One of the men turned to another and ordered: "Go in there,Stumpy,and see what you can do."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So this gene is going to be turned on in the sheep when it makes milk, under conditions where it makes milk.

这段基因会被激活,这段基因会在羊制造乳汁时被激活

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Some turned violent. In the North, a political party was created to oppose the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

It would make the several thousands social psychologists in this world very happy and proud of their field, if that turned out to be true.

世界上成千上万的社会心理学家,都将十分高兴，并且为自己的学科领域感到自豪，如果这点能成为现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

After the passage is over, Milton addresses Alpheus, a river god -the god who was noted for plunging the course of his river underground in order to chase the nymph Arethuse who had been turned into a fountain.

这段结束后，弥尔顿引用了河神阿尔甫斯,那位因私底下掀起河流的波浪而闻名的神,以此来与被变成海底之泉的女神阿托瑞萨相互融合。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

It turned out to be kind of wrong because in the 1880s they started building so many houses in response to the demand that there was eventually a crash; but somehow people got this idea at some time.

结果证明这错了,因为在19世纪80年代,为迎合需求,他们建造了很多房屋,结果却崩溃了,但不知为何,人们有时就是会突发奇想

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Yukon River turned to ice.Winter in this area was extremely cold.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She turned it in her tiny hands and began to eat.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Now we know so much about these, they've turned out to be so useful in biotechnology.

现在我们对限制性内切酶了解这么深入,它们在生物技术方面又这么有用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Later in his life, Borlaug turned his attention to Africa.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

One of the things that estrogen does when cells are exposed to estrogen is that certain genes get turned on that weren't turned on in the estrogen-free state.

雌激素的功能是,当细胞所处环境中有雌激素时,一些在雌激素不存在的条件下,无法表达基因就能够表达

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This area turned out to be very rich in fossils.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

But variola, which causes smallpox in humans, and vaccinia, which causes a disease called cowpox in cattle, turned out to be, we now know, viruses that are molecularly very similar.

但是导致天花的人痘病毒,和导致牛痘,的牛痘病毒,后来发现其实是,我们现在知道,这两种病毒在分子水平上十分相似

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

She turned to singing in her teens, and later won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

One of the real surprising findings in my field over the last ten/twenty years has been that the acquisition of sign languages has turned out to be almost exactly the same; in fact, as far as we know, exactly the same as the acquisition of spoken languages.

过去的十到二十年间,在我的研究领域里最令人吃惊的发现之一就是,各种手语的获得过程,被证明几乎是完全相同的,实际上据我所知,和口语语言的获得过程是完全相同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He was turned over to the Iraqi authorities and then handed over to the British embassy in the Iraqi capital.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

But what happens when hospitals have been washed away by floods or turned to rubble in an earthquake?

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

They are also questioning the legality of Mr.Taylor being turned over to the court after he was granted political asylum in Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

At one such meeting on Tuesday morning in Pennsylvania, Senator Arlen Spector - a Republican, recently-turned-Democrat came face-to-face with a screaming protester.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

He turned to jazz in high school, and later earned a music degree from North Texas State University.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

As the tournament was kicking off, thousands of football fans turned out in Johannesburg to bid an emotional farewell to Ghana's national team.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The books were to be turned into pulp. More history texts were burned the following day at another demonstration in Simferopol,the capital of Crimea.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

In their weekly address Saturday, Republicans turned their attention to the rising cost of energy.

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Voters in Namibia turned out in large numbers before dawn to cast their ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27