Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

It's dangerous to want to get away from earth awhile, to get your feet entirely off the ground.

想要逃离地面一会，让自己的双脚同时离开地面很危险。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And when he says that, his workers pull off the tarp and sparks fly from the chandelier.

当他说这些话的时候，助手就把油布掀开了，然后就看到吊灯那里有火星飞出来。

歌剧魅影 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She reached the blanket just in time to see the weasel run off with a tiny rain baby hanging from its mouth.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

On seeing him, Enkidu, the gazelles ran off The wild beasts of the steppe drew away from his body.

见到他，羚羊开始奔逃,草原上的野兽开始远离他。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I have gotten things from far-off places like Africa and Asia, but I cannot get the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Paul Raushenbush This is Paul Raushenbush, the associate dean of Religious Life at Princeton University, signing off from the Inner Core.

我是，是普林斯顿大学宗教生活副院长,是普林斯顿大学宗教生活副院长，本期的“人性讲堂“就到这里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

All right. So, let's pick up where we left off, first of all we're still on the hydrogen atom from Monday.

好，让我们从上次停下的地方讲起，我们还要讲周一讲的氢原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We leave you with "Turn it Off," from the Paramore album, "Brand New Eyes."

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Satan has roused himself from off the burning marl, and he stands in order to call up his fallen minions, to rouse them to acts- great acts of heroism.

撒旦已经从灰土中站起身，召唤着他同样堕落了的随从们，唤醒他们实现英雄之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some died from falling off the bridge or from being struck by equipment.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

It's all very mysterious and we send off a spaceship to investigate the markings, the radio signals from the other place.

一切都很神秘,所以我们,派遣一艘飞船去调查星球上的印记,以及那些从其他星球传来的无线电信号

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Then the United States would be cut off from trading directly with China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

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

No one gets off the hook on this one -- from governments to schools, corporations to nonprofits, all the way down to families sitting around their dinner table."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

If you lived during the time of Matthew himself, all of this stuff would seem fairly familiar to you, the idea that kings would come from far off and see a star, and that meant that the birth of someone great had been born.

如果你生活在马太的时代，你会觉得这些非常熟悉，比如国王沿着星星指引从远方而来，那说明有伟大的人物出生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A signal from the TV tells each side of the glasses when to turn on and off, showing each eye slightly different images that create the sense of depth.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

It's different from Fed policy in that they set up a certain amount of money and auction that off to the highest bidder.

这与美联储政策不同,因为他们设定了一定数量的连出价最高的投标者,都无法触及的货币拍卖。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I felt alone,cut off from friends, high above the firm earth.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Everything from the decimal point over gets chopped off.

所有小数点后面的数值都被砍掉了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It goes from Grameen Bank, from someone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize to moneylenders who are ripping people off every day with hundred percent a month interest rates.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What I'll always remember was seeing him, about an hour later, momentarily take off his thick dark rimmed glasses,and announce: "From Dallas,Texas,the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at one p.m.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

They could say I won't lower my prices if you don't lower your prices, and they could put this contract in with the pricy lawyer, who's taking a day off from the divorce court, and that would secure that they wouldn't lower prices on each other.

可以协定好你不降价我就不降,然后可以找个刚处理完离婚纠纷的,著名律师来作见证人,那样他们就放心对方不会打价格战了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In Saudi Arabia it takes five days. So,it's things like that where they can learn from each other about how to get more efficient, how to help entrepreneurs get off the ground."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

A gig is 10 to the 9, so it does two operations in the length of time it takes light to get from one foot off the table down to the table. That's amazing.

因此光行进一英尺的,时间内电脑可以,进行两次基本运算,这太神奇了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Nor could it take off from the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But, from this moment forth, cell phone goes off, you're out. You leave the room, OK? And, Lord help you if a cell phone goes off during an exam because those things have text messaging capabilities.

但是，从这一刻开始，手机响的话，你们就出去，你们就离开教室，好吗，上帝保佑你的手机不要在考试期间响起,因为它们有发短信的功能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head when we get to the story of Athens and the invention of democracy, because it was off the wall from the perspective of Greek tradition.

我希望,当我们讲到雅典神话,以及民主制的诞生时,你们还记得这点,因为从希腊人的传统观点来看,这是很不寻常的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选