He felt that such a meeting might seem to show that Clay was the real power in the new administration.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The literary creator starts to seem a lot more like the divine creator, that is to say, and in a certain sense could be understood as a placeholder for the divine creator.

这些作者越来越被神化了，换句话说，在一定意义上,就被理解为神圣造物主的预留的位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.

世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of so many people did not seem to make any difference to him.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

It's got to seem very mysterious to us.

这种想法简直是匪夷所思

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Off in the distance you see a valley way below and lines of bluish gray mountains that seem to reach forever.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Here it goes in the middle, and if you look carefully there, I didn't really make it clear enough, you can see, suddenly a strategy that looked crazy shooting to the middle, that suddenly started to seem okay.

这是中路射门的情况,如果你仔细看,我可能画的不是很清楚,你会发现曾经卖傻似的中路射门法,现在竟然一下子变成香饽饽了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Now that--If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause.

如果你只接触过英语,那么刚才的问题就看上去非常奇怪了,因为你在听我讲话,而你会在我所说的单词之间听到一个停顿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

These social supports may help explain why many women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The heroine of the mask, as you know, doesn't seem to have a Christian name. She's not Britney or Lindsay.

你们也知道《面具》里的女主角，似乎没有教名，她不是布兰妮或林赛。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The new health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, said the virus does not seem to be as severe as once thought.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It looks severely damaged. But the huge hole, the names and other marks seem to add to its sound.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

They seem to be designed less to recruit philosophers and potential philosophers than to shape and educate citizens and future statesmen.

它们看来较不像,要吸引哲学家,和潜在哲学家,反倒像是要形塑及教育公民,和未来的政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It says many seem to use them to live beyond their means -- to spend more than they have.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In just a moment the hearts are gonna start flowing from bottom to top and the cookies are gonna start moving left and right and they seem to be somewhat synchronized with the music, perhaps based on trial and error by the student who implemented this one.

刚刚那一刻，那些爱心们从底部上浮到顶部,饼干人则向左向右移动,它们似乎都随着音乐的律动而变化着，也许这是那个制作该动画的同学,不断尝试的结果。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In patients, the bodys natural defenses against disease seem to attack the person they are supposed to protect.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

And I'm going to do this because, as Professor Guttag noticed to me, students seem reluctant to do this.

另外一件十分有用的事情就是去模拟代码，我之所以要这么做，是因为Guttag教授，提醒过我，说学生们不是很情愿来做这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At first it might seem very unusual to see a natural form like a hill inside a museum.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Well, one of the things that they do when the Homeric heroes refer to their wives-- there are really only two places that they seem to be associated with.

其中一件荷马史诗的英雄提到的,他们的妻子所做的事--,似乎她们只过着两点一线的生活

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He didn't seem to need the money. He had many friends among the best families of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

This idea that no law can violate our right to life, liberty, and property would seem to support the idea of a government so limited that it would gladden the heart of the libertarian after all.

任何法律都不能侵犯生命自由和财产权的观点,似乎是支持“有限政府“这一观点的,这点无疑很讨自由主义者欢心。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If your friend does not seem to understand how painful your broken heart is, you may ask her to have a heart.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

And a lot of the strikes that you see in high schools and in-- I better get to my lecture,but-- you see in high schools and even in middle schools, have to do with the State,somebody saying, well we're going to take away two-hundred teachers in your department, or we're going to maintain a curriculum that doesn't seem to make any sense.

在高中里可以看到很多罢课,我最好回到正题,但还是再讲一点,在高中,甚至在初中有很多罢课,为了反对政府的某项规定,比如说要在这个系减少两百个教师,或者主张一份,完全不合理的课程安排

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

When the light shines just the right way, bronze squares in the doors seem to catch fire.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

But we're not asking, is it rational or irrational to not believe that your body's going to die, we're simply asking, noting the fact that, there to seem to be cases where people are surprised to discover that they're mortal.

但我们不是在探讨不相信肉体的死亡,是否合理，我们只是提出，人们发现，有人可能对发现自己将会死亡,感到非常出乎意料。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You could compare this poem to the poem placed last in Yeats's last poems called "Politics" that might seem to say something similar.

你们可以将这首诗与,叶芝诗篇的最后一首“政治“相比较“,它们可能会说一些相似的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选