However,scientists say a slow earthquake could be helping to release pressure, and possibly preventing more powerful quakes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

The Romans, when they came on the scene, in the East, and they gradually became more and more powerful, they destroyed Corinth in a big battle in 144 BCE.

罗马人在东方登场时，变得愈来愈强大，公元前144年他们在一场大战中摧毁了科林斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, they would have been more vulnerable and you wouldn't have to have such a powerful bow.

所以,既然普通弓箭容易造成受伤,你就不会需要用到那么强力的弓

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Soon after, Hubble began working with a larger and more powerful telescope at Mount Wilson.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

They have various ideas about which pieces are more powerful and so they're more important to protect.

它们会想,哪些棋子的威力更大,需要重点庇护

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The telescope recently received new equipment and instruments to make it even more powerful.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

We will return on Monday and do yet more powerful things with this.

我们将在下周一,用它做更有用的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The more powerful culture rarely respects the language and culture of smaller ethnic groups.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

However,Adolf Hitler and other fascists continued to grow more powerful.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

It's a more powerful method than something called a cross-sectional study, and I'll come back in a later lecture and talk about these in more detail, but a cross-sectional study means you're taking a snapshot of a population of people at one time.

这种方法比所谓的横断面研究更加有效,我将在以后的课中,再仔细讨论这个问题,但横断面研究是指,你一次记录下一群人的状况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Monday's nuclear test was North Korea's second, and according to seismic readings, may have been more powerful than the first.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.

如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So development must take place,". U.S.officials have also called for more development in Pakistan's poor western regions, but powerful Taliban militant groups and ongoing violence have largely stalled significant projects.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

On the other hand,when he, even Oedipus himself, when he understands and he relents,and in a sense he apologizes for what he's done,but more importantly,he ceases,of course, to be powerful and to act in that way,wisdom comes to him.

另一方面,即便是俄狄浦斯自己,当他对他的所作所为开始反思,悔过,更为重要的是他选择了让步,他变得强大,智慧再次降临到他的头上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选