Having a happy neighbor who lived next door increased an individual's chance of being happy by 34%.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

And then it occurs to you that in the next room there's a healthy guy who came in for a check-up.

然后你突然想起,在隔壁病房,有个来做体检的健康人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Political experts say the stakes in the health care debate are huge,not only for President Obama, but also for congressional Democrats who will defend their House and Senate seats in next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

As we might put it: What is it for somebody who's here next week to be the same person as me?

或者说,现在的我,和下周在这里的我又有什么不同

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I think the larger issue is the psychological torment; animals isolated, kept away from others who can give them companionship, fearing what's going to happen next, and animals living in this constant state of confinement."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Let's turn to the next president who is gonna have a hard choice to make.

接下来我们谈谈下届总统选举的问题,这个不太容易搞定。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Senator Specter, who's been in the Senate for 29 years, would face a difficult reelection contest next year as a Republican in Pennsylvania, a state that backed Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in last year's presidential race.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

The next one is a colleague of mine, William Corbin, who's doing some very interesting work on alcohol intake and gambling, and sometimes how they go together.

下一位是我的同事威廉·柯宾,他在从事关于酗酒及嗜赌的研究,为何两者常会被联系在一起

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He says the current U.S.strategy of pushing for a two-state solution is not winning support from Israelis who want to see a partition but are worried about Israel's security with Palestinians running their own state next door.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

I don't know who's coming next class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of resource in the class.

我不知道下节课会有谁来,有什么情况,不过我会在课程开始的时候,先安排几分钟,让你们向前后左右的同学,进行一番自我介绍,这样你们就能在这个班里,认识一些新同学了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

with someone else who's standing next to you, you're going to sum your numbers together and one of you whoever is fastest probably is going to sit down and the other person is going to take on his or her number, the summation of those numbers; and then you're going to repeat and if you follow the logic here in just a few moments, there should be just one of you very awkwardly standing.

你们需要与站在你下面一个的你结成一对,把你们的数字相加,你们中最快的那个可以坐下,其他人将接着他的那个号码继续进行，计算这些数字的和，以此重复,如果你们遵循了这一逻辑，最后将只有一个人呆呆地站着。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There's the room of this life, and there's the room of the next life and people who have near-death experiences either temporarily were in the second room or else at least they were glancing into the second room.

这里是今生的房间,那里有一个来世的房间,有濒死体验的人,或者短暂地进入到第二个房间,或者至少对第二个房间匆匆一瞥

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选