The weight of the snow caused tree limbs to snap and roofs to collapse.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.

这意味着，我们默认，有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And this is line 679: Why should you be so cruel to yourself, And to those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?

在第679行：，你为什么要对自己那么残忍，对于大自然赋予我们的四肢,只文雅的使用和温和的对待佳肴？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"We believe that we saved many lives and repaired to function many limbs."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

So there will be--just I can have artificial hearts, artificial limbs, artificial brains which will get imprinted with the same personality.

我可以装上,人工心脏，人工四肢，人工大脑,在大脑里装入,同样的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

My name is Forrest.Forrest Gump. This is cunning Carla and long-limbs Lenore.

VOA: standard.other

You remember, thalidomide is the drug which was actually really most used as sleeping aid that when pregnant women took were shown to produce deformities, children who were born without limbs for example.

你应该知道这种药品,实际上它是用来辅助睡眠的,但是，如果孕妇吃了这种药,就可能造成胎儿畸形，可能生出来的婴儿是没有四肢的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild.

这是天国的本分，我们的本分,喃喃念着一个个名字，像一个母亲叫着她的孩子们,当睡意最终降临,那跑野了的四肢。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

People are always losing a wooden leg and having parts of their limbs fall off.

人们不是丢失了一条木腿,就是缺胳膊少腿的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In fact, he noticed that madmen sometimes believe they have extra limbs or they believe they're of different sizes and shapes than they really are.

事实上他注意到,疯子有时会相信自己有额外的四肢,或者相信他们的大小与形状,是与实际不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"What is life but a motion of the limbs?

除了四肢的运动，生命为何物？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You can see this region here is going to develop into one of the upper limbs, the arms here and the back is different from the front, the spinal cord is developing in the back, whereas, the structures that become our intestinal tract is developing on the other surface.

你能看到这个区域,将会发育成为上肢,这里是手臂,而且身体前后也有不同,脊椎正在后背发育,另外,会成为我们肠管的结构,也在另一个表面发育着

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We banned that drug and I haven't heard anybody saying that that was a wrong decision, that we should allow pregnant women who want to sleep better to take a drug that will mean their children are born without limbs.

我们禁止了这种药物的使用，但我们从未听说,有人认为这是个错误的决定，也从未有人说，我们应该允许,失眠的孕妇使用这种药品,即使她们的孩子可能从出生就没有四肢。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Like Isis, whom we saw piecing together the body of Osiris, or like the sad friends of Truth picking up the torn limbs of that beautiful virgin, we are left to cull out and sort asunder the confused seeds of good and evil.

像伊西斯，我们看到的拼凑欧西里斯身体的女人，或是真理的悲伤的朋友找寻被撕碎的美丽纯洁的真理的肢体,我们被留下来做出选择对错和,把善恶迷惑的种子分离出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They don't have joints and limbs or organs or flesh.

他们没有关节四肢，器官血肉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

See the merry limbs in hot Highland fling Because some wizard vermin Charmed from the quiet this revel When our ears were half lulled By the dark music Blown from Sleep's trumpet.

看那在苏格兰高地舞欢快的四肢,因为一些男巫,神往陶醉于这狂欢中,当我们的耳朵半听着,在黑暗音乐边的是小号的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Your limbs will pull back even if your head is gone.

即使已经被斩首了,四肢也依然会回缩

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选