"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Milton wants to write an epic that in some ways comes before, or prevents, the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿想写一首在某种程度上先于，荷马和维吉尔伟大史诗的史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

OK, so now we've got, taken an electron from that sulfur, put it here, an electron from that sulfur, put it here.

现在我们得到的是，从硫那儿得到一个电子，放在这儿，一来自于硫的电子，放在这儿。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

She and her sister started an organization that provides money to young African women who want to study science.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

To enter God's realm requires imitation of God or imitatio dei, right, an idea that I put up here, imitatio dei: imitation of god.

要进入上帝的界域就必须模仿上帝，哪怕一点，在这里我给出一个观点：模仿上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And there was an idea that we exercised with the phonebook which was this notion of dividing and conquering.

我们在进行电话簿实验时用到了一种思想,它就是划分和征服。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He said slavery had not tied the states of the Union together, but had always been an issue that divided them.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

So what I want to point out is that it creates an effect that is exactly opposite of a bond.

我要指出的是,它造成的效果和成键正好相反。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It was an experience that began with a few simple words: "I am going around the world on a motorcycle."

VOA: special.2009.01.14

If so, then from an evolutionary standpoint any kindness towards an animal that an animal shows towards another animal--is a mystery.

如果这样，从进化论观点看,任何对动物善意行为,一个动物对另一个动物，是个谜团。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

That's an idea that struck people intuitively at various times in history, but they didn't know how to do these calculations.

在历史上,人们很多次,直觉地感知到了这一点,但是他们不知道怎么去计算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In any case, nineteen eighty-three was the year Ahmet Ertegun set out to establish an organization that became the foundation.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The proper way to draw a vector is to draw an arrow that's got a beginning and it's got an end.

画矢量的正确方法是,画一个有起点和终点的箭头

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It also used the trail to take control of an area that is now New Mexico and part of California.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Freedom was a kind of an accident that came about because the usual ways of doing things were not possible.

自由的产生和发展是非常偶然的,因为照正常发展是不可能出现的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But salinity is actually an important parameter that gives us an indication of what might be going on."

VOA: special.2011.06.22

And, sad to say, at least one of our tests produced an output that we were unhappy with.

很不幸的是，至少一个测试输出我们,是不满意的，它花费了太长时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If someone offers me an amount that is close to my selling price, I might say the amount is in the ballpark.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

There is in us at least an element that is free, independent, serving nothing, autonomous.

我们的人性中至少还有一种元素，它是自由的，独立的，而且不依据其他事物存在而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"This is obviously welcome news and an affirmation that this recession is abating and the steps we've taken have made a difference.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

You don't have to do it in the paper, but it should be an argument that has something to say back to those obvious things.

你们不需要在论文里这样做，但是争论中应该,存在一些东西是关于那些明显的事情的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

But you do have the ability to affect public policy to an extent that it will be sensitive to the needs and issues of Muslims face.

不过你却有能力,在一定程度上影响国家政策,使其对穆斯林的需求与问题更加敏感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In two thousand seven he produced an album that mixes the speeches of African leaders with African MCs.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

They could keep for themselves the prestigious title of "chaste" even though they were obviously performing an act that almost anyone in an earlier period would assume disqualified them from being called chaste.

他们可以为自己享有这有声望的“贞节“称号“,尽管很显然他们所表现的行为,几乎早期的任何人都会认为,那是没有资格被称为贞节的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He also invented the Skyhook, an air rescue system that involved an airplane and a large helium balloon.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

We're familiar with polymers, plastics in our daily life; the chairs that you're sitting on are made of a kind of a plastic polymer that is basically an organic chemical that is cross-linked together.

我们应该很熟悉聚合物,比如日常生活中的塑料就是,你们坐的椅子,就是由一种塑料聚合物构成,它由基本的有机化学物质交联在一起

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Although this is a form of an argument that Plato does put forward in other dialogues as well, and so it strikes me so there's at least some reason to think this is an argument that he felt might well be right.

由于这个型相的论点,柏拉图在其他的对话录里也提到过,所以这令我觉得他可能,觉得这个论点可以成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选