"We aren't that small because we couldn't be bigger. We're that small because we think we educate much more effectively and much more powerfully because we stay small.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, this allows us to try to go back and explain some phenomena that over the years, mounting evidence was building that couldn't be explained.

好了，这个可以使得我们,返回去然后去解释一些，以前逐年积累的未能解释的现象,我们下节课将讨论。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They never said you can't do it because you're a woman, so it never occurred to me that I couldn't do it" But she says things are starting to look better for women composers.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

To suggest that that couldn't be relevant evidence is like saying I can't tell you anything interesting about what's going on in the hallway right now, because after all I'm not in the hallway; I'm here in the lecture hall.

要说这些都是不相干的经验,就好比说我现在不能告诉你,走廊上发生了什么,毕竟我不在走廊上,我在教室里面

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We honor women who refused to listen to those who would say that you couldn't or shouldn't pursue your dreams."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

These mortgages were given out to people that couldn't afford them and today you have what you call subprime mortgages--subprime paper They issued against this paper stuff called mortgage-backed security. They securitized them and these things are all floating around now.

我们发放这些抵押贷款给那些买不起房子的人,所以现在你们看到了一种你们叫做,次级抵押贷款的金融工具--次贷票据,他们把这种票据叫做,有抵押证券，他们把有抵押证券证券化,这些证券现在在市场上被多次交易，广为流通。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And then he got so far ahead of me that I couldn't see him anymore. Then I looked at the clock and it said 19.19.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

they just couldn't believe that Somebody would doall that running for no particular reason.

VOA: standard.other

The risk tolerance curve for the tens of thousands of people that we needed to hire, you just couldn't quite get them.

由于风险承担曲线，我们需要雇佣数万名员工,但是却，雇不到。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"And he was devastated that all the money in the world couldn't save his son, and therefore,for his son, he was going to save other lives."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Now the subject matter that he's chosen for this poem, for this so-called first poem, couldn't possibly be more appropriate.

现在他选这首诗的主题很重要，这所谓第一首诗可能不太恰当。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Another time,I was running along. Somebody who'd lost all his moneyin the T-shirt business, he wanted to put my faceon a T-shirt, but he couldn't draw that well, and he didn't have a camera.

VOA: standard.other

Then I found that I couldn't find anyone in China because nobody at that time really focused on technology.

结果在中国没有人符合要求,因为那是没人致力于技术研究。

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

So, that was more like solving chess puzzles, and I couldn't have seen a career on that.

所以这一切更像是解一个棋局，我原来从不认为哲学可以成为一种职业。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This machinery is so precise that a human hair couldn't even pass between the heads and spinning platters, yet it all works in terrific speeds.

这些设备是很紧密的以至于人的头发,都不能在头和旋转的磁盘之间通过，尽管如此，它的运行速度非常快。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But what's interesting with these cases is you couldn't have predicted ahead of time that they would be heroes.

但这些例子所表明的就是,你不可能提前预知,他们会成为英雄

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, you couldn't introduce the live virus in because that would cause the disease not just immunity.

所以 不可以直接接种活体病毒,因为这会使人致病而不仅是引起免疫应答

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And when he looked at her, he was so overwhelmed with emotion and sadness that he couldn't find her, that he began to cry.

当他看着她时，他被激动之情和悲伤淹没,因为他找不到她，于是他开始哭泣。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For example, by the way, the compulsion to repeat nasty episodes, - to revisit trauma, and to repeat the unpleasurable-- well, that could just be called masochism, couldn't it?

举个例子，强迫性地重复那些凶的片段，去重温创伤，重复不愉快-,不正是一种性虐待吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He had these odd kind of facial ticks that he couldn't really help at all.

他的脸部会不自觉地抽搐,完全无法控制

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Who's to say they couldn't eat of that and just live forever?

有谁说过不要吃生命树，吃了便能长生不老？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But you agree that there is no reason why somebody else couldn't come along and say, "You know what, I want to use a different set of axes.

但是你们得认识到,没有人会站出来说,"我想要用一套不同的坐标系

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I couldn't begin to do that. How much can I hear?

我根本无从下手,我能记住多少

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well, in fact, the Corinthians send very little, send a couple of ships and a general, which turn out to be tremendously important, but they couldn't have known that in advance.

实际上,当时科林斯的支援非常有限,只派遣了两只船和一个常规军,最后这支援变得极为重要,远远超出了他们的预期

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And intuitively, it seems plausible to many people that you couldn't have free will and be subject to determinism.

从直觉上讲,对于很多人来说,你不可能既有自由意志又服从于决定论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选