What does he think of Valentine's Day? "I think it's actually a good opportunity to remember those things that we want to do on Valentine's Day you know,special things for the spouse or whoever you probably ought to do them year-round.
VOA: special.2010.02.08
Now, Ken Kesey, some of you probably know, was a sort of performer, writer, not really an activist.
你们可能知道,他算是一个表演家、作家,不过不是一个积极分子。
And you probably know that Leicester Square is where all the big film premieres happen.
你可能知道,莱斯特广场是所有电影巨作的首映现场。
"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.
VOA: standard.2010.02.16
RAM You probably know your computer has something called RAM which is where documents and programs live just temporarily while you're running them 'cause RAM tends to be pretty fast and whereas your hard disk is where programs and files live permanently.
也许你知道电脑有一个,正在使用的程序和文件都暂时存放在那里,而且会加快电脑速度,而硬盘是程序和文件,永久存储的地方。
"That's been my mantra all season, just enjoy the ride. Mainly partly because of knowing this is probably my last competitive season, and then maybe for missing out in 2006, you know I really wanted to savor every moment in this."
VOA: standard.2010.02.26
Flannery O'Connor, as most of you probably know, is a Southern writer.
正如大家所知,弗兰纳里,奥康纳是个南方作家。
Let me start by--the way-- the kind of institution that you probably know relatively little about -or commercial real estate.
首先我要,讲一种,你们不太熟悉的金融机构,或者叫商业地产
Many of you probably know that Aristotle has a treatise called De Interpretatione.
你们也许知道,亚里士多德有部著作叫《解释篇》
Each of you probably know, some of you may be in this category yourself, people who can eat like crazy and still not gain weight.
你们每个人可能都知道,你们中有些人是那种,怎么吃都不会发胖的人
Here is the pitch in--of--a string an octave higher so you can see it this way. As you probably know, if you take a long string and pluck it, it's going to take that long string a long time to pass that sort of cycle, if you will, just one pass through that cycle.
这也是个音高,一个高八度的音弦,你可以这样这样看 你们可能知道,如果你拨动长弦,长弦要经过很长时间,才能完成一个震动周期,如果你想,可以尝试下
Well, probably you want to know some of it but you might not want to know all of it right?
可能你只希望知道其中一些,而不想全部都知道
.." So I probably have, you guys are in your 20s-- ... you know 20-- roughly another 60 years are going."
所以我大概还剩下,你们都是二十几岁-,二十岁-,那大概还剩下60年“
Because you can hire someone who is a software engineer and he's been doing it for 10 years and if they're doing it for 10 years that's probably what they're doing for their life, you know, and I mean that's cool.
你可以聘用一名,有着十年工作经验的软件工程师,如果他已经在这行业,待了十年了,那么可能这辈子他都会干这行,这样不错。
I know that many of you have probably read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig Robert M. Pirsig.
很多人可能读过《万里任禅游》,作者。
Now, there's something you do that's so obvious you probably don't even know you're doing it.
现在,你做了件你自己都未必意识到的,超级无聊的事情
You guys probably know that too from your days at the daycare, but I want to derive the formula and put it up, then we'll see how to use it.
你们可能从幼儿园起就已经知道这个式子了,但是我想重新推导一遍,再来看如何进行运用
The more, you know, noes you get, then you're probably going to get a yes any, sometime soon.
你得到的“不”越多,你就会得到“是”了,有时候这很快就会发生。
So in Europe, it's probably like, I don't know, if you want to go into culture and stuff,
所以在欧洲,恐怕就是,说不清,如果你想深入探究文化,
This is the Frost that you probably know, as if he were born with white hair, right?
这个你们也许知道,好像他天生就有白头发,对吧?
So as some of you probably know, Yale is undergoing an open education project and they're videoing several classes, and the idea of this, is to make educational materials available beyond the walls of Yale.
可能你们已经知道了,耶鲁大学正在开展一个教育项目,我们在录制一些课程的录像,这样做的目的是让,耶鲁外的人也能享受到这些教学资源
Like the sun, it was thought to be a perfect heavenly body and, as you probably know, it was Galileo though -the Tuscan artist, the Italian astronomer 0 -who disproved just that assumption in 1610 when he published the Sidereus Nuncius .
正如太阳那样,它被认为是完美的天体,也是伽利略,-那个托斯卡纳大师,意大利的天文学家,-他驳斥了1610年的假设0,在他出版的那本中。
And that's, you know, saying a lot of words, let's do an example because it's probably easiest to see this by looking at a specific example.
因为可能看一个特定的,例子更容易明白些,那么这里是我要,以它开始的一个例子,假设我要写一个。
Egyptian stuff and Greek stuff is, you know, without parallel, really, probably anywhere in the world.
埃及和希腊的东西,世界其他任何一个地方都没有类似的。
And, that's a good thing to know because if you come out with an answer that's somewhere near the diameter of the universe and it's supposed to be the diameter of an atom, then you will know that you probably made a mistake.
这是我们需要知道的,因为当你做一道题得到的答案,是宇宙的直径,而正确答案是原子直径时,你能很快发现你的错误。
I don't know if you can see, probably not, what's written on here, so let me point out to you a few things.
我不知道大家是否知道,这很可能不是其中的一种,那么让我来为大家指出一些事实。
But as you probably know, a JPEG, a photograph, these are usually multiple megabytes these days which means there's a ridiculous amount of data still on that digital camera.
但是你知道,一个JPEG图片,通常是由几兆字节组成的,也就是说这些数据的大部分,仍然存在于数码相机中。
The industry, subprime lending, has grown dramatically over the last ten years and, as you probably know, it's in big trouble now.
次级借贷行业,在近10年里迅猛发展,你们大概也知道,这个行业现在正处于巨大的困境中
Now in music as you probably know-- we've already talked a little bit about this-- we have the importance of the beat.
你们也许知道在音乐中节拍很重要,我们已经讨论过一些,节拍的问题
First is the body mass index, you're going to see this a lot and you--some of you probably know about it already because it's out there in the popular literature.
首先是体重指数,我们会经常碰到这个概念,你们也许已经知道这个概念了,它经常在科普读物中出现
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