"But meanwhile you can only do so much for so long.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They can only do so much with the camera, tear, tear, tear.

他们只能通过摄像机记录一切，割裂，割裂还是割裂。

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"Get it down," he said. "Take chances.It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything good."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

You can only do this because it's reversible. What else do I know?

这一步,只对可逆过程成立，还有什么已知条件？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But Adam Reed Tucker proves that the only limit to what the toy can do is a person's imagination.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Or the physicalist can only do a rotten job of explaining, like demon theory did?

或者,物理主义者只能,提供一个很蹩脚的解释,就像恶魔理论那样

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There was nothing I could do. When you have this kind of a problem, you can only take care of your body.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Well, you can only do that if you are in a contest.

你只能在竞争状态下才能做到到这些

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Even if you cannot do mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing, you can perform hands-only CPR.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

And yet if a computer can only count up to 2 billion or maybe 4 billion, I mean, what do you then do?

如果一台计算机只能够支持20亿,或者40亿，那我们该怎么办？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Sometimes I can do two things by performing only one action.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The only thing you can do now, the only religious thing you can do, is act.

你现在唯一能做的事情，你能做的唯一的宗教的事情，就是表演。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And when monkeys can't give us the answers we need,only then, do we move to the chimpanzee."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

And, if you'd like to change, you can do so only with the permission of the administrator.

如果你们想要更改时间，只能在课程管理主任允许的情况下,这样做。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"They can just say they won't do it." "Abstinence-only sex education denies young women opportunity to have the knowledge they need to make their own informed decisions."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

That makes sense because we know that every single electron has to have its own distinct set of four quantum numbers, the only way that we can do that is to have a maximum of two spins in any single orbital or two electrons per orbital.

那个讲得通,因为我们知道每一个电子,都有它自己独特的量子数,我们能做的唯一方式是,在任一单个轨道中最多有两个自旋电子,或者每个轨道有两个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ajami says there's only so much an American president can do.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the public health care system, for example, only two hospitals are equipped with dialysis machines, which remove impurities from the blood when the kidneys can not do it.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

There's only one occasion where it helps to go to three dimensions because there are certain things you can do in 3D you cannot do in less than 3D.

只有一种情况下进入三维是有意义的,因为有些事情你能在三维空间内完成,但低于三维就做不到了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"I have been seeing it more and more, that more people want to get involved, not only in their communities, but in their state and local governments and try and do what they can to make this world a better place.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

That's the only thing we can do with these flaws.

我们只能接受缺陷。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"A tremendous number of villagers live in fear, and we have officials who either can not or do not serve their people effectively, and violence is up, and it is not up only because there are more coalition forces, it is up because the insurgency has grown,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

You can only do it at zero degrees Kelvin.

你只能在0下做到这点。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But doing nothing is not only the worse thing we can do for the economy and the worst thing we can do for health care, it is the worst thing we can do for the Democrats and don't you think the Republicans do not know it,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

You can only do that by balancing competitive desires that can be thought of as evil; faction was what they were talking about and everybody thought faction was bad, but it was inevitable.

你仅仅通过平衡那些被视为罪恶的,竞争性欲望就可以达到此目的,也就是,大家所谓的派系,每个人都认为派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, the guys in the back turn and run, which is the only thing you can possibly do once you feel our phalanx is broken.

然后,后面的人转过身去,夺路而逃,当你感到方阵快要被打散时,你唯一可能做的就是逃跑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And proceeds to do the only thing he can do to defend himself against Hal, which is shut down the program, basically killing-- if we can talk that way--killing Hal.

而他唯一,能使让哈尔不伤害到自己的举措,就是关闭该程序,基本上也就是杀死,如果我们可以那样表达的话,杀死哈尔

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if we go to the ground state, what you see is we're at that lowest energy level, and we only have one possibility for an orbital, because when n equals 1, that's all we can do.

如果我们在基态上，你可以看到，我们在能量最低的态上，只有一种，可能的轨道，因为n等于1，只有这种可能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选