The students were asked to write down five words they might say after hitting their finger with a hammer.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

So finger-pointing at the start of each list, 6 is indeed less than 8 so I'm gonna write it down first.

手指指向列表的开始，6肯定比,8小，我先把它写下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, the receptionist sees you, tapping your finger and starting to give her looks.

这时，前台的姑娘看到你不耐烦地敲打着手指，不停地抬头看她。

I don't care课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

One of the perhaps easiest ones to put your finger on is what if the computer is out of memory?

一个可能的情况是,计算机的内存不足？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I know this is so, because when I put my small finger in front of the moon, my fingernail covers it."

VOA: special.2009.03.28

He was motionless, all but for one finger that moved up and down in front of his face as if he were marking time with it.

他一动也不动，除了一根手指在他的面前上下摆动,好像在用它标记时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

If the dyke goes--here's the image of the Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke.

如果堤坝垮了,这张图片就是一个男孩指着堤坝

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Harpers Ferry was built on a narrow finger of land where the Shenandoah River flowed into the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

We could begin to put a certain amount of pressure on the text and possibly, as I say, - begin to do things with it which are kind of a five-finger exercise-- -- we'll be doing a lot more of that sort of thing--but which might work.

开始时我们应该对文本抱有一定的怀疑,就像我说的，用一种五指练习法来做-,以后我们会大量涉及到这种练习。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, for example,just tied finger length to success in financial trading.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

You can certainly beat this with a ticking of finger typing.

当然你用手指敲击一下就可以。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

She uses both hands to finger-tap on the flat narrow part of the guitar called the fretboard.

VOA: special.2011.01.28

You see a bleep going across the screen to indicate that they've got their finger on the pulse of what's happening, or you see it in TV shows like ER.

你们看到一个亮点在屏幕上来回跳动,来显示病人脉搏的,跳动情况,就像在急诊室的故事,这类电视中看到的那样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Honeoye is among what are considered the 6 minor Finger Lakes in central and western New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A two thousand seven British study showed that finger length might help predict test results among schoolchildren.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But you can't put your finger on what the source of that confrontation was.

但是你还是搞不明白为什么她老是要跟你对着干。

I don't know 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And another British study reported last year that people whose index finger is shorter than their ring finger are at higher risk of osteoarthritis.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But you're not sure what it is, you can't put your finger on it.

你不清楚那是什么，你不能确定。

What kind of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The longer the ring finger and the shorter the index finger, the greater the testosterone exposure.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

She measured the distance between the bones in the finger, because when we get older, the space becomes smaller-- they become tighter.

她测量指骨间的距离，人越老，骨骼间空隙变得越小-,指骨变得更紧。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A way to know how much is to compare their ring finger to their index finger.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

The reason it printed that is I accidentally had my finger on the control key, which said print the last thing you had.

这是正确显示的，原因是刚才,我不小心按住ctrl键了，也就是这会显示你最后写的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He would move along the finger of land between the York River and the James River.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

It's funny when I e-mail people. I have one finger, you know.

我给别人发电子邮件很可笑。我用一根手指打字，你知道。

现在的孩子好可怕 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Climbers often need to lock their bodies to the rock with one small finger hold.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

I still have to do this process and here is where the finger thing gets a little more useful 'cause I have longer lists.

我仍需要进行这一步骤,在这儿手指的方法就比较有用，因为,列表比之前的要长。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That's the finger thing from left finger to right finger going back and forth across the board, never touching a number more than once.

在合并时，我的左手手指,和右手手指来回地在黑板上移动，但对每个数字只会碰到一次。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选