One friend said: "Margaret Mead was not going to let a little thing like death stop her."

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Well, innovation is a process, not a thing, with a company like ours.

对我们这样的公司来说，创新是过程而非结果。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Well, not everybody, but everybody can use to keep emails safe, just like sort of a really easy thing to do.

嗯，不一定是所有人，但是每个人都可以轻而易举地用这种密码来保证自己邮箱的安全，

积极参与俱乐部活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On the other hand,she says, having to go elsewhere for activities is not necessarily a bad thing.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

De Man does not believe this. De Man thinks, on the contrary, that there is such a thing as literariness.

德曼不相信这个，反之，他认为，有书面性这种东西存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Another thing to keep in mind is that not all students pay a school's "published price."

VOA: special.2010.04.08

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To hear an oriole sing May be a common thing Or only a divine It is not the bird Who sings the same unheard, As unto crowd.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And it's--you might think, " "All right. The life of a waiter is not the worst thing in the world."

而这时，你可能会想，“好吧，侍应生的生活又不是这世上最坏的事情“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Combinations of drugs are able to suppress the deadly virus in the body -- if not a cure, in the traditional sense but the next best thing.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"I had not eaten a thing since the day before.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

So this, where we start at zero is not a node, is the first thing to point out.

零点不是节点，这是第一个要指出来的，当我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But anyway,this enters into a kind of gamesmanship operation which is not always the kind of thing you want to see,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

So obviously, not a good thing, but amazingly easy to fall into this trap.

天呐，他真棒，所以很明显，这不是一件好事，但是很容易上当。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Another thing is that the customers do not want to take a cyclo with an old man like him driving.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But what she's working off of here— we're not going to listen to the whole thing-- is this idea of a blues scale.

但她处理这段曲子的方法,我们不是要全部听完,是布鲁斯音阶的理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But some say the convergence of popular culture into one giant venue is not such a bad thing.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Here the unique thing was that there's a restriction site inside that is present in normal DNA and not present in sickle DNA.

刚才例子中,特性就是在正常的基因中,有酶切位点,而在患者的基因中却没有

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"That's not the only thing you've outgrown." Worst of all,to his beloved Fiona, he is a complete stranger.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

It was not of a brutal despotic ruler, because they didn't have any such thing.

并非是一个暴政野蛮的独裁者,因为他们从来没有过这样的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's certainly not a nice moment. It is not a gentlemanly thing to do to steal the spotlight from all of his peers."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Things started to change probably on the first day of class, but not entirely-- because there's shopping period and it's such a wonderful thing-- you shop for classes.

事情也许从开课第一天就发生变化，但没有完全不同-,因为这是购物期，妙不可言的阶段-,你们选择课程。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"I think most moms are level-headed and realize that that is not a good thing to do.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Basically,what the consumer notices is that prices had gone up. That obviously is not a good thing.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Yet somehow it was transformed into, what it's turned into, a beautiful thing, although not without pain. -Yes.

但您的一生却，得以转化成另外一种美，尽管伴随着苦痛，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Dr.Damiano says the system is not a cure, but it is the next best thing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

That's such a great encapsulation of not caring about any specific thing, but still being incredibly invested.

这是一个多么好的不关心任何具体事的伪装，但小说里后来也被这一点所笼罩。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm not aware that there is such a thing as Southern art," Said Shelby, "At least not if you're defining it by technique.

我并没有意识到,还有以南方为流派的艺术",谢尔比说,"至少没有从艺术技巧方面区分的流派

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选