Her birthplace was not far from the Hollywood movie studios where she would someday be a star.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

We are going to be in a conference room not far from here, and we are going to be reviewing every person's performance in this class.

我们将会在一间会议室里,离这不远，我们会开始,回顾每一位同学课堂上的表现。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So, by definition, we'll be run by morons pretty soon We're not too far from that right now -from that point in our economic history.

所以理论上说公司很快就被傻子们所掌控了,我国的公司离那一点不远了,-离经济史上那一节点不远了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

While that rate is far from ideal, Lo points out that the lower rate will still be a significant improvement for Cambodian families.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

You see,many of you, not far from now,you will be in influential positions.

你们许多人，不久将会身居要职。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But they said the results will be provisional, and subject to review, an indication the future of the city is far from settled.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now with widespread allegations of vote-rigging, the British government is having to justify why British service personnel are dying for what appears to be a far from democratic election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

So what we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated, and is far from secure.

我们目前所认为的史实,主要都是从考古证据中所得,这些无声的证据出现于文字记录之前,因此就需要繁复的考证及解读,这些考证未必可靠

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"In our pandemic work, we were really focusing on the avian influenza, mostly in Asia and Africa, so the assumption that the next pandemic would start overseas, far from the U.S., turned out not to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Considering the scale of the challenge faced by South Africa, the organization next year will need to be even better than what the Egyptians have offered thus far, says Sydney Malangu, a photographer from Johannesburg working at the Under-20 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

So what I've said so far is, a particle moving in time from point to point can be represented by a graph, x versus t.

到目前为止,我说过,一个质点随时间的连续运动,可以用一幅x-t图来表示

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It's really remarkable how far--how fast we have come from just knowing the structure of this molecule to be able to manipulate it and study it in great detail.

我们在短时间内取得了非凡的成就,从最初仅仅知道DNA分子的结构,发展到能够深入研究并加以操控它

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You reach Egypt, and of course, Egypt is one of the great empires of antiquity going back into, perhaps, certainly into the fourth millennium, possibly into the fifth, by no means as powerful as it used to be, far from it.

你来到了埃及的领地,当然,埃及是古代最伟大的帝国之一,它有近四千年,甚至五千年的历史,毫无疑问,古埃及达到了空前绝后的强大

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But this seems to be a very far cry, ? does it not, from the kind of justice he talks about in the soul that consists in what we might think of as sort of rational autonomy or self-control where reason controls the passions and the appetites.

但这似乎非常地遥不可及，不是吗，若以他所谈灵魂的正义种类看来,那包含了，在我们可能会称之为,理性自治里,或自控,当中理性,控制激情与渴求。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, what we have found out so far, I'm purposely going from x to y because I want you to know that the unknown variable can be called an x or can be called a y.

到目前为止,我们有这些结论,我特地把x换成y,因为我想让你们明白,未知变量既可以写成x,也可以写成y

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选