The Syrians straddle the fence between the order of conservative nations on the one hand and this alliance with Iran on the other and it would make perfect sense for Bashar al-Assad to pose as the mediator with the Iranians, which means: hey,if you folks think I'm bad, think of the Iranians,they're much worse, but I have credit in their bank and I can deal with the Iranians."

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The Framingham Study was perfect for that because you had these bi-annual assessments.

弗明汉研究数据对我们的研究很有帮助,除了每两年一次的评估数据

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Can you recommend a perfect place for single men and women?

你能给单身男女推荐个好地方吗？

圣莫妮卡和洛杉矶 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Let me disclaim, too, we're by no means perfect so the Harvard courses APP that a lot of you used on the web to shop for courses, we recently sent out a form to get feedback from everyone because we don't doubt that it was imperfect the first time around, but we're going to iterate and make amends with that.

我不是说，我不是说要完美,你们大部分使用哈佛大学课程APP来在网上选课,我们最近给你们发了一个表单，从你们那里,得到反馈，因为我不怀疑,第一次时它是有瑕疵的,但是我们将反复地道歉。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选