结稿还早。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

While a handful of U-S schools have incorporated the teaching method, Peterson felt it was a bit too drastic a change for their public preschool.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

And if not, sleep on it, think about it for a while and then keep going.

如果实在写不出来，就睡一觉，第二天再决定。仔细想一想后继续写。

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In what critics deemed well-orchestrated political theater a controversial candidate abandoned further attempts to prevent arrest and turned himself in while a rowdy crowd of supporters cheered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Have I ever passed by while a movie was going on there?

电影正在那儿拍摄的时候，我是否曾正好经过？

电影里的中央车站 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

U.S.President Barack Obama has proposed a freeze on non-entitlement domestic spending, while awaiting recommendations from a bipartisan commission tasked with charting a course to a balanced federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Let me talk for a while about some of the formal features of Hobbes' sovereign power, of the Hobbesian state.

接下来我要说说,霍布斯关于君主权力和他理想下的国家',应当具有的一些特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

While about a million Jews have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, only a few have been willing to leave behind the affluence of America and Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

And so, he was in kind of in this very minimum security and he finally just croaked a while ago.

所以就对他严加看管,前一阵子他终于死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Several countries, including the United States and the European Union, have sanctions imposed on the military, while a broad range of countries, including Asian states,Singapore,Thailand, Indonesia and and the Philippines have called for Aung San Suu Kyi's release.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Listen for a while and your body almost will start to tell you start to signal to you, where the downbeat is.

听一会,然后你们的身体大致才会告诉你们,开始给你们信号,告诉你重拍在哪里

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Now, Mr. Coca-Cola guy knows Patrick pretty well, they've been in the same industry for a while and Mr. Coca-Cola guy, whose name is?

可口可乐的人很了解帕特里克,他们做同行有段时间了,可口可乐的经理叫什么来着

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Okay, it's from 1987, so it's from quite a while ago, but.

这是1987年上映的，所以这是部老电影。

在伦敦拍摄的电影 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

So one of the things that we've done for a while now is, we have this thing called Director Day.

所以我们一直在做的是，设立董事日。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Then he would announce that he was going away to Europe or to California, or to Egypt for a while.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Every once in a while we'll bring up an issue of well, how has this been interpreted over the centuries?

偶尔我们会提到，几个世纪以来是如何解读的？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Somehow when you're unnamed you're not part of language; you're still connected to the mother. And he actually had a female name. Remember he's called Christine for a while.

不管什么原因你没有名字就是没成为语言的一部分;,你还是与妈妈紧紧联系，事实上他会得到,一个女性的名字，记住他曾经一段时间被叫做克里斯汀那。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选