It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

And part of this is happening because of the development of all these wireless networks, miniaturization, things moving online.

部分原因是,无线网络的发展，微型化的发展。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

You just keep, you know. If you understand what's happening with the plot and you are enjoying the plot

你只要坚持看。如果你看懂了剧情，你就享受剧情好了，

要想成为读书达人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Someone with his head in the clouds is a person whose mind is not on what is happening in real life.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It was a place for people to sing about social injustices as well as what was happening on the streets.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

So, just looking at putting in the electrons, filling up the energy diagram here, we should be able to see a little bit why this is happening.

那么，仅仅通过观察这些电子的位置，在能级图上如何填充，我们应该就可以看出一点端倪。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

In fact, you'll find the probability of this happening 3% is only about 3 percent, of it happening just by accident.

实际上你会发现,出现这种情况的概率是，所以说他们的实验结果完全是偶然的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is still happening today. Small birds and animals still become trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

What's happening there? Well, the selection of reactants has been done judiciously to provide either heat or to provide something that's cool.

就会感到这东西，比如说变冷了，对吧？,这里发生了什么？这些反应物都是,被仔细的选出来的，能够提供热量或制冷。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It is that time of year again. Warm weather means outdoor music festivals and one of the biggest is happening right now.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Through Yeats's poem, Easter, 1916 goes on happening, happening in a sense in and even to us.

通过叶芝的这首诗，1916年复活节起义之事，就好像在我们眼前发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Bio-markers help researchers know what is happening in the bodies of people with a disease or medical condition.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Part of it is, it takes me an hour and half to settle myself down enough, that I'm actually paying attention and, be more aware of what happening.

每一次，都需要一个半小时,来让我的头脑镇静下来，然后我才能真正地集中注意，感受身边发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Edgar Allan Poe did something unusual for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to describe what was happening.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Or was it more the 1830s when you've got this booming cotton production happening finally in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana?

又或者是从18世纪30年代起,当阿拉巴马,密西西比和路易斯安那州,的棉花产量大范围高产时吗

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

represented a time of promise. "This could not be happening" was the sentiment expressed as a growing crowd gathered around that black-and-white TV set.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

What's happening right now in the United States - is that the economy is collapsing- maybe that's overstating it.

现如今在美国发生的是,经济正在崩溃-,也许这是夸大这件事。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This means to be interested in what is happening around you and what people are thinking.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

I would put them in my room and hang them all over the walls and just look at them and wonder what was happening at this particular intersection or in this area or how to get down this road most efficiently.

我会把它们放在我房间里,挂满整个墙,只是看着它们，想,这个十字路口发生了什么事,或是这个地区,怎样最快走到这条路。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

She loved finding interesting ways to use words to express what was happening in the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Similarly, it's not possible to picture or imagine what it's like to have fainted and be completely unconscious with nothing happening cognitively.

同样的，要想象,完全不省人事的昏迷,没有任何知觉的感觉也不可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It permitted them to sit at home and hear what was happening in other areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Machiavelli was a kind of political junkie, you could say, in things happening in Italy and else where.

马奇亚维利曾经几乎是政治弱能，可以这样说，关于发生于意大利及其它地方的事务。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

The Freudian would say that these processes are unconscious so of course you just don't know what's happening.

他会说，这些心理过程都是无意识的,所以你当然意识不到。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But the man who was closest to what was happening, Michael Collins, could only listen.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

What is happening is it turns out that putting the electrons in that lower energy state is stabilizing that molecule So that works.

发生的就是,把电子放在低能级状态,稳定了分子，因此这就行得通了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

You know my best way of measuring this is what's happening now is the contraction and money.

你们知道我评估的方式，就是看,合同订立和金钱投入。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选