People who have never heard of a macaron usually confuse it with the much better known treat spelled with two Os,the macaroon.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

We have 80% attendance and the assessment show students are actually doing better in terms of conceptual understanding than the normal lecture-station format.

我们获得了80%的出勤率,评估结果还表明,学生们在概念理解方面,做得更好了,跟普通的讲座-背诵型课比起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And so, I'm going to talk about that after we have a better understanding of what's going on in the book.

因此我将在我们对这本书有了更好的理解之后,再谈论其历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Party leaders believed their candidates would have a better chance of winning if they opposed the policy.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

We have to ask ourselves, "Which of these does a better job of explaining the facts about disease?"

我们需要问问自己,这两者哪一个能更好地,解释关于疾病的一系列现象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I know where the young people come together, we have the possibility of doing whatever it takes to make the world a better place."

VOA: special.2009.07.01

We got an easy one. Let's just for the heck of it I should have found some better examples before I tried this. No mutant spiders here.

我们有了个简单的数字,让我们以防万一,我应该在尝试这个之前找几个更好的例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At the same time, researchers continue working to help patients have a better quality of life.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

We'll try to make sure everybody's schedule is accommodated, and you'll either meet on Thursdays or Fridays, in discussion sections,and we'll organize those sections closer to the end of the shopping period, when we have a better idea who will be in here.

我们会尽量选大家都有空的时段，不是周四就是周五，这些讨论环节,会在选课周临近结束前决定，这样我们可以知道谁选了这门课。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Let us see how all the questions that have arisen out of this unhappy subject of slavery can be better settled more fairly and justly than the plan I have offered.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

In general, less volatile stocks have done better over time than more volatile stocks, which is somewhat inconsistent with the notion of efficient markets.

一般来说，波动小的股票在长期内比波动大的股票,表现要好，一定程度上,这和金融市场有效论的观点是相悖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And by learning what it is about economic development or housing that actually helps to improve health, we can then design more programs and ultimately make better use of the knowledge that we have."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

And if you have your calculator all set up as you love and you don't want to change it, then maybe you should just go and get an $8.00 scientific calculator that doesn't have any of the graphing functions, because you don't actually need them, so that's a better option for you, you can do that as well.

如果你的计算器里已经按照你的喜好编好了,而你又不想改动，那么或许你可以,去再买一个八美元的科学计算器,它没有任何绘图功能，因为实际上你也用不到这些，所以这对你来说是一个更好的选择，你也可以这样做。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We must do better." Republicans have put forward a list of principles that they think should drive the 2010 budget.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

In terms of the curriculum I have strong ideas, but I'd like to get to know better what your interests are, what you're looking for.

关于课程安排我已经有了具体的想法，但我想进一步了解,你们对什么感兴趣，想要学到什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

(Speaking) Waxler says the agency should have provided better oversight and employed tougher standards for dealing with adverse effects of LASIK.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

It is much better to have the appearance than the reality of religion.

拥有宗教的表象,比拥有其实质要好得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

An estimated 80,000 scientists have left the country in search of better pay, funding and facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

So you build it with a material like silver and gold, and then you encounter the problems of society that your bridge might get stolen because somebody thinks they have a better use for silver and gold than your bridge.

但如果你用金或银这样的材料,你又会面对新的问题,你的桥会被偷走,因为有人认为金和银有比造桥更好的用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We would have a much better idea of what the Chinese are doing - how much technology they have and how much they have access to."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

If your plan is to accelerate a 3 kg mass with an acceleration of 2 meters per second, you better have a rope that can furnish that force and it can take the tension of 6 Newtons.

如果你想用 2 米每秒平方的加速度,去拉一个 3 千克的物体,那么你就需要一根能提供拉力的绳子,并且它能够承受 6 牛的张力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Despite better atmospherics in their relationship since the start of the Obama administration, the two sides have not resolved differences over Georgia, European missile defense and ways to prompt Iran to end uranium enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

This is very interesting important work and if this comes about-- I mean as the work on this becomes more and more robust, and the measurement gets better and better, this will be a huge help because then we'll have a better sense of exactly what kind of things people are eating on the vegetable front.

这是非常有意思并且重要的工作,如果这成为现实,我是说随着这方面的技术越来越成熟,测量效果越来越好,这将成为极大助力,因为那时我们,能更好的知道人们,吃了什么蔬菜

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Analysts say by including private investors in the new initiative the government will be able to better evaluate the true value of these troubled assets and investors will have a stake in making a profit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

and most importantly, deep resolution, so we can go below the cortex, where other methods like PET that have better spatial temporal resolutions can't and see what's going on in these deep circles of the brain and this is very exciting,for many people, many of the advances have occurred of the last 10 years, I'm just gonna talk about a few of them today.

而且最重要的是，深层解析度，这样我们就能深入皮质以下，而这些地方其他,拥有更好空间解析度的方法如PET所不能达到的,从而看到大脑深处发生的了什么事情,这让很多人觉得非常激动，大部分技术上的进步发生在过去10年，今天我会将其中几种。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

China's Finnish coach Hannu Juhani Saintula acknowledged that his team will have to get a lot better to compete with the likes of the strong U.S.squad, but he added the experience of playing the Americans can only help.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

We can say, we'd better say that you can have the very same personality even if some of the elements in your personality change.

我们可以认为，最好认为,即使你人格中的某些部分改变了,你拥有的还是同一个人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The pope said Angolans have received power from the Holy Spirit to be the builders of a better tomorrow for their country and said he came to Africa to preach "this message of forgiveness, hope and new life in Christ."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Certain kinds of financial markets called "Prediction markets," which may, for example, predict the outcome of an election have been seen to be very accurate predictors, often better than pollsters can manage.

人们称这种金融市场为,"可预测的市场",举个例子来说,市场对某次大选结果的反应,比民调专家,还要更加准确

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选