This included a plow that could break up the grassland of the plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So, you could break even if you were very clever about it, and that's pretty neat.

所以如果你非常聪明,你就能做到“保本“,这听起来似乎很棒。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

None,however,could break through the terrible sadness that seemed to follow him everywhere.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

But you could imagine that communication could break down here.

不过也可能有沟通失败的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"You don't have to do all of your exercise in one setting. You could break a 30 minute per day recommendation into three 10 minute bouts of exercise."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

What's the point of this? Again, now that I can think about things recursively, I can similarly break things down into simpler versions of the same problem. It could be one version.

这些的意思是什么呢？再一次我想说,我既然能够以递归的方式思考了,那么我就可以简单地把问题,转化为更简单的同类问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She and Union Station decided to take a break from recording so that she could rest and recover.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Farmers could not plant crops, because they had no seed and no animals to break the ground.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

When you're all out of specific cases and you want to handle everything else, you literally say "default:" And here I could end the program with break, but it's kind of unnecessary because once I'm at the bottom of the curly braces, that's it.

当它不在你列出的所有情况中,为了处理其他的情况，你可以用“default：“,这里我可以用break来终止这段代码，但是它是有点,不必要的，因为我已经在这个花括号的,底部了，就这样了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He could fall off and break a leg or arm.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

And you know, you could have a reversible engine with lots and lots of steps, but you could always break them down into some sequence of adiabatic and isothermal steps.

你们知道，我们可以设计一个由，很多很多个,循环步骤的热机，但是总可以把它分割成,一系列的绝热,和等温过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But they could not break through the Union line.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

The Union army could not break through.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Mr.Obama accused Republicans of playing politics with the issue, after at least one opposition senator said failure to pass health reform could "break" the president.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Yvo de Boer,the U.N.'s top climate change official, told delegates there was still time to break deadlocks, but he said countries that could be more ambitious should act now.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"People who have paid among them more than $100 hundred dollars right now are going, 'Oh for crying out loud!'" Garfield says they could eventually break their ties to golf's golden boy, while Woods takes his break from the sport.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16