The goal with the new rickshaw is to increase the number of trips per day that the pullers can make.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

So we see that I've doubled the size of the vector but I've much more than doubled the number of calls.

所以我们看到我,把向量的大小翻倍了,但是我调用的次数,不仅仅是翻倍了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And so when we say something is exponential, we're talking about in terms of the number of bits required to represent it.

所以当我们说某些东西，是指数增长的我们指的,就是代表它的比特数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At the end of five weeks, the school was too small for the number of children who wanted to attend.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

And we can calculate that with the formula that we used, which was just n minus l minus 1 equals the number of nodes.

这个我们可以用我们以前用过的那个公式来计算，也就是节点数等于ｎ减去ｌ减去１

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It will do that,he says, by reducing the cost of computers and increasing the number of people who search the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Look at line number four, which is so clearly -- simply by looking at this, you can tell it's deficient in the number of syllables.

看第四行，显而易见--单单看一眼,就能看出它的音节数不够。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Ecuadorian government has tried to enforce severe limits on the number of Ecuadorians who move to the islands.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Now, to get to the number of neutrons, what we do is go up here to the upper left.

现在，看看中子数，我们要做的，是看到这左上方。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In the United States alone, the number of infections in hospitals is estimated at close to two million each year.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The thing I always liked, Sal, about the Plains Indians, was the way they always got s'danged embarrassed after they boasted the number of scalps they got.

萨尔，我总喜欢大草原印第安人的一点，就是他们在吹嘘自己得了多少头皮之后,总会难堪。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The census form asks ten questions, including the number of people living in each house, their ethnic group and race.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

So, one simple way to code intensity is the number of neurons firing; the more neurons the more intense.

影响反应强度的一个简单因素,就是产生神经冲动的神经元数量,神经元越多,反应强度越大

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As a result,there is a reduction in the number of nodes,or joints, that produce groups of flowers along stems.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

If the company increases the number of shares through a split that is not dilution because it doesn't really mean anything.

如果公司通过股票分割来增加总股数,这不是摊薄,因为没有发生实质性变化

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Without new treatments, the WHO said, the number of new cancer patients could increase to 27 million a year by 2030.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

For the simple reason that the number of possible chess games is so huge, that computers can't calculate it.

原因很简单,棋局的潜在变数相当之大,以至于计算机根本无法将其完全计算出来

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

When you look at a food label like this, first it shows you the number of servings on containers.

这是一个食品标签的样例,首先可以了解到整个包装内所含食物份数

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Yet the International Shark Attack File reports that the number of shark attacks has, in fact,decreased in recent years.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

And it turns out that simply by counting the number of those spikes that occurs at a period of time.

随后，只要数一数在一定时间内,产生的尖峰脉冲的数量。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The number of Washingtonians grew about three percent during that period while the United States population increased more than seven percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

I once counted the number of times he used the word the letter--O--in that poem, and I quit counting.

我曾经数过他到底在诗里用了多少个"啊",最后我放弃了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The number of Japanese students in the United States decreased for the fourth year, to just over twenty-nine thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

I'll count up the number of people killed in every church that I go to visit to look at.

每次我去一个教堂里,我都会数当地记录的阵亡人数

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But Michael O'Donnell says the number of serious bird strike incidents has remained at or below two hundred each year.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

For instance in the past, we had that silly little program for computing the average of some quizzes and it was actually a pretty bad implementation because I had essentially hard coded in the number of quizzes.

比如在以前，我们做了一个,计算平均数的程序,这是一个相当挫的实现,因为我硬编码了测试的数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For example,a two thousand four study showed that the number of school nurses nationally failed to meet federal guidelines.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

If you have the number of moles and two intensive variables, then you know everything there is to know about the system.

如果你有摩尔数,和两个强度量，你就能知道关于这个系统的一切,关于系统的平衡态的一切。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You have to make every single detail perfect and you have to limit the number of details.

就是让每个细节都很完美,你必须要限制细节的数量。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选