And the other part about it is if feathers were twice as heavy, or half as strong, then birds couldn't fly."

VOA: special.2010.06.01

It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You know, I couldn't invite a hundred people and buy them all shoes, you know, to my daughter's birthday party, so

我不会请一百个人来参加我女儿的生日聚会，还给他们每人买双鞋，所以，

富家孩子的生日 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Paul couldn't sleep. He sat on the floor and stared into the darkness until morning came.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"We aren't that small because we couldn't be bigger. We're that small because we think we educate much more effectively and much more powerfully because we stay small.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He said: "I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it."

VOA: special.2009.05.03

And intuitively, it seems plausible to many people that you couldn't have free will and be subject to determinism.

从直觉上讲,对于很多人来说,你不可能既有自由意志又服从于决定论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It's nothing," he said, but he couldn't stop coughing.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

I think you may have defined it already, but I couldn't find a definition of strictly in the book we have.

我想你之前已经定义过了,但是我在课本里没有找到,“严格”的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She started having health issues. She couldn't sleep.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

fillet de cheval r?ti, you couldn't do much with horse ice-cream, so it sort of trailed by the end.

马肉片,你不能对马肉冰激凌指望太多,所以就有些虎头蛇尾了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They never said you can't do it because you're a woman, so it never occurred to me that I couldn't do it" But she says things are starting to look better for women composers.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I couldn't believe my eyes.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

This is how Dean talks at the very end: He couldn't talk anymore. He hopped and laughed.

这就是最后迪安讲的话：,他一边走，一边笑。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We put our best foot forward tonight." "We couldn't put the puck in the net, but we are proud of ourselves.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

He could have worked on a ranch out in the West, couldn't he?This looks like branding things,don't they?

在西部他可以在一个大农场工作，难道不可以吗，这个看上去,像是在印商标，是吧？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We honor women who refused to listen to those who would say that you couldn't or shouldn't pursue your dreams."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The third teaching fellow couldn't make it today, his name is Michael Look and I'll introduce him to you when he's available.

第三位助教今天没有来,他叫迈克?鲁克,他来的时候我会将他介绍给大家

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

You couldn't go anywhere without seeing people who nature had given, in many ways, a very bad deal along with crushing poverty.

在俄国的任何一个角落,你都会看到极端贫苦造成的自然生理缺陷

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Thirteen year old Roberto Castrodad from Puerto Rico couldn't overcome his fear of heights, but he says he's not deterred.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

It couldn't have been a very complicated algorithm because it basically paired people up randomly on the campus.

这个算法不是很复杂,基本上是给校园里的人随机配对。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a song Slaid wanted to put on his last CD, Unsung,but he just couldn't get the right sound until now.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All heat couldn't get successfully converted into work That would be desirable, but it's not possible.

都变成功,把全部热量变成功是非常令人期待的，但是这是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选