If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money,for an object or service.

VOA: special.2011.06.19

Sometimes it's easier actually not touch it to the metal, -- I should have- TA: It's hard to see if it's moving or not.

有时候它更容易不接触金属，我本应该-,助教：很难看到它是否移动了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You're talking to your co-worker and your co-worker says "Oh, it's because you're so hard working."

你跟你的同事提到的时候，你的同事会说，“哦，这是因为你工作太卖力了。”

That's why 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Was the story hard to follow? Was it self-contradictory, and in what ways? Anything? Just don't even be polite, just throw it right out there. Yes?

有没有什么地方不连贯？或者自相矛盾？,有何矛盾？有吗？说出来，现在，在这里，好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The hard work of this grassroots effort resulted in the first Earth Day on April twenty-second, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Because it's hard when you go back being part of any group. Once you are in that group, and away from other people, it's very hard to remember We've talked that -Oh, have you?

因为如果你回到原来的群体中,就会变得难了，因为你只要一呆在那个群体中，远离其他人，就很难,我们聊过这个，-是吗？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is why it is hard to tell a powerful storm, Hurricane Andrew, caused severe damage to the area in nineteen ninety-two.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

And this is because as you start writing--saving files to your hard drive, what happens is you might save this file here, then this one, then this one, then this one, but very reasonably you might go back eventually and delete this one.

这是因为当你开始对硬盘驱动器进行读写时,你可以保存一个文件到磁盘的某处，然后再一个，再一个，又一个，最后你可能回到这,并删除这一个文件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money, for an object or service.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

And both sides, both North and South, in their political leadership, in their economic leadership, were led by hard-boiled, believing, practicing, capitalists.

而且南方和北方双方的,政治领导,和经济领袖,都是久经世故,信仰坚定的老练资本家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Betty Bonney sings about the way DiMaggio hit the ball very,very hard -- how he jolted it.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

It's post-Christian in the sense that it's hard to live in America without having some kind of exposure to Christianity and without seeing its influence on our society,on our politics, on our culture and our art,and that sort of thing.

一方面，生活在后基督教的美国不可能,不接触到基督教文化,不可能忽视它对社会，政治，文化，艺术等方面的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He led the team of scientists. They developed a new method of making maps of hard-to-reach areas.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Well--since I myself don't believe in souls, it's hard to surprise you to learn that I don't think the soul theory of personal identity is right.

因为我本身不相信灵魂的存在，所以你们肯定能想到,我认为人格同一性的灵魂论,不是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And he offers this advice once you have chosen the record you want to set: Train hard.Plan ahead.Be patient -- don't give up.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

And the question that preoccupies developmental psychologists is how do we come to have this knowledge, and in particular, how much of it is hard-wired, built-in, innate.

发展心理学家们所关心的问题,就是我们如何获得这些知识的,特别是,这其中有多少是固有的,内在的,天生的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said: "When I saw hard-working people suffering under debts, sickness and worries, I knew there was plenty to make up songs about."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

It is the case -- to introduce some jargon -- it is the case that the easy pass for the attacker, weakly dominates the hard pass for the attacker.

对入侵者来说,我们再词引入术语,对入侵者而言,平坦之途,弱优于崎岖之途

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That is,this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, that with enough determination and hard work that you can transcend limitations of money or class or gender.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Some customers want to use your safe because safes are hard and expensive to get and some -and then you've got all this gold, so you might as well lend it out.

顾客需要使用你的保险箱,因为对个人而言保险箱既昂贵又难以获得,这样你就拿到他们的金子,然后你可以把金子借出去

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We must not allow ideas like political correctness to divide us and cause us to reverse hard-won achievements in human rights and civil rights."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

I think that, in general, universities here are just looking for people who are intelligent and hard-working,

总的来说，我认为这里的大学希望招收聪明又刻苦的学生，

如果是在考虑留学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is when hard-working people can retire to a life of ease and fulfillment.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

But,it's hard,if you're fourty-seven years, your job is a pretender to the throne, it's difficult.He had a hard time getting around.

但是,如果你要花四十七年,去争夺王位,是很不容易的,他做得很艰苦

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"When babies are born, babies have an instinctive need, they're hard-wired to breastfeed.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

He points out that in the 1798 edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, biscuit worms had gotten into the hard-tack, so naturally, he says, "The particular kind of albatross that the mariner shot, I am told, makes a very tolerable broth."

他说在1798年版的《老水手之歌》,给信天翁的食物已然腐烂，所以他自然的认为，“水手们,杀死的信天翁，做成的汤味道不错“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Today,we will tell how some insects might prove useful against hard-to-fight diseases.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

He is teaching a kind of, we will find out, a kind of hard-headed realism Polemarchus that expresses disgust at Polemarchus' talk about loyalty and friendship and the like.

他教授一种，我们稍后会发现，一种冷静的现实主义,表达出对,忠诚与友谊之类谈话的厌恶。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选