What interested them was that they spoke to a fisherman but it wasn't a fisherman. It was a woman.

他们在那儿跟一个渔民交谈,大家都以为那渔民是个男人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

I was like, "it's a castle from 1400." I was like, "America wasn't even built by 1400."

我想说“建于1400年的城堡。那时都还没有美国呢。”

英国与美国的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It wasn't nearly as big as Rome, which would consist of a million inhabitants fairly quickly around this time.

而且也没有罗马那么大，罗马当时能快速聚集百万居民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It was nice because it wasn't just, "Okay, Let's write a story" or "Let's do a research about the animal" or "Let's do a poem about fish".

说它出色，因为孩子们这样做，不是因为老师要求“,或布置的任务“,或学校强制。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

G P Thompson And it turns out that G.P. Thompson, and I'm sure this wasn't the case, but I like to think of it as a little bit of child rebelling against the father.

结果是他的儿子，我确定不是那种情况，但是我们认为他在小时候,对他的父亲可能有一点叛逆。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He was a poet who died before he could take up his career, and it's not unlikely that -- he wasn't married - that he was also a poet who died while he was still a virgin.

他是个事业还没起步就死了的诗人，并非不可能--金还没结婚,-他还是个未失童真就死了的诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There was a place in which from the earth there came-- it wasn't steam, what would it be?

在那里有个地方,从地下能冒出,似乎不是蒸汽,是什么来着

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The idea of working in an office, pushing papers 70 to 80 hours a week, although as lucrative as it might be, wasn't something I felt I will be really using my own personal skill set to benefit people on a mass level.

在办公室里一周做，70到80小时的琐碎工作，虽然会很赚钱，但是这并不是,我能真正用自己的能力,去造福大众的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It wasn't just California, because California was a huge state, with all kinds of--but mostly empty--land.

不是整个加利福尼亚,因为加利福尼亚是个很大的州,有着各种各样的土地,但多为空地

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I mean it wasn't terrible, it was sort of a precursor to what people are trying to do It flopped miserably, but I'm glad we did it.

其实也没那么糟糕，它就是个先兆，预示了现今人们,很悲惨它失败了，不过我很高兴我们做过。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But remember, it wasn't a list.

仅仅是个列表而已。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And it wasn't a neutral massacre.

并且那不是一场漫无目的的屠杀

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It wasn't just a profitable financial institution.

奴隶制已经不仅是个盈利的金融机构了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It wasn't that bad really, it was kind of interesting, I learnt a lot," to justify what they did.

其实这份工作没那么无聊，挺有趣的，我学到了很多“他们会这样为不合理的行为找理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Just like it wasn't a crazy thing to say if we only had the guy in Michigan.

同理，如果只有这个密西根家伙，那么也不算疯狂。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选