Fears have been mounting that Venice could, in a matter of years, belong only to tourists.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

It was then in a matter of moments, that I decided that I had to find out why and become happier.

也就是在那时，我决定要找出原因，变得快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

and in the summer I go there a lot. As a matter of fact, I walk, you know like, the Harlem has a lot of hills.

而且，我经常在夏天的时候到河滨公园。哈莱姆有很多小山。

河滨公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But all that changed in a matter of minutes in the fall of 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

There just aren't pricing anomalies that are significant that are going to resolve themselves in a matter of months or weeks and so it's a silly game to play.

显著失常的定价,不会在短短几月或几周内,就在市场中显示出来,因此类似月进月出那些是一种愚蠢的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Military planners say a barrage of North Korean short range missiles and artillery could kill hundreds of thousands in the capital city,Seoul, in a matter of hours.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

It's not a question, in other words, of poetry or of a novel being somehow or another strictly a matter of poetic language.

毫无疑问，诗歌或小说是,诗化语言的严格体现。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Calves are roped and tied in a matter of seconds.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They increased in a matter of four years 29 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Okay, so 1 is a viable answer in some contacts that needs constant time, the same amount of time no matter what.

在需要常量时间的情况下,答案是1，不管怎样，总时间是,相同的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The new commander of U.S.forces there General Stanley McChrystal is expected to deliver his first formal assessment to the White House in a matter of weeks a report which is likely to fuel further discussions on troop levels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It was a matter of law. The law was contained in article four of the national constitution.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

And where we where at the start of the 20th Century in the late 1890's is that we were at a place where there was great confidence in our understanding of the universe, and our understanding of how all matter worked.

0世纪开始讲起,在19世纪的九十年代,人们对于自己,对自然的理解,对自然所有物质,如何工作的理解十分自信。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As a matter of fact, one of the major contributors to tuberculosis going up in several countries is because diabetes is going up -- and obesity.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

That's a really good question, and I'm talking in terms of generalities here but the specifics matter.

这是一个很好的问题,我在这里讨论的是普遍情况,但是还有一些比较特殊的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"And no matter where you are in the world, that is a very important thing, to be proud of who you are and be able to let people hear what you have to say, whether they like it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

But in fact, as a matter of logic, that doesn't follow at all.

但事实上，在逻辑学上，根本就不是那回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I am satisfied that a sentence of 15 years imprisonment is an appropriate sentence in the present matter."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

If you will buy stock in an electrical utility which has a guaranteed revenue stream, because no matter how bad the economy gets, a lot of people still use electricity, you don't expect it to fluctuate a lot.

如果你在有着,保障性年收入的电气供应股票投资，因为不管经济变得怎么查，人们还得用电，它不会降多少。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"There will be operation in this area. But it is now a matter of military judgment (of) what is the appropriate time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Many have become internally displaced. She says the situation of children in internment camps in Sri Lanka is a matter of real concern.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

You-- It's been a series of-- a huge controversy in the popular culture to the extent of which parents matter and this is an issue which will preoccupy us for much of the course.

你,有一系列的,关于父母在多大程度上起作用,在流行文化里是有很大争议的,我们将会在这门课里用很多的时间,来讲这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

How the government uses this revenue is a matter of debate in the parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

But the point is Reagan supported that effort and that made all the difference, and it took a lot of courage Reagan was going to take the recession in 1982 He was willing to support Volker no matter what to get the inflation down ... Alright, so... Interest rates in the summer of 1980 were quite high Yes, they were.

但是，里根力挺了这次货币改革,这才是重点，下这样的决心不容易,里根本打算在1982年来狠抓经济衰退2,他很信任沃尔克,为了降低通胀率，可以不惜一切代价,好吧，那么。,1980年夏天，银行利率已经相当高了,没错，确实如此。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But just what constitutes torture has been a matter of debate in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Poetry, in Frost, is action, not a matter, as Wordsworth would say, of emotion recollected in tranquility.

就像华兹华斯说的诗歌对于弗罗斯特是动作不是事情，不是冷静时收集的情绪。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Mark has a skill which, a number of skills, which one rarely sees in an entrepreneur no matter what the age is.

马克有一些技巧，很难在其他企业家身上,发现这种特质。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选