The most that can be said -- if so much -- is that slaves are property.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

If that is so, we say "Poor Linda died " when she entered this spa." or you know "A week into the spa when " she dropped those 50 pounds."

如果她变成新的物体了，我们会说,“可怜的琳达做了水疗就死了,或者说，“她去做了一周水疗,减了50磅体重“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So I think that's the important way to know if MIT is where you want to be.

所以我觉得这是知道自己想不想去麻省理工一个重要的方式。

沟通很重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"That tail tells you the direction the blood was travelling. So if your tail is pointing that way, which direction was your blood going?"

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In fact, sometimes I think that in so far if there is an ethical difference, it favors the lethal injection.

其实，如果这两种方式的确有伦理上的,差别，那么伦理道德，更倾向于注射死亡。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

So, if you look at any engineering system, the performance of that engineering system is a function of its design and its construction.

如果你们观察过工程系统，工程系统的性能就是,它的设计和构造的功能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But this insurance policy is going to cover the farm inputs that we use in the farms, so that is going to give us the certainty of going back to the farms again if the rains do not come."

VOA: special.2010.05.11

So if you want to use a Revised Standard Version, that is other than the New Revised Standard Version,that's fine.

如果你想要修订标准版，而不是新标准修订版，也可以。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"The reason is that those plants are going to get so big that if you were to put three or four or six plants in, they are just going to be crowding each other out, and each plant is going to underperform."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

Okay, so if you're underweight your body is depleting its fat stores and therefore that may make you unhealthy.

你的看法是如果体重过轻,身体会把储存的脂肪消耗尽,因此导致了健康问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Captain Camara says politicians seems so afraid of the support that he is receiving, it is as if they are lost.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

I'm sure there's some upper limit as there are to most things, like if we think of wavelengths and different types of light, there is so large that you can get, but you would be approaching that level.

我确信对于大多数事物,都会有一个上限，就像我们考虑波长和不同的光时，那个太大了，但是你可以接近那个量级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So the money is available somewhere if the priority is decided that tackling climate change is what we have to do."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

So if you archive it, that's maybe a little hint that either this is just your habit or perhaps that you might actually care about this later in the future, whereas if you delete it, no, you really don't care. Yeah.

如果你把邮件存档，可能暗示这可能,是你的习惯,或者以后还会用到它，相反，如果你删除了它，说明你可能根本不在意这个邮件。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"So that even if the World Cup is over they will feel that they should come because of the experience that we gave them."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

And I think that's very important especially with electromagnetism, which is so numb toward if, so abstract and so much math flowing around.

我觉得这是非常重要的,尤其是对于电磁学来说，它是一门很难懂的，很抽象的学科,包含很多数学在里面。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Danny Jordaan says the vuvuzelas are being evaluated on an ongoing basis and that a ban is an option "if there are grounds to do so."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

So that's what his tendency is, but if he does that, it's very bad news for his city.

所以他就会倾向于逃跑,但如果他逃跑了,那这对他的城邦来说可是个坏消息

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"There is so much talent back here. And I know that this might sound outrageous, but if someone reads that book, perhaps it will not sound so outrageous.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

All right. Okay. So, if you ever doubted that the dream of an immediate language that is somehow the correlate to jazz and experience, that's your dream living on. Okay.

好了，如果你们还有对如何通过文字或语言,和爵士乐及人生经历产生联系的疑问，这个作品就是那一巧妙结合的梦幻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"If you find that the road is not paved, or that the road is paved but breaks down because the corruption is so bad you do not get standards and quality, then you have got a major problem.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

So then, if that's right, then to ask, "Is there life after death?" Is just asking, "Is there life after the end of life?"

那么,如果这是对的,那试问,死后能否继续活着,也就是在问,生命结束后是否还有生命

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We had to say 'well,that is great. If you can get here that is fine, but we are shooting in Adelaide.' So once they jumped in, the film went to a new level and the fact that we had their support was huge."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

So it's as if that decision is made instantaneously as the shooter is running up.

这就好像所有决定都在,罚球球员起跑的一瞬间完成的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I think they were entitled to take action against a budding dictator. But even if they weren't, it seems to me that it is not so clear that he is in the right that the United States should be meddling in Honduras' affairs."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

So it is always the case that I can only know what I know if it's a question of being communicated with, having something rendered intelligible for me, negatively.

所以我们总是这样地认识事物,我们和人交流时，总是被动地认识符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

So, I've been asked that if a question is not very clear, I should repeat it so that people listening to it later will know what the question was.

工作人员要求我,如果某个问题听得不清楚,我就需要重复一遍,好让今后观看视频的人弄清楚问题是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The reason why I do put them up is so that you have the opportunity if you want to see it again or if you have to miss a class.

我之所以把资料放在网上是为了,让你们可以重温或者学习错过的课程。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选