The forty-fourth president, and first African-American president, was inaugurated last January twentieth.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Otherwise I'm going to check to see is the first and last, there's that - 1 indexing, is the first and last element of the string the same?

是第一个还是最后一个,这就是这边-1的索引内容，这个字符串的第一个,和最后一个的内容是否相同呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It says, well I'm going to print out first and last just so you can see it, and then I say, gee 2 if last minus first is less than 2, that is, if there's no more than two elements left in the list, then I can just check those two elements and return the answer.

然后它计算了尾点和开始点的差,如果小于2的话,也就是说数组中的元素小于等于，我对这两个元素进行比较,然后返回结果就可以了，否则的话，我们就去寻找中值点，注意它是怎么实现的,首先这个指向一个列表的开头。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

New Zealand shared first place last year with Denmark and Sweden.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

We had that very interesting piece last time, "Polish Oxcart" where he used this principle of low sounds produce sound waves that stay forever and we hear those low sounds first and last.

上次我们听了一段很有意思的曲子,《牛车》,当时他运用低频声音,持续时间长的原理,我们在最初和最后听到的都是低音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This is the last of the president's three commencement addresses this year, and his first at a military academy.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Last year I listed them, and there were not that many people that had the First Edition of the text.

去年我把它们列上去的，没有那么多人,有这本书的第一版。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Tanks and missiles paraded across Red Square last May for the first time since the Soviet collapse in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Here, in the first part of the poem, Yeats talks about death and remorse as the end of all debate, the last word.

在这首诗的第一部分，叶芝,谈及悔恨和死亡是所有争论的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Saudi Arabia,which hosts the Hajj and grants visas to participants, first recommended restricting participation last month.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

So hermeneutics will be our first topic, and it attempts to answer the last question that I've mentioned which is raised by theory of literature.

所以诠释学，是我们的第一个话题,它试图回答的是我在探讨文学理论时提出的最后一个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says it was not the first time fighting in Burma had forced villagers to flee to Thailand and would not be the last.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

But first, I want to start with the assignment I gave you last time, and I asked you all to think about these two questions and write some things down.

首先,让我们看看,上节课留的作业,我要求你们都思考,下面这两个问题并写下感想

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Iranian authorities have allowed Swiss diplomats to make only two consular visits to the detained Americans, the first in September and the second last week.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

So if we write out every term individually, what we end up with is essentially just the probability density for the first atom, then the probability density for the second atom, and then we have this last term here, and this is what ends up being the interference term.

如果我们把每一项都写出来，最后得到的就是,第一个原子的概率密度，然后是第二个原子的概率密度，然后是这最后一项，这就是干涉项。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The government appointed five-member panel began its first public hearings in London in an inquiry expected to last until the end of 2010 and possibly beyond.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

So as a first pass, the Evening Star is the first star that's visible and the Morning Star is the last star that's visible at the right times of the year.

在最初,昏星是能看到的,第一颗星,而晨星,是最后一颗,当然是在每年的特定时段

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mr.Taylor is the first witness in his defense and has spent much of the last 13 weeks dismissing the prosecution case against him as a series of lies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The argument that eliminates strategies 67 and above, or 68 upwards, that strategy just involves the first lesson of last time: do not choose a dominated strategy, admittedly weak here, but still.

剔除67以上或者68以上的过程,仅仅用到了上堂课所提到的第一个结论,即不要采用劣势策略,虽然这里是弱劣势,但同理

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And last June,says Sittenfeld, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first bill out of either chamber of Congress to directly take on the challenge of global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now, you have to understand that when you buy a bond, if you buy it at issue, you get the first coupon in six months, the second coupon in one year, the third coupon in eighteen months, and the last coupon you get at the maturity date.

你们需要了解,如果在发行时就购入债券,六个月后会得到第一笔票息,一年后第二笔,18个月后第三笔,到期时得到最后一笔票息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Audience members in Thursday's will get a chance to question Misters Brown, Cameron and Clegg, whose winning performance in Britain's first U.S.-styled televised debate last week gave his party an unprecedented boost in polls.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

And then finally, as you know, the first concept sheet is due next week, and any of those who were here for the first time can go to the lecture notes for last week and it gives a detailed description of how to do the first concept sheet.

最后,第一篇论文的截止日期是下周,新来的同学,可以翻阅上周的讲课笔记,对于如何做第一篇论文,里面有详细的说明

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mr.Obama,a day after brokering the first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the Gaza war late last year, said the United States will continue its pursuit of a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

And the last is perhaps the most useful at least at first glance.

还有GetString，最后一个用处最大。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The overseas trip is the first by Secretary of State since she fractured her elbow in a fall last month, and it includes an ambitious agenda in India, where she aims to solidify a strategic partnership begun with the 2005 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

And I'll remind you, what I'm printing out there is first and last, with the range I'm looking over, and then just how many times the iteration called.

我要打印出来的是，每次的区间,也就是first和last指向的值，以及重复多少次了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And if that's true is everything in the string, starting at the first element and removing the last element, a palindrome?

如果是相同的话,是不是字符串中的所有从第一个元素开始,并且删除最后一个元素后？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I'm going to talk about - take sort of the general concepts that we talked about last time and talk about how they apply in two physiological systems, the nervous system first and then the immune system.

我将要谈到几个基本的概念,我上节课已经讲过一些了,再讲讲这些概念在两个生理系统中的应用,首先是神经系统然后是免疫系统

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We're going to call binary search, it's going to take the list to search and the element, but it's also going to say, here's the first part of the list, and there's the last part of the list, Well, it checks to see, is it bigger than two?

我们将要调用这个二分查找,它将会在列表里面搜索元素，假定这里是，列表的第一个元素,那里是列表的最后一个元素，代码内部到底做了什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选