Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

He's narrating in great detail what happened while he was in the womb. Where does this knowledge come from?

他花了很大笔墨很详细地描写了,他还在子宫里发生的事，但他是怎么知道的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I thought London gives me enough to do for the next four years while I am studying to have a life.

我觉得在我学会在这里生活的时候，伦敦给予了我足够在未来四年里可以做的事情。

世界就是我的故乡 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There are rules that restrict the kinds of jobs that foreign students can have while studying in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

There's a second figure here standing ab extra, and that's the moon hovering overhead: "while over-head the Moon / sits Arbitress."

这里有第二个置身事外的角色，就是高高挂在空中的月亮：,“月亮高挂天心，像个公正的决断人“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And then you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while also respecting that structure."

VOA: special.2011.01.31

The first is, that while God's promise is sure, the manner and the timing of its fulfillment is quite unpredictable.

首先是，上帝的承诺是确定无疑的，但实现的方法和时机却都是不可知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

While most people are still asleep, he and his helpers prepare a meal every weekday for more than 200 people.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

And if you pay attention to the smallest things while knowing what's important, then everything else takes care of itself.

如果你注意到了最小的东西,并且知道什么是重要的，那么任何其他事情都会自然而然地好起来。

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

He wanted to express his feelings for the form of the skyscraper while deepening his understanding of architecture, engineering and construction.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

And third, they were required to put together implementation plan while they did the cost-benefit analysis to Merrill Lynch for offering this product to service.

第三，要求他们整合,实施计划,做出成本效益分析,以让美林推出该产品。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Well, a while back I said that we'll use it at least for a few weeks this moniker string.

好的，前阵子我说过，我们将至少,要使用这个绰号几周。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Then he would announce that he was going away to Europe or to California, or to Egypt for a while.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

I will use that to post information, maybe once in a while send an e-mail to the whole class.

我会在那上面发布通知,可能隔一段时间就会给全班群发一封邮件

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

One description said it was like sitting in the driver's seat of a small car, while wearing two heavy raincoats.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

That's why your operating systems and your personal computers often crash for no apparent reason. Just because two things happen to, once in a while, occur at the same time.

这就是为什么你的电脑或者操作系统,经常会毫无预兆的崩溃了,这是因为两件事情正好同时发生了，通常还有人工输入。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She made each hand as an example to students while she was teaching a class on drawing using free-motion embroidery.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

So, I mentioned at the beginning, while he was working with this radium bromide that I was very relieved to see that it did not kill him to do these experiments.

我在最开始就说了，由于他工作时接触到了溴化镭,我非常欣慰的,看到它做这些实验。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And, the museum invites public school students to view the collection while also providing teachers with art education projects.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

一个可能的解释,二元论者会说,那是你妈妈的鬼魂,她是一个非物质的灵魂,在你睡觉的时候跟你交流

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss rules about getting a job while studying in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

So one of the things that we've done for a while now is, we have this thing called Director Day.

所以我们一直在做的是，设立董事日。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Yet the situation did cause a great deal of tension while the nation waited to see if Garfield would survive.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

当现代诗歌以其各种方式极力想要操控现实时，奥登提醒我们--这在你们的讲稿上有，要小心诗歌会让人们一无所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Uganda's main opposition leader this week asked why Uganda and Burundi are providing troops while other African leaders ignore the problem.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

But they're two individuals who are committed to being with the other person in a respectful, generous, kind manner while disagreeing on some fundamental things.

但是他们两个人都努力,倾听对方,以相互尊重，宽宏大量并且友善的态度和谐共处,尽管他们在一些基本问题上各持己见。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She did for a little while. Then she put her shoes back on and put her old stockings into her bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

So the Hyksos theory is one that got people very excited for a while, but is really not well supported.

因此希克索斯理论能让人兴奋一阵子，但是并没有得到很好的证实。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

While Milton decided against writing an explicitly political nationalist poem, he did see himself as writing a poem that performed some kind of political function.

尽管弥尔顿决定要写的不是,有政治性的民族主义诗歌，他也让这首诗,发挥了一定政治作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选