I looked hard at him. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon, or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

If markets were perfectly efficient, David Swensen could not have done what he did.

假设市场完全有效,大卫·斯文森就不可能有现在的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Or you could also use the "I have" pattern negatively to show that you do not possess something.

当然，你也可以用“I have”句型的否定形式来表示你并没有某些东西。

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I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

Things could not have set about signifying progressively.

东西不可能慢慢的找到自己的代表。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You see,the doctor had told her mother that she could not have any more children.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He tells VOA that the natural disaster could not have happened at a worse time for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

And if you could change the gene and make people not gay in the womb should have been done.

如果人们能够改变这种基因,让同性恋们在母体内就改变性取向,那么这种认定就应该进行。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The anti-corruption group Transparency International says more than 30 Bongo family properties in France worth nearly $200 million could not have been purchased on his state salary alone.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

But, of course, what you saw in recitation, and hopefully, what you can now think very quickly by looking at this, is that this is not the only configuration of pi bonds that we could have in benzene.

当然，你们在习题课看到过，你们通过看这个可以很快的想到，这不是苯环里,唯一的π键构型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

By the way, Mr. Newton did not have math guys he could go to.

顺便说一下,牛顿先生可没有数学外援

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He told Sinn that his men could have killed unarmed men and women, but did not do so.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

So they have to be engineered to be inert so that they can be safely inside a system and there's not every material you could pick would have that property.

缝合线必须是惰性的,以便确保植入人体后的安全性,不是随便哪个材料都能做到这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They could better handle hot,dry climates because they do not have a lot of wool.

VOA: special.2009.08.03

You could have a corpse, and that's clearly not a person.

一具尸体显然不是一个人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The doctor's lawyer told investigators that Murray did not give Jackson any medication that could have caused his death.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

There's some space up in heaven where all the unborn babies are that will live in the future and, unfortunately, they're not able to have a town meeting; but, let's suppose they could.

想象一下在天堂的某处,所有尚未出生但即将诞生的小婴儿们在那儿，可惜的是，他们开不了人民大会吧;,不过，我们假设这能成真。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Prosecutors said Saturday they have begun a criminal investigation that could result in terrorism charges, but did not identify suspects.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

I don't think so. I would rather have a system personally that I could give money to exactly those sections of the government I support and not just blanket support of it.

应该不会，我个人更希望有个机制,让我能把钱给那些我所支持的个别部门,而不是给所有政府部门。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But,other countries have not. Critics of Mr.Obama's plan say not returning to the Moon could jeopardize America's leadership in space exploration.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

If Skinner kept the focus on rats and pigeons and dogs, he would not have the impact that he did but he argued that you could extend all of these notions to humans and to human behavior.

如果斯金纳只是研究老鼠鸽子或是狗，他就不会拥有如此巨大的有影响力了,但他宣称，这些概念是可以应用到,人类以及人类行为中去的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But,Ervin says, (OMITTED) "We could not complete that assessment at this point because we don't have sufficient evidence."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The thing is still not dominated and we could still have done exactly the same analysis, and actually you can see I'm not very far off in the numbers I made up, but things are not perfectly symmetric.

这虽然不能成为劣势策略,但我们还是能得出一样的分析结果,实际上这和我编的数字相差也不是很远,凡事并不总是绝对对称的嘛

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But,they also are most likely not to have the information they need that could save their lives.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

> So now that might not have felt like the fastest algorithm but think about what you could have done with that algorithm in each iteration, much like the phonebook up front here, you literally split that problem in two because on each iteration roughly half of you were sitting down and then another half and then another half.

虽然这并不是最快的算法,但如果把这种算法每次迭代,就像刚才查电话簿一样，你便将这个问题一分为二了,因为每一次迭代后只有一半坐下来,以此类推。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

One can assume safely that Aristotle would have received tenure in any number of departments at Yale, whereas Socrates could not have applied to have been a teaching assistant.

你可以放心的认定,亚里士多德将可以,在耶鲁任何部门得到终身教授职，但苏格拉底却可能,连个教学助理的位置都申请不到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If he could show us, he could convince us that harmony is not really invisible, then we would no longer have a counterexample to the claim that the invisible can't be destroyed.

如果他可以说服我们,和声并非无形，那我们就没有了,灵魂不可毁灭,这一论断的反例。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选