American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Methane, there are certainly some solid bonds there, but breaking those to form CO2 and water, well it's worth it, right, energetically.

酒精中的确含有很强的化学键，但是打断这些化学键然后生成二氧化碳和水，从能量上来看是值得的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

and the cats were running out from under the bed and things breaking.

连猫也从床底下跑出来了，东西也被弄坏了。

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Jeff said it was a sad thing to think that they were the cause of the breaking of a woman's heart.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

And details aside,death is a matter of the body breaking, so that it's no longer able to engage in P-functioning.

除开其他细节，死亡只是肉体的破坏，以至于不能再实施人格功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Five men had been arrested after breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

So we can do this essentially for any atom we want, we just have more and more wave functions that we're breaking it up to as we get to more and more electrons.

所以我们基本上对，任何一个原子都可以这么做,我们仅仅会有越来越多的波函数,因为我们将它分为越来越多的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"So when I came out of the Army, I had already decided I wanted to be part of breaking down segregation.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

It's a way of breaking the code up into modules. Modules that makes sense on their own. Modules that we can reuse in multiple places. Modules that, if you like, Isolate components of the process.

能将代码分解为模块,模块能够独自运作,我们能在很多地方再利用这些模块,如果你喜欢的话，模块可以被看作是过程独立的组成部分。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Breaking down electronics into small parts for refiners to melt and purify is another part of the business.

VOA: special.2010.11.01

breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.

可能会损坏它，彻底的，回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Using a mortar and pestle, the fruits are slightly pounded to remove the shells from the fruits without breaking the seed inside."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

While the New Critics, in a variety of ways, insist that form is meaning, form is content and so on, they're still not really breaking down the distinction between form and content.

新批评主义者们认为，形式就是意义，形式就是内容，但是他们还是没有打破,形式和内容的区别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The twenty-one year-old throws a sharp breaking ball that cuts across the plate at the last second.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

And yet, their subconscious mind limited them, prevented them from breaking that barrier that happened to be not a physical barrier as doctors, physiologists and scientists had claimed.

然而他们的潜意识限制了他们，阻止他们突破界限,那不是医生，生理学家和科学家们声称的身体界限。

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Guinness officials may take more than a month to decide if they will accept a record-breaking attempt.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

The breaking of so much as a single law constitutes the essence of anarchy, constitutes the essence of lawlessness, it is a far-reaching argument for obedience to the law.

只要违反一条法律,即可构成失序的本体，混乱的本体，这是一个深远的申论,关于服从法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But twitterers also use the service to get quick answers to questions or to get breaking news.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Here, from the Austrian National library where I was last summer photographing and having a wonderful time, is the last page of the Mozart -that Mozart ever wrote here. This is the "Lacrimosa, " and sort of breaking off--and he doesn't finish this particular movement.

这些都来自于奥地利国家图书馆,就是去年夏天我拍照的地方,在那我度过了快乐的时光,这是莫扎特安魂曲的最后一页,他曾写在这上面,这是《落泪之日》,还是半成品,他没来得及完成这个特殊的乐章

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They were breaking with past traditions to create a new look for a new decade,the sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

If you multiply her, then you want to have as much depth to fill in behind to close that hole as you can, so that that would make your phalanx more sturdy, because you could take more casualties without breaking, that seems reasonable to me.

如果再多一些,你就需要在后面增加足够的排数,尽可能地填补缺口,这会使你的方阵固若金汤,即使伤亡惨重也不影响阵容的坚固,这在我看来是合理的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But first,a report on a new mystery novel that is breaking sales records in adult fiction.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

That would that would give rise to a perpetual motion machine, breaking of the second law. It can't happen.

否则就会使,得永动机出现，打破第二定律那是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Miz Hasan has worked to make the public aware of the dangers of the ship-breaking industry.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

If you get some of these in the upper atmosphere, a photon, an ultraviolet photon, has the energy capable of breaking this bond.

如果你把它放到大气层上，一个光子，一个紫外光光子，有能量可以破坏它的化学键。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Finally,after six years of back-breaking labor, the two work teams met in northern Utah.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." Said the other, "What is your name?"

那人说，“天黎明了，容我去吧，“但他说，“你不给我,祝福，我就不容你去，“那人说，“你名叫甚么？“他回“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In nineteen ninety-one, Carl Rowan wrote a book about his life called "Breaking Barriers."

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Now, we're going to go back to Roger Ibbotson at the School of Management. He did some path breaking work in terms of describing capital markets returns over reasonably long periods of time.

先讲回到管理学院的罗格·伊博森,所进行的开创性研究,描述了在相当长的时期内,资本市场的收益情况

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and breaking a sweat for 40 minutes, 60 minutes a day.

每天出汗40分钟或者60分钟。

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