A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But which I think despite the fact that there may be points of contact between the spiritual aspects of making art and clearly religion, I think it's a rather unnecessary demand to make of a piece of art.

不过我认为，虽然,艺术创作的精神层面和宗教,很明显有一些共同之处，但并没有必要,对艺术作和宗教一样的要求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When she was about four years old, she heard her mother struggling to play a piece of music on the piano.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

It's a piece of language but it also belongs to other sorts of semiotic systems as we'll immediately see.

它是一种语言,它属于一个特殊的语义系统,下面我来解释一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

This decision is also hard to make because when you are a backend technology provider, it's like selling a piece of commodity.

之所以这是一个困难的决定还因为,当作为后台技术提供商时，就像出售一件商品似的。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

The Raptorex Kriegsteini reportedly was discovered inside a single piece of rock in the Inner Mongolia area of China.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

We want to write a piece of code that helps these guys out, so I'm going to show you an example.

通过写一段代码,来解决一个这样的问题，接下来让我们来看个例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Every time a woman lost a round of the fighting, she had to take a piece of clothing off.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

It's called Death and Transfiguration, and I hear this as a companion piece, a kind of pendant to the Zarathustra.

这首曲子名叫死亡与净化,我听说它是查拉图斯特拉的姊妹篇,某种对查拉图斯特拉的补充

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I've always been told that any serious introduction to political philosophy has to start with a big piece of Plato.

我一向听说,任何严谨的政治哲学导论,都要从大量的引介柏拉图开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

If you have a piece of scrap paper with you, suppose that you've started your program as follows.

如果你有一张废弃的纸张，假如你已经开始了以下的问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

We will probably doing it on a big piece of drawn paper so you can see it and I will have him script the words.

我们将在一张大的绘图纸上,写下这些内容以便你们看得更清,并让他把内容整合一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

You can put your hands through a hole in a clear, plastic box and hold the huge piece of gold.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

And so in the case of A Mask here, it's the Lord John Egerton, the Earl of Bridgewater who commissioned Milton to write a piece honoring his own inauguration in his new role as the Lord President of Wales.

所以在《面具》这个例子中，是贵族约翰埃杰顿，布里奇沃特伯爵,指派弥尔顿去写一篇文章,来歌颂他掌管威尔士的就职典礼的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Smithsonian's Mars Day offered a chance for people of all ages to touch Mars, or at least a piece of it.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And then you get that sort of lyrical moment of interpretation: "He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him."

然后你就能看到那句抒情的解释：,“他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Visitors to Mars Day crowded around a piece of the meteorite in the huge Milestones of Flight Gallery.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And starting this morning i got from my wife a little piece of jade and I have been sort of in touch with my fun side.

于是今天早上我从妻子那里拿了一块玛瑙,到现在为止，我的心情都还挺不错的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

And she's flying over the ocean, except she's really a piece of spaghetti."

她正跃过海洋,但是她其实只是根意大利面条

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The researchers left a piece of paper on the handlebars of the bicycles while their owners were away.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the most famous music videos ever on MTV was a fourteen minute piece from Michael Jackson.

VOA: special.2011.08.05

So it is a very thin and quick move, one on a second, by which I mean that one electrode, one set of neurons is the a very important piece of the puzzle, but not all that you need.

所以说，这是一个非常细微而迅速的动作，一秒钟一次，我是说一个电极，一组电极对于去猜整个谜很重要，但是你需要的远不止这些。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!

人类是一件多么了不起的杰作，多么高贵的理性，多么无穷的力量，多么优雅的仪表,多么端庄的举止，行为像天使，智慧像天神！

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选