It may look solid, but it is a liquid as well.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

I mean I do hope that the fact that I'm interested in in rock and roll isn't perceived by some, as it may well be, to sully the ideals of the Louise Center for the arts and these high-minded things.

我当然希望，我对摇滚的,喜爱，在一些人眼中，不会玷污,路易斯艺术中心这种高雅的理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I figured it... I may as well apply to these universities which provide really good financial aid.

所以，我就想我应该申请这些能给予丰厚补助的学校。

耶鲁奖学金获得者 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The scheme to radically change the sources and the cost of American energy, through a system known as 'cap and trade' may be well intentioned, but it will cost us dearly in jobs and income, and it stands no chance of achieving its objective of a cooler earth,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

and you may have said to yourself as you were reading it, "Well, gee, isn't this sort of digressive?

读的时候你可能会对自己说，天，难道这不是离题了吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

As I think about it, I'm viewing the beach from a point of view which may well be on the beach, if somebody draws a painting of a beach.

我想来想去，自己就像是在海滩上,看着海滩一样，如果有人画一张海滩的图片。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, it's not memorized as we think of it and you may have had music lessons along the way and your teacher and your mother said "Go memorize your piece." It's not memorized like that.

这完全不是想我们猜想的那样是靠死记硬背的,也许你上音乐课的时候,你的老师或和你妈妈会说,记下这一段,而这段音乐不是像那样靠死记硬背的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

General Motors, as you know, is an auto producer in the United States and it hasn't been doing well, as you may have heard -as is the general auto industry in this country; it's suffering under competition from abroad.

通用汽车公司,众所周知,是美国的汽车制造商,它现在效益不好,也许你们听说过,整个国内汽车行业的情况都不好,它承受着来自海外品牌的竞争

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So we learned the very first time that in the Prisoner's Dilemma communication per se won't help, but in the coordination problem, which could be just as serious socially as a Prisoner's Dilemma, in a coordination problem it may well help.

在第一讲里我们就学到了,在囚徒困境中沟通不起作用,但是在和囚徒困境具有,同样重要社会意义的协和谬误中,交流却能够起到作用

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well, you can go to Treasury Direct as an individual and buy a Treasury bill, but it may not be the best place to buy.

可以用个人身份,在"国库指南"上购买短期国库券,但是那里并不是最好的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now there's another way of organizing this that's standard in Game Theory, so we may as well get used to it now on the first day.

下面再用博弈论的标准方式来整理信息,从今天以后大家要习惯用这种标准

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选