That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

I think this is probably a size of lumber, but you can't get away from the mythology of that number.

我想这可能是木材的一种规格，但是你不得不去想,这数字中的神话意味。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

putting it with regular clothes to make it dressed down. But you can dress it up with heels.

跟日常的衣服搭在一起，显得随意一点。不过，你可以搭双高跟鞋。

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He said life is sometimes really hard, but you can make it a lot better if you try to prepare for it.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

It looks like we're cut off the screen a little bit here, but you can see I've just circled it there.

看起来我们屏幕的边缘部分有些没显示，但是大家可以看到我刚才把它圈出来了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

My answer is, you can't change one but you can create a new one that is almost like the old one but different in a little bit.

既然你不能改变元组,你可以新建一个跟原来的元组,大体上一致但有细微差别的元组。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

East Asians commonly have "dry" earwax.z But you can have too much of a good thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.

你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But you can use a swab or cloth to clean the outer part of the ear.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

You can kind of see where the syntax is going, looks like a loop, but you can kind of put blocks inside of you, and the little arrow suggests that once you get to the bottom just like our socks example, you're gonna do the following again.

从某种程度上你可以看到它的语法构成,像个循环，你也可以把，一些程序块放到循环中，如同短袜的例子，这个小箭头暗示你一旦到达底部,你将会重复接下来的事情。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She talks very quickly, but you can sense the energy behind her performance.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

There were some problems with that deal and I just give you one news report on that, but you can follow it if you're interested.

那项交易里存在很多问题,而我仅仅给了你一段关于它新闻报道,不过如果你对此感兴趣你可以去追查一下

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But you can see this kind of show daily at the Fringe.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Okay. Obviously, this is the bar of syncopation-- we did this in section last week-- but you can see this note is the syncopated note.

显然,这个小节里包含了切分节奏,上周的课我们提到过,我们看到这个音符是切分音符

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's so true it's like the wind. You cannot see it, but you can feel it."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

We haven't said much about how to measure it, but you can measure it.

我们并没有说太多关于怎么测它，但是你能测它。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But one day you go to the store and discover that the price is more than you can pay.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

We don't even want to see those but you can have fun with that.

也不想看到,但是你们可以弄着玩。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Get it down," he said. "Take chances.It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything good."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

But you can ask, "Why is it giving me a second solution?"

但你可能会问,为什么会得到两个解

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"My World 2.0" includes a lot of slow,romantic songs, but here is one you can dance to, "Somebody to Love."

VOA: special.2010.04.30

But you can also have an incredibly bad return.

但你也有可能获得糟糕得难以置信的回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But to really experience this ocean world, you can enter a tunnel and watch the fish swimming above you.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Revenues minus costs makes profits, and again, for those of you who are less familiar with economics, I'm hoping this is not really too hard but you can read up on it.

收入减去成本就是利润,对经济学不太了解的同学,我觉得这个很简单,你们都能听懂吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Also,you can monkey around when you feel like doing something, but have no firm idea of what to do.

VOA: special.2011.03.13

So, maybe you wanted a really fine pot of the kind you used to be able to walk to the corner and pick up at a pottery shop, but you can't get now, so you would want to buy what the Corinthians sell. Guess what?

所以或许过去在大街的,任意一间陶器店里,你都能找到精致的陶盆,现在却找不着,那么你该选择,科林斯人的哪些商品呢,想想看

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

If you want to go live in the state of nature, that's fine, but you can't take anything from the government because by the government's terms, which are the only terms under which you can enter the agreement, say that you have to pay taxes to take those things.

如果你想生活在自然状态下，没问题，但你就不能享受任何政府福利了,因为根据政府组建条款，也是我们同意组建政府的唯一条款，规定只有你缴税了才能享受那些福利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But you can choose what type of Science you want to take here. You can choose electives.

但你可以选择你想上的科学课的类型。你可以选择选修课。

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