Scientists say the auxin has an indirect effect on buds on the side of the stem to prevent branching.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What kind of effect do you think video games have on youth or children?

你认为电子游戏对年轻人或者孩子有什么影响呢？

电子游戏 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says the changes went into effect on May twenty-ninth with the goal to process all requests within two weeks.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

When you do a split, you're changing the number of shares for everybody, so it can have no effect on the ratio for anybody; it's just purely appearance.

当进行分割时,每个人拥有的股数变了,但每个人持股的比率没变,只是做做样子罢了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

You're worried about the effect on the minority.

你担心其对少数人的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Let me just read two texts to that effect, first going back to Roland Barthes on page 877.

让我们读两篇和这个意思大致相同的文章，首先翻回877页罗兰，巴特的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

People removed by as much as 3 degrees of separation still had an effect on a person's happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Many people think that the Industrial Revolution was the first time people began to have a major effect on the earth's ecology.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

And that says, that's a dramatic effect on communities.

这就是说,这种病对社会产生了严重后果

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

So Greenberg, and since him, Brettler, and many others, have argued that the principle of divine authorship has certain very important implications. First, it has a significant effect on the scope of the law.

所以Greenberg和他之后的Brettler以及其他很多学者,都认为，作者身份的神圣性原则有某些意义重大的,含意，首先，它对法律的适用范围有重要影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One person attending that evening described how the perfection of all things in the museum seemed to have an unusual effect on the guests.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

So if you think of the effect of technology on the different populations, the young-age and the adult-age learners.

所以在思考技术对,不同人群的影响时，要想到青年和成年学者。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

She says the increase in income has a huge effect on the whole community as well.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

So hopefully you're convinced that your predictions worked well and you are able to predict what's going on when you're looking at the photoelectric effect.

希望你们确信,你们的预测都是对的,而且当你们考虑光电效应的问题时,你们可以预测。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

His march to the sea had a great, destructive effect on the spirit of the South.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Now, you know how to make women do worse on math tests too, like that, and this has a demonstrative effect.

你们也知道怎么让女同学考数学考不好，像这样，这样的作用非常显易而见。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

New Wal-Mart stores have had a big effect on small communities in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Look, when somebody's asleep, we need to do something to, in effect, wake them up, something to turn the functioning back on.

当某人熟睡时，我们需要做些什么才能叫醒他们，做些什么才能恢复他们的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But it did have an effect on efforts to rebuild the South following the war.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Citrus growers know that the number of fruit in their current crop has an inverse effect on the number of flowers in the return bloom.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

A lot of what we know ultimately about fat in the diet and risk for heart disease, risks for cancer from certain sort of diets, the protective effect of certain diets comes from studies that rely on just the kind of assessment that you guys just did.

我们最终了解的许多关于饮食中的脂肪,以及对心脏患病风险,一些特定饮食中存在的致癌风险,以及特定饮食中的保护作用的研究,都是以你们所做的这种评估为根据的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Every teacher in the world on the first day of teacher training need to learn about Marva Collins and Pygmalion effect.

每个教师在第一次接受教师培训时,需要了解Marva，Collins和皮格马利翁效应。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选