One council diplomat said Lebanon could prove to be something of a wild card on Middle East issues particularly Iran's nuclear ambitions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

There seems to have been something of a kind of outcry about the style of Paradise Lost. Look at page 210 in the Hughes.

当时人们对《失乐园》的格式,似乎有过强烈反对，翻到休斯版的210页。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And Deuteronomy is also something of a loyalty oath, except that the people are pledging their loyalty to a god rather than to a human king.

申命记也是一种忠诚试验，虽然人们是,对神宣誓他们的忠诚而不是对一个人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Hello. I'm afraid your hunting activitieshave caused something of a mess for us.

VOA: standard.other

So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I think,in very general terms, in the last year or two, that the strident public criticism and denunciation rom the outside has also been a factor and has in my view has been something of a mistake,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

However, and this is what I want to emphasize throughout our reading of Hobbes, he has always been something of a paradox to his readers.

然而，在阅读霍布斯的著作时,我想强调的是，对于他的读者来说,他一直是一种悖论。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So when I had a handful of these cases, it seemed to me then there was likely something worth investigating.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Since it's available only to accredited investors, you can't be advertising because everyone would see it; that's why the financing of a lot of this real estate is something of a mystery, because they can't talk openly about it.

由于DPP仅仅面向可信投资者,如果做广告的话,便人尽皆知,这就是为什么很多商业地产的金融活动,那么神秘,原因就是,人们不能公开谈论它

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says big coffee sellers like Starbucks help his business by building a base of customers who want something better.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

I hope you've gotten something out of this on a way to increase calm, equanimity and connection to the world around you.

希望你从中能有所得,能变得更平和，更镇定,增强与周围世界的联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

So writing out electron configurations I realize is something that a lot of you had experience many of you are very comfortable doing it, especially for the more straightforward atoms.

所以我认为写出电子构型是,你们大多数在高中,你们大多数可能都非常熟练做出它，特别是对于更为简单的原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But someone who hit a home run or hit it out of the park did something extremely well.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

He's willing to acknowledge that there's always something of me in my interpretation, but it's a good something because after all I am mindful of the horizon of otherness.

他愿意承认,在解读中总是带有“我“的成分，但这些成分是好的,因为“我“毕竟是留心差异性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Edgar Allan Poe did something unusual for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to describe what was happening.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Being a person is something you can go through for a period of time and cease to be.

作为人的存在是可以经历一段时间然后停止的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Those two earthquakes really opened up a lot of new research on something called soil liquefaction,in particular.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

I tell you something about the second derivative of a function and ask you what is the function.

我告诉你一个函数的二阶导数,然后问你这个函数是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

So I would choose something that have a wave lines off You wouldn't measure the dimension of a human hair with a yardstick, so I need something on this order.

所以我会选些东西,你将不会用一个码尺去量,人的头发有多大，所以我需要一些这个级数上的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So this type of product is just, they're a treat, they're something very,very special to be savored."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Then we can take this and turn it into something a lot more complex with -singing a lot of lines going their own way.

接下来我们可以,弄得更复杂一些,同时让许多乐句单独进行

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Part of the poem's force derives from the status of this moment as something remembered, and remembered within the context of a nation at war.

诗歌的一部分力量来源于,事情被记起那一刻的状态，并且是在国家处于战争时期的情况下记起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So it's a different class of resource not as easy to develop, and not even recognized as something worth pursuing, say,twenty years ago."

VOA: special.2009.10.23

When we see that, when we look on the web, we see that expression of both a hope for something better that the web seems to represent for them and we see that sense of furious anxiety about what school classroom actually means to these kids.

当我们认真看那些网站的时候，我们看到了这样一种表达,希望更好的生活,仿佛只有网络能够提供给他们,同时我们还看到了那种狂躁不安,困惑于到底学校的课堂对这些孩子们意味什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In fact, there's evidence that even thousands of years ago, Indian and Chinese healers were using a form of something that we would recognize as vaccination.

事实上,有证据表明在几千年前,印度和中国的医生就在使用一种,类似于疫苗的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选