He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

So, the engine that I'm going to illustrate is called a Carnot engine.

这个热机,叫做卡诺热机。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

There was the engine and the steering wheel and the tires and so forth.

有引擎 方向盘,轮胎以及之类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The power from the engine pushes the car forward from the back wheels instead of pulling it forward with the front wheels.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

So you know, what the second law is doing, in other words, it's putting these restrictions on how well or how effectively we can convert heat into work in the case of the engine, or work into heat extracted in the case of a refrigerator.

你们知道，在热机中，热力学第二定律的作用，换句话说，就是给热量,转化为功的效率,施加限制,或在制冷剂中，对抽取热量,进行限制。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But the crew avoided capture by hiding in places like the engine room for many tense hours.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

If we have a small engine, and we have to pull the car up a steep hill,a difficult hill, the engine is more likely to collapse,to blow up.

如果我们用的引擎很小，想把车开上一个陡峭崎岖的山坡，引擎很容易损毁，爆炸。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Inside the car, they should open a window a little for fresh air and turn on the engine for ten or fifteen minutes every hour for heat.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

That slavery may have its bad aspects but it has been the engine of good, it has been the engine of empires, the engine of wealth, the engine of greatness.

奴隶制本身也有不好的方面,但是它曾是一切善行的起源,帝国崛起的推动力,是一切财富的来源,伟大事物的起源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Yet the sound of the engine made everything seem warm and safe.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

I mean, you know the wings go, and the air runs, and then the motor on the engine and it's a miracle how it gets up there and that is the way I used to explain the Greeks, because I had no better idea.

我的意思是,你知道机翼的作用,空气的流动,还有引擎上的发动机,飞机能飞起来,是个奇迹,我就是用这种方式来解释希腊历史的,因为我也没有更好的方法了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The engine uses biofuel made from vegetable oil and waste chocolate.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

And an analogy I like to think about is that your--when you bring your car in to repair it-- for repairs, when you're repairing your car, the first thing you do is you stomp it and shut off the engine.

我想打个比方,当你开你的车去修时-,当你修你的车时，你首先要做的是,刹车，关掉引擎。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He made sure the engine on the "Winnie Mae" was perfect.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

We did that, we came up with very good Chinese search engine technology, and we signed up a lot of the Chinese portals in a very short period of time.

我们开发了,很好的中文搜索引擎技术，并在短期内，和许多门户网站公司,签了合约。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

But he says small businesses are the engine of job growth in America, and they are still having trouble getting loans.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Look at the last two lines: "But that two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."

看一下最后两行：,“然门边的双手引擎“,整装待发着发出毁灭性的打击“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So we had to take the engine pack out and replace it."

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

I want to see the end of the internal combustion engine applied to personal mobility.

我想见证内燃机不在应用于,人们出行生活。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It was not until Henry Ford's gas-powered Model T that the internal combustion engine and the car became inseparable.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But economist Jack Strauss says credit conditions threaten the main engine of job growth since two thousand one small businesses.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

We have the students grouped according to ability, that is we have head-engine in grouping.

我们将学生分组,根据他们的能力，因此在一个小组中有不同能力的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They had to do this by firing the lunar module rocket engine for just the right amount of time.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

It's just like you could say some of the principles of mechanics are very obvious, but to make an engine that operates in terms of those principles is not obvious.

这就像你能说,很多机械原理都显而易见，但是要根据这些原理,制作一个能够运转的发动机,就不那么容易了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It is night time. And the only sound that can be heard is the long, lonely whistle coming from the train's engine.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Sometimes when cars get destroyed, the engine gets destroyed right along with it.

有时候汽车遭到毁坏，发动机也会跟着坏掉。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

we can run the engine backward and build a refrigerator, if you've got your lecture notes from last period your 8-9, well, they're labeled 8-9 lecture notes, I made an attempt to define something which was a little bit misguided.

现在我们可以把热机倒过来,制作一台制冷机，如果你们拿出上节课的笔记,也就是8-9节，好的，他们在8-9节，当时我试着,定义了一些,有些误导你们的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选