"If you're texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn't.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Because they would have started with the hypothesis, not that there existed a month, but that June was particularly likely.

因为他们是有了假设然后再开始做实验的，而不是说有一个这样特殊的月份，而是六月是一个特殊的月份。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Sabrina Just briefly, a supernatural figure, the nymph: it looks like Sabrina Sabrineah , but it was likely pronounced Sabrina .

只是简单地，一个不可思议的人物，女神：她看起来像,但它好像应该念。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

People in Finland were the least likely to believe that people laughing in their presence were making fun of them.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

The other thing you want to do is find the part of the program that is most likely at fault.

你们要做的另外一件事就是找出,最可能出错的那一部分代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Engineering and accounting graduates were more likely to have started their job search already and to have accepted a job.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

I don't know where any one of them is, but I can tell you on average where any one of them is likely to be.

我不知道它们中单独的个体在哪，但我可以大体告诉你,它们其中一个将是会怎样。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In other words, just because women cry more does not mean they are more likely to have a "good" cry.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

But, Hobbes believes it is simpler and easier and therefore more likely to catch the ear of a sympathetic prince.

霍布斯还相信,只有比较简单易懂的书,才更容易引起君王的怜悯之心。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is likely that the history of our own country may offer fresh examples to teach this truth to future ages."

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For example, I could believe that it's twice as likely that the person's going to choose Left as Right.

比方说,我可能认为对手选左的可能性,是选右的可能性的2倍

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active,to read,attend religious services and to vote.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

So, there is that kind of a boundary as well, and that is a place where trouble is likely to emerge.

因此,也有那种边界,而边境线上恰恰是最容易发生争端的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Ms.Quisumbing says studies show that women are more likely than men to spend money on food,health and educating their children.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

Southern pro-slavery defenders are much more likely to stress a human's duty, than they're ever to stress a human's rights.

南方的亲奴主义者们,相比较人类的权利而言,更加强调人类的义务

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Also important is providing information about where dangerous snakes are most likely to live and when they are most active.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

If one follows a diet that would be derived from the glycemic index; you're likely to have a pretty healthy diet.

如果一个人遵循基于血糖指数的饮食计划,你会得到一个相当健康的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Young people who said they were active in religious groups, sports or other interests were less likely to discuss risky behaviors.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

So my feeling is if we are in downturn it's quite likely to be mild like the last two.

所以我感觉，若要说我们正处于经济衰退,那也很可能和那两次一样轻微。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

In many countries, women are half as likely as men to use fertilizers to increase the amount of crops.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

Roughly 25% of you are likely to end up with some kind of an A at the end of the semester.

大概有四分之一的人,以90分或者更高而结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So when I had a handful of these cases, it seemed to me then there was likely something worth investigating.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So whether we finish it today, or more likely when we finish it up on Friday, once we get passed isoelectronic atoms, that's it, that's all you need to study for this first exam.

因此，我们也许今天讲完，或者更有可能周五讲完，无论如何，就到我们讲完等电子原子为止，这是你们第一次考试所需要准备的全部内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Female and minority students would face the most harm,it says, as they are more likely to attend career colleges.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

There has to be a sense, moving from sentence to sentence, that something is likely to happen next.

必须有一种感觉，从一句话到另一句话，认为接下来会发生什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The study found that hopeful individuals were fourteen percent less likely than other women to have died from any cause.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Because if it's irreversible, it's very likely that I don't know what the pressure inside the system is doing while this is happening.

因为对不可逆过程，系统内部的压强,没有明确的定义,气体不处于平衡态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Given that we have the largest Internet population, it's likely that we will be able to encounter new problems before American people encounter.

中国的互联网用户是最多的，中国很有可能,将在美国人之前遇到新的问题。

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