Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

We also, therefore, have no sense that God is imminent in nature or tied to natural substances or phenomena.

我们也不知道自然中神灵将要诞生,或者是与某些自然物质及自然现象有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One sign of hope is a new way to make the natural defenses of mosquitoes resistant to the Plasmodium parasite.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The line of demarcation therefore between the divine and the natural And human worlds would appear to be clear.

那么神圣与自然的界限,以及与人类世界的界线就很清楚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I'd worked on other film festivals, one on cultural diversity at the Natural History Museum in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Natural language, speech, and voice are going to be fundamental to the changing UI, and we have to invest.

自然语言，演说，声音对于改变用户界面来说是最基本的，必须得到投资和发展。

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

About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

What we define as zero is the enthalpy of every element in its natural state at room temperature and ambient pressure.

我们将零点定义为每种元素,在室温和正常大气压下,在其自然状态下的焓。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Back then,there was much hope that humans would return soon and make a home on Earth's only natural satellite.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

And in fact, Skinner explicitly made the analogy from the natural selection of species to the natural selection of behavior.

实际上，斯金纳也确实明确地,对物种的自然选择,同行为的自然选择进行过类比。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And she explains the theory of evolution through natural selection in a way that both children and adults will enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Hobbes insists on the fundamental equality of human beings, who he says are endowed with certain natural and inalienable rights.

霍布斯认为，人类应该是,基本平等的，他认为人类天生就被赋予了,一些自然和不可剥夺的权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"It's pretty natural. You kind of learn from each other, mom and baby, how it's all going to work.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Another example is in the nervous system, patients that have Parkinson's disease have too little of a natural ligand called dopamine.

另一个例子有关神经系统,帕金森氏病的患者,缺乏一种叫做多巴胺的天然的配体

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The pistons go up and down as a person stands on lever devices treadles and uses a natural walking motion.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A natural person refers to a human being, so it's $5 million for natural persons and $25 million for institutions.

一个自然人指一个人,一个自然人需要500万美元,而一个机构则需要2500万美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

George Burgess leads the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

But then, it seems that property, what counts as property is not natural but conventional defined by the government.

但然后，他的意思似乎是如何界定财产权,不是与生俱来而是约定俗成的，是由政府定义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Buckminster Fuller said humans are able, through planning and wise use of natural supplies, to feed and house themselves forever.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Well, that may seem to be the most natural way to define death, but it's not an acceptable approach.

这似乎是定义死亡的最自然的方式，但并不是可以接受的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

So,Once they are lost in response to a toxic sound or to an antibiotic it cannot be regenerated by natural means.

一旦因噪音或抗生素遭受损失,就难以再生。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It is housed at the Carnegie Museum, which has both an art museum and a museum of natural history.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Doctor Spock said his work was an effort to help parents trust their own natural abilities in caring for their children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Well the cockroach is pretty much its natural state and you have all the ingredients in the other food.

而蟑螂则保持了自然形态,奇多的所有配料

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

These pictures show young readers what led Darwin to form his great discovery: the evolution of species through natural selection.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

First, in the first eight stanzas you have Milton describing the scene of the Nativity and the effect that the birth of this new infant has on the natural world.

第一部分，前八行,弥尔顿描述了基督降生的景象,还有这个新生婴儿对现实世界的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选