You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

We cannot do anything about protons, they are buried in the nucleus, but we can add or subtract electrons.

我们不能改变质子，它们埋藏在原子核内，但是我们能够增加或减少电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But you cannot leave the city without going to Golden Gate Park and going to California Academy of Sciences.

金门公园和加州科学院是非去不可的。

关于旧金山的博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

He's saying they're doing great work but they forget this one little thing: you cannot reconcile rhetoric and grammar.

他说的是，他们做得非常好,但是他们忘记了一个小问题，修辞和语法是不可能和解的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the researchers point out that their results are limited to Scottish records and cannot be generalized to all women.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

We are bodies in motion, and who cannot help but obey the law or the physics of attraction and repulsion.

我们处在运动状态，这是无法控制的，只有遵循规律,或者引力和斥力的规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She may work with cowboys, but she says that does not mean she cannot make something more feminine once in a while.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

I cannot draw it that well, but imagine bringing the second point closer and closer to the first one.

我不能很好地把它画出来,但是你们可以想象,当第二个点,越来越靠近第一个点时

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But he said he found it difficult to perform because Porgy has a bad leg and cannot walk.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

But there is nothing saying you cannot take magnesium and mix it with oxygen and make magnesium oxide.

同样的道理，如果将镁,与氧一起反应，就会得到氧化镁。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I have gotten things from far-off places like Africa and Asia, but I cannot get the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Harmony is indeed invisible in sense Number 1, you cannot see it with your eyes, but for all that, it can be destroyed.

和声用无形的第一种解读方式理解，确实是无形的，你看不见它，但是它可以毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A poster said: "You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by vouchsafed by anyone but God."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Hopefully within two years, probably not next year, but within two years, there will be positive psychology class offered, but I certainly cannot guarantee it.

但愿两年内，明年可能性不大，但是两年内，学校会再次开设积极心理学课程，但我无法保证。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We cannot confirm those ideas. But we can tell you that people have been growing chilies for centuries, and there are many kinds.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Man can embody truth but cannot know it."

人可以表现他不理解的真理“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But now if a farmer cannot get to the slaughterhouse, the slaughterhouse may come to the farmer.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"This labor not only takes lower wages,but accepts a standard of living so low that the American working man cannot compete with it."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Now let's just say something now, which I'll probably forget to say in any other moment of the class, but today it's relevant. Game Theory, me, professors at Yale, cannot tell you what your payoff should be.

这里我们要解释一下,我差点就忘记说了,博弈论,还有我 耶鲁大学教授,无法说出你的收益应该是什么样的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But many who have seen the parks we have described today say that such pictures cannot really capture the huge, beautiful areas of land.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

But there is one thing, Descartes concluded, that he cannot doubt, and the answer is he cannot doubt that he is himself thinking.

但笛卡尔认为,有一点是他无法置疑的,那就是,他无法怀疑自我思考的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it."

VOA: special.2009.04.11

But through technique alone to the extensity even existence cannot be found alone There isn't any or many or much meaning maybe limited cases I don't care.

当时仅仅通过技术,连存在都难以实现,如果这样,有技术也没有什么意义了,或许我举的例子不多。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It finds nothing. The pig starts to walk away, but it cannot move its feet.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

There were words in there--they said something--of course, we cannot guarantee that they won't go up in value but historically they have always done it or something like that.

他们在文中吹嘘...当然,我们不能保证金币不会升值,但金币的历史行情趋势始终向上

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it also can be so severe that a person cannot live a normal life.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Okay, good. So in Gmail context most of you know, you cannot--you can delete things but most people just save or archive emails.

好，在Gmail中，大多数人都知道，你能删除邮件,但是大多数人会选择保存或者存档邮件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But also unlike n, l cannot have just any value, we can't go into infinity.

但不像n，l，不能取所有整数，不能到正无穷。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选