Eric Calais,a geophysicist, says that sudden movement can follow a buildup of stress as adjacent plates struggle to move past each other.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

It's not something you're going to go back and remember it's an opposite side, it's an adjacent side.

不应该再去翻以前的课本,还去回忆哪个是对边,哪个是邻边

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So it's just a measure of how much does one given atom want to pull away electron density from, let's say, an adjacent atom.

因此，它就是度量一个给定原子有多么,想把电子密度拉过来，可以说，从相邻的一个原子那里。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The neighborhood were recruited from is adjacent to an interstate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Its direct relationship with the thing that's most closely adjacent to it somehow either through similarity or dissimilarity can never be a relationship of identity.

符号和实物之间的关系,即使是最接近的事物,是通过相似处和不同处建立的,但是这不是一种永恒的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The synapse is just this anatomical region of contact between two adjacent cells in the nervous system.

突触是解剖学上,神经系统相邻两细胞的连接区域

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You know that these molecules are also linked in another way, by the phosphate bonds that connect the 3 and the 5 carbons of adjacent nucleotides.

这些分子还通过别的方式连接在一起,例如通过相邻核苷酸的3碳位和,5碳位之间的磷酸键相连

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's this tube-like structure, which is made of many, many epithelial cells all directly adjacent to each other, is what separates the outside world from our internal bodies.

这些管状结构,也是由许许多多上皮细胞,互相连接而成的,它使体内和体外,区分开来

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选