They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

There's a lot of focus on like little motions that people do, like picking up cigarettes and dropping things.

有很多的焦点，像是人们的小动作，像是拿起香烟或放下东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

instead of just picking up a book and trying to learn English vocabulary and English grammar structures.

而不只是拿起书，努力学习英语单词和语法结构。

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He did this while picking crops in the fields and shining people's shoes to earn money to survive.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

The evolutionary model is, I think, responding to, and picking up on, the fact that in many respects, Yahweh resembles the gods of Israel's neighbors.

进化模型，我认为，回应了或者说挑选了这个事实，在很多方面，耶和华与以色列邻国的神灵相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

As the snow melted, workers were busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

I also have up on the website some questions that I asked investors about what they think about picking stocks.

我在网站上也上传了一些思考题,是我曾经问过一些投资者的问题,他们怎样挑选股票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that damages the plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

I'm not picking not just the current slice or the current stage of the car but the entire extended-through-time object.

我不是说它目前的样子,或者目前的阶段,而是说整个贯穿时间的物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Workers have been busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

You remember they're wandering around the forest without her picking berries. The younger brother, - the second brother, is most concerned about his sister's safety -- so I want you to look at this passage.

你们记得他们在树林中游荡,没有拿他们采摘的果子，小哥哥，也就是二哥哥，是最关心他妹妹安全的-,所以我想让你们看这篇文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But wait until the plants are completely dry before picking beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Bridget Barni is sitting in the dirt picking lettuce.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

There's the ladder to heaven in "After Apple-Picking."

在“摘完苹果“中有通向天堂的梯子“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"I was actually really lousy in science class." "So now I'm picking up the information as I can get it."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their natural right to life.

我想如果你把征兵制,视为政府挑选特定的个人去参战，那确实是对自然权利中生命权的侵犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Picking your child up out of a crib who's passed away, I mean,she was lifeless, and heavy,and limp.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

In terms of picking a Lewis structure that's going to be the lowest energy, what you want to do is put the atom with the lowest ionization energy in the center of your atom.

为了挑选一个具有,最低能量的路易斯结构，你需要把电离能最低的原子,放在最当中的位置。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Under weeping willows and oak trees, musicians gather to play bluegrass at a picking session in rural Cassia,Florida.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Science can be hands-on, you might be down at the lake picking up algae and studying them or something, that would be hands-on.

科学研究也是要动手的,你可能会到湖底,收集水藻并研究它们,这就是动手操作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

As a result, Mitra does not see gold demand picking up significantly in the next six months.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Prizes are given for planting the most trees and picking up the largest number of plastic bags.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

I was having trouble picking out the bass.

我有点找不到低音。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The researchers suspect that the newborn c-section babies might be picking up their generic bacteria mix from the air - one way bacteria gets on our skin.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

It's a matter of picking the right roles to go where I want to go.

这主要就是个选择正确的角色实现自己目标的问题。

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The picking machine alone guzzles down nearly 400 liters of fuel per day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The president would spend at least a half hour going over what happened overnight, what the intelligence community was picking up about threats to the country.

总统至少要花半个小时,来了解过去一晚发生的事情，了解情报局选取的,可能威胁国家的信息。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Just picking up on this ionization energy.

了解一下这个电离能就行了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选