The situation is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly sinking.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.

你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And again, Kafka invites us to imagine waking up into a body of a cockroach and we can.

这里,卡夫卡再次带领我们去想象,一觉醒来却变成一只甲虫的场景,而我们是可以想象到的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A few years later, his family received permission to move the body to a cemetery in the city of Baltimore.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

And there's a huge critical industry around Flannery O'Connor, and at the core of it is a body of criticism that finds and articulates and explains the religious meanings of her texts.

奥康纳的周围是个庞大的评论圈，其核心是对她文中的,宗教意义的,发现、表达和阐释。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

For example, one of the symptoms is a lack of feeling in one part of the body or another.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Like when they devised the first engines or the first nuclear reactors, it didn't work so well at first and then from the experience of many people working on it, over many years, a body of knowledge emerges and that's what we call technology.

这和发明出第一个发动机,或者第一个核反应堆时一样,最开始总是存在很多问题,但随着很多人不断努力去完善它,一种理论体系才得以不断发展,这就是我们所说的科技

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He knew not why. There in the black darkness by the side of the body, he remembered everything without a shock.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And so he's able to bear a rich extensive body of materials to talk about Shakespeare with the students.

所以说他收集了丰富的广泛的,材料来与学生讨论莎士比亚。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

If several of these conditions are present at the same time, a person's body temperature may rise above safe levels.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

But also, I think, embodied because it is specifically a thing of the body and involves an experience of the body, as much as, or more than, the mind.

同时我认为表现是因为,那是身体具体的部分，包括,身体和心灵的一种体验。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A tube is placed inside the body to collect urine, so the patient does not have to get out of bed.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So physicalists do not believe in any immaterial object above and beyond the body that's part of a person.

所以物理主义者不相信,任何超越肉体的非物质实体的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, a treatment to suppress the body's defenses against the disease was approved to treat severe cases of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

When we're looking at a painting of a naked body we don't say, "Oh, that's a naked body."

当我们看到裸体画像时，我们不会说：,“看呐，这人没穿衣服“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

They might have lots and lots of holy writings, but they don't have a particular, bounded body of writings that they call scripture.

他们可能有很多神圣的述著，但他们没有一部特定的，书写成卷的圣典。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A separate study has found that age, gender and where a person has extra body fat may affect the risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The minerals are present in small amounts in food and as a function of body weight as well.

矿物质,在食物中所占比例非常小,在体重中所占比例也非常小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Nobel committee said the book "is like a surgical operation on one of the most delicate parts of the social body."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Now, what does that have to do with the life of a cell inside the body?

这一特性,对我们体内细胞生存有什么意义呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

One way to say it is, every body will continue to remain in a state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line.

另外一种说法是,任何物体都会继续保持静止,或匀速直线运动的状态

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And the fat that comes back reappears in a new area of the body, most noticeably the shoulders, arms and upper abdomen.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.

他赞同一元论的异端观点，一元论也叫做万物有灵论或者生机论,强调肉体和灵魂没有界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There was nothing I could do. When you have this kind of a problem, you can only take care of your body.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

That is to say the character of those who constitute a city and here he rejects a number of alternatives for what constitutes a citizen body.

也就是说那些构成城市者的特质,而在这，他拒绝了不少,替代构成公民本体的方案。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Soon after he had finished his work he sank into a chair by the side of the table upon which the body lay.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

In fact, if you draw a diagram of a person, what their body is corresponding to the amount of somatosensory cortex, you get something like that.

事实上,如果你画一张人体示意图,在这张示意图中,将躯体感觉皮层面积与身体相对应,那么你就会得到这样的一张图

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Here, the gold and silver apples are specifically alchemical symbols of body and soul, and a kind of mystical image of earthly paradise.

这里银苹果金苹果具体指,身体和灵魂魔法上的象征，是古时天堂的一种形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选