"In England,like in the United States, bilingualism is seen as something special and unique and something to be commented on and perhaps work towards, whereas in many other parts of the world being bilingual is just seen as a natural part of life."

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Yeats, in "Adam's Curse," regrets that the beautiful is something to be labored for and he wants to conceal that labor.

他在亚当的诅咒中后悔地称,这种美值得为之劳累,他想隐藏这种劳累。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I actually think there's something to be said for the fact that if your a company, let's say, starting up,

我其实觉得这应该使人关注，如果你的公司，也许在创业的阶段，

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

for short...to answer that question, we need to get clearer about: What exactly is it for something to be me?

等等这些问题,我们需要先清楚以下问题,我究竟是什么东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Maybe something to be a chaplain wouldn't fit into the scheme of things, I think.

也许当一个教士不是在,计划之内的事吧我觉得。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Truth is something to be embodied in Yeats, embodied rather than known; embodied in the sense of lived, not merely understood but experienced.

真理是叶芝要表现的，表现而不是理解，通过存活,表现，不仅是理解而是体验。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So this type of product is just, they're a treat, they're something very,very special to be savored."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Past isn't something to be glamorized to be the nostalgic about, sentimental about, because the past is gone.

过去不是用来让我们美化的,也不是让我们怀旧感伤的，因为过去了的就成了历史，消失不在了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

You need to, if you want something to be printed out inside your code, you need to tell the machine to do that.

你需要，如果你想要,在代码中显示一些东西的话，你需要告诉机器这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The dollar weakness is something to be concerned about.

美元的疲软确实值得担忧。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"This is something any man would be glad to do for him it is an emergency.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

So that, to think nothing is something you have to work at; it's something that you can be preoccupied with.

所以脑子里一片空白,也是需要你努力的事;,需要全神贯注的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In his later years, he wanted to write something that he knew would be remembered always.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I don't necessarily think that summer reading has to be something light, has to be something mindless" Two of Mark LaFramboise's suggested books involve animals.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

Deflection up and deflection down indicating that there was something strange that had yet to be accounted for.

发生了偏离,这就说明还有一些奇特的现象,需要我们去解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They say that you do not need to be extremely intelligent to understand something.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

There will in fact never be a good time to try something new, and there will actually never be a semester where you do have that more time.

实际上我已经没有机会尝试新事物了，而且也不用过学期了,但你们有更多的时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It is used when someone tells something that was supposed to be secret.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

There will always he suggests appear to be something ad hoc about the methods used in the study of politics.

主题允许多少精准性？我们如何得知,事情总有，他也提到,总有一些事是特别的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And that's something that you have to be willing to put up with."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

This one turns out to be the heat capacity, and this one turns out to be something that we measure in the Joule-free expansion.

其实，这就是热容，这是焦耳自由膨胀实验中,我们要测量的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Barbara Jordan,however, explained later that she wanted to be something unusual.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

We're actually going to do one more clicker question to get started with today, and as we do, I'll explain something we're going to be trying today, which is a little bit of a friendly competition in terms of answering the clicker questions correctly.

我们将在开始讲授今天的课程之前,再多做一个选择题，我先来说明一下做这件事的原因，这实际上是一个,回答选择题的小比赛。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We've had other economic problems that have led to recessions but it hasn't seemed to be something as potentially global as it is now.

我们经历过其他导致经济衰退的,经济问题，但是这些都不是,像现在这样全球化的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选