Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the run-up to the start of the Iraq war in 2003 through the conflict and its aftermath.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And what I am going to do is say start with this ion, add up the energy associated with the interactions between that ion and everybody else in the row and then multiply it by Avogadro's number, because that is the number of atoms there are in a row.

接下来我要从这一离子开始，加上相互作用的能量，也就是这一离子,和其它所有在这一行的离子之间的能量,再乘以阿伏加德罗常数，因为这是在一行的原子的数量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Unless we reconstruct and maintain the international financial system, if countries start doing it bilaterally instead of multilaterally, the system will fall apart and we will end up in a depression,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

We start at this lower energy state and go up that means we need to absorb a photon, we have to take in energy.

我们从一个低能级开始，到一个高能级去,这意味着需要吸收一个光子，我们要获得能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On a 9.6-hectare tract of land . on the Texas coast south of Houston, a start-up company from Florida called Algenol, in partnership with the Dow Chemical company, plans to build more than 3,000 bioreactors,starting next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

And I've highlighted in blue up there one of the pieces I'm going to start with.

我已经把要开始的那一部分,用蓝色标注了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But others are not giving up. In September, one of India's best known filmmakers, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, will start shooting in the United States for an English language film called Broken Horses, also aimed at global audiences.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Of course you will notice some of the continents are painted incorrect, 'cause when they got paint in their hands, they start painting areas that should be water lands or lands that ended up to be water.

你肯定会发现,有些大陆画得不够准确，因为他们拿起刷子后，就会把,海洋画成陆地,而把陆地画成海洋。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He's also decided to give up leadership in Light up the World Foundation to start a company in India that will develop a more energy-efficient and cheaper lighting system that he hopes will bring even more light to the world's poor.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The causal paths that result in death may start different, but I presume that they converge and you end up having a set of events take place.

不同的手段导致死亡的方式不同,但是我认为有一点是相同的,你的死亡伴随着这一系列的事情发生

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I served as Master of Silliman College for six years and during that time I would get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and start working.

我在西利曼学院当了六年院长,那时我会在早上五点或五点半起床,并开始工作

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Well this is leading up to why I want to gather things together in classes to start with.

收集起来的话题了,在Python中这么输入,然后得到值是完全合法的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选