"The sort of foundation product that we serve is lefse, this Norwegian potato flatbread, and I grew up eating that every year at Christmastime.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

It may not clearly think about things, about objects, but it has a kind of legitimate basis that generates the sort of thinking that it does.

意识可能并不能清晰地思考事物，却有正当的依据,产生出它的思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

so I, you know, I enjoy that sort of intense effort, the sort of adrenaline that goes with the crunch

我就喜欢那种高强度的努力，那种肾上腺素增长的感觉。

电脑图片的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was the sort of performance that you do not see very often.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.

有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说，在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I quite often get an intense feeling of life and death, of the sort of achievements and failures of the people."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

But another clue is the sort of smiles they give when they see each other when they walk into the lab.

但另一个线索是他们给出的微笑,当他们走向实验室时碰到对方。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Earlier this year, the sort of strident sort of criticism that you heard coming out of the White House certainly indicated that there was displeasure with the disfunction of the government in Kabul,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

So that music, the sort of seductive feel that was in this video is how humans feel about fat.

视频音乐传达出的那种诱惑感,很像人类对脂肪的感觉

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

What I really love about New Moon is you see this girl really build herself back up and by the time she makes the sort of rash decision to spend eternity with a vampire, you believe her.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

The head of the expedition to Troy, Agamemnon, the sort of generalissimo of that expedition is called Wanax.

特洛伊远征队的首脑,阿伽门农,当时这类大统帅被称为瓦纳克斯

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

What are the moments when that subjectivity, the sort of prison of that subjectivity, wavers?

那些主观性，那些主观的牢笼，在什么地方出现？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"There's this incredible leap of faith, on the part of the singer, where you're just hoping,sort of,beyond hope, that somehow this works,right?

VOA: special.2011.05.09

And it's the sort of question and the reason why I said I wanted to glance in this direction without really going there.

这也是我前面说,我只想稍微提一下这个问题，但不深入讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

You can still see in the Pantheon-- the sort of secular monument but also just Napoleonic generals one after another-- you can still see bullet holes there, from the Commune, not just from World War Two, from where people were executed.

你在先贤祠,那是安葬着诸如埃米尔·左拉等,当然一个挨一个的,也放着拿破仑一世的将军们,你在那仍然可以看到弹孔,它是巴黎公社时就留下的,不仅仅只是二战时候的,人们被处决时留下的弹孔

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

If you have any sort of a mass or growth in your neck at the same time, that would be very suspicious."

VOA: special.2009.09.02

And when my dad was here, he was in like, the sort of height of his crazy phase.

我父亲在这儿上学的时候，纳什的精神失常正处于最严重的阶段。

知道约翰·纳什吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I had never done that sort of work, and it was not the right job for me.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

But that's the sort of the thing we do and it's coupon clipping and it's risk mitigation or risk elimination--fairly short.

但这似乎就是我们正在做的事情,那就是定期得到收益,同时也是风险弱化或者风险消除-的确很短。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

I think it's possible to see that "they" as the sort of general forces of modernity, of everything at odds with the aristocratic culture Yeats and these women shared, inhabited.

我认为可以把它们看作“,某种现代性的力量，所有和贵族文化不一致的,叶芝和两个女人所共有的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And sort of the same ideas have been confirmed over and over again.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

This is the sort of thing that people who do numerical programming worry about all the time. And there are a lot of a little tricks they use to deal with that, they'll perturb it a little bit, things like that.

这是一些做计算编程,要时刻注意的问题,当然有的时候我们还需要,应对一些假象，比如像这样被扰乱的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well,sort of.Hanukkah -- the Jewish Festival of Lights -- really is eight days.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And the sort of tragedy then is sort of personal tragedy where is taking away from his parents.

悲剧是一种个人的,从父母那里的来的悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

There's either the scrap industry where they're shredding cars and shredding tires and there's the refurbished PC market and we're sort of sit right in between both of those."

VOA: special.2010.11.01

And there is much in his writing that recalls the sort of extraordinary virtues and capacities of the citizens of the ancient republican city-state.

他的著作当中有许多响应,特别是美德,以及公民地位的论点,那是属于古代城邦共和所独有。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So in fact the model, in addition to the sort of nerdiness of the model, it ended up with a result we kind of believe in.

所以实际上这个模型,除了那些烦人的部分,它的结论是值得我们参考的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选