Huck's heart leads him to do the right thing, even when everything he has been taught tells him it is wrong.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

De Man does not believe this. De Man thinks, on the contrary, that there is such a thing as literariness.

德曼不相信这个，反之，他认为，有书面性这种东西存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, if this thing is going to vibrate for any length of time it better be a standing wave.

好的，如果它在任意时间振动,那它就是驻波。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"The thing about poets," he says, "is they like to stay up and talk until about four in the morning.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Your first thing is responsibility to fulfill your rights to your people, to your culture, to your family, to your government.

你的首要任务是履行义务而不是行使权利,对人民，对文化圈，对家庭，对政府都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"So,I'm also now a wilderness EMT so it's totally a good thing to have when you're out rock climbing."

VOA: special.2009.12.09

What would he say?" And I said, "That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing.

看他怎么说“，我说“你想知道的最后这件事没法知道，卡洛，没人能知道的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But if irrigation fails, the best thing to do is to go to a health careprovider for professional assistance.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Think about that. That says, if this thing has some particular value, I want to do one thing; otherwise, I want to do something different.

考虑考虑，这意味着，如果这个事情有一些特殊的值，我就去做一件事情;,否则的话，我就会去做另外一件事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Pieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate anymore.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Suppose we conjecture that the only thing intrinsically valuable is pleasure and the only thing intrinsically bad is pain.

假设我们推测出唯一,拥有固有价值的东西是快乐,唯一一样自身是坏的东西是痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The important thing,says one expert, is to find the right tree for the right place for the right use.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

That's sort of what that's like, but the really important thing is what's the worst thing that can happen.

这和我们说的有点相像，但是真正重要的事情是,可能发生的最坏的事情是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mister Bandelier saw the ruins of the ancient pueblo or village and said "This is the grandest thing I ever saw."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Well, the assignment operator makes a copy of the thing on the right and puts it in the thing on the left.

赋值操作符把右边的东西,复制到左边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But counterfeit drugs may contain too much, too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

One other thing I think that's really, maybe it's a small thing, there's one other glaring thing here.

我还有个想法,虽然有点无关紧要,但也是显而易见的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Police say one thing that makes discussion of this law difficult is that many critics have not read the law.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

Regardless of what we think of the success of that example or of the appeal of the attempt to do such a thing, the amazing thing, I think, is that Milton felt so empowered even to embark on such an enormous project.

他的重建是否成功了我们姑且不论,也不说我们对他的这个雄心作何看法，我认为，不可思议的是，米尔顿觉得自己是如此有力量,他甚至真的开始了这样一项宏大的工程。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Second thing, most important thing for doing well in physics, is to do the homework.

接下来,学好物理最重要的就是,完成作业

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"People made friends more. I noticed that people would sit with strangers and have conversations, so that was a great thing.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

It is not easy to say,what is the right thing,or what is the wrong thing.

我们不能简单地说,什么是对的,什么是错的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She had been addressing Christmas cards, and the only thing that came to her mind was 'Merry' as in Merry Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

With a lot of morally intuitive appeal, Bentham's idea is the following, the right thing to do; the just thing to do is to maximize utility.

充满了道德上的直观感染力，其观点如下，正确的选择，公正的选择,就是最大化功利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Yeah, they had this thing-- they hit this thing called the octave.

是的,他们有这个,他们碰到了这个叫做八度的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选