He wanted to make an instrument that could play a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Yes,it was a clarinet up there,nice and high, and then another instrument came in with What instrument was that?

对，嘹亮的高音确实来自单簧管，紧接着另一个乐器加入了演奏,这是什么乐器？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

and they'll tell us about a problem they have. They'll have like an instrument. They're saying

他们会向我们讲述他们遇到的问题。他们会拿着一个仪器，然后说道，

MIT用数字说话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

As you might have guessed from his name, Harpo Marx was famous for playing the musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

All of the sounds are produced by the strings on the instrument and how the bow is pulled across the instrument.

所有声音都是靠乐器上的弦产生的,琴弓在乐器上来回滑动发声

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Then she discovered a set of old drums in her family's home and became interested in playing that instrument.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The similes are for him instrument in the poem's larger agenda to reinforce our faith in the coexistence of free will and divine providence -- difficult, huge concepts.

这些比喻在这首诗更深的议程中是作为工具,来深化我们对自由意志和神圣天命的共存,所持的信念--这是两个艰深宏大的概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

So even though it's invisible, you can destroy it by destroying the musical instrument on which it depends.

所以即使它是无形的,你可以通过毁掉它所依靠的乐器,来毁灭它。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

It's not me. I'm just an instrument of somebody else telling me what to do.

不是我的责任，我只是一个工具,我只是执行别人的命令。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

For those of you don't know what that is it's simply an instrument that counts radioactive particles in the air, and MIT now that you're at MIT, you'll all have a chance to see one first hand if you're ever in any of the labs, especially in the chemistry or bio labs.

不知道它是什么,它就是一个简单的,计算在空气中放射粒子数目的仪器,你们现在来了，如果你们在实验室里工作的话,尤其是化学和生物实验室，你们有很多机会亲手用到它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On an acoustic guitar, the strings vibrate and the hollow part of the instrument, or the sound box,also vibrates.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And not just a camera but there are also tools on the end of these things so you can cut and you can do manipulations through this instrument.

除了摄像头外,在关节镜的末端还有其他的器械,你可以体外操纵这些器械进行切割等操作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And we will report on the recovery of what archeologists are calling the oldest musical instrument ever found.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

We call an instrument of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity less than or equal to one year--we call that a bill and they used to be the only discount bonds issued by the U.S. Government.

我们把期限小于或等于一年的,国库券品种称为短期国库券,它们曾是美国政府,唯一发行的贴现债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?

不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说,运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

Mr. Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German instrument maker.

华伦海特先生，尼尔，加布里埃尔，华伦海特,是一位德国仪器制造师。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I lay awake nights, wishing to find the perfect lens an instrument of great magnifying power.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

So what is the authentic instrument to be used by the reader?

那么，读者真正可用的方法是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

From a distance the many wires look like the stringed musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

you make a little hole, and go in with an instrument instead of making an incision.

医生会先打开一个小孔，将仪器伸进去。而不是像以前一样做一个切口。

MIT用数字说话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A navigator also had to know how to use a complex instrument called a sextant.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Okay. Now we're going to go on and talk about a woodwind instrument here so Lynda, come on up.

好,我们继续,谈谈木管乐器,琳达请上来

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's quite spectacular because here in the 1890s we have the apex of the Western classical orchestra, this big, beautiful, powerful instrument.

它之所以雄壮因为在十九世纪九十年代,西方古典管风琴正处于顶峰,这是一种巨大,美丽,有力量的乐器

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选