"You are going to see an uplift of forces come in and I think you'll start to see this tightening ring of security in and around Kandahar city that I think will then provide the security bubble for governance to start to take in and development to start to take root in Kandahar city."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

I wanted to show you that, so, first thing I'm going to do is say, all right, I know I'm going to need square root in here, so I'm going to, in fact, import math.

我们可以开始完成这个方法了，我想让你们看到完成这个方法的过程，第一件事情就是,我们在这儿需要一个求平方根的方法，实际上我将引入math包。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Then if I'm looking for the square root of something less than 1, I know it will be in my region, right?

如果我要求平方根的数小于,我就知道我们的答案应该,在0-1这个区间了，对不对？

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Also,the root can stay in the ground for as long as three years, so it can be harvested as needed.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

So because so much popular music and particularly rock music has those chords in root position we can track them more readily.

因为很多流行音乐尤其是摇滚乐会在原位上添加这样的和弦,这样听起来会比较悦耳。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

But you do, in fact, have to worry about long-term exposure, cyanide poisoning in terms of long-term effects in certain populations that do get the bulk of their carbohydrates from this root, from the root of the Cassava plant.

但是你确实，不得不担心长时间的接触，氰化物的慢性中毒会对,从木薯根中获取大部分,碳水化合物的部分人群产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They say the roots develop better. But Jeffrey Dinslage, president of Nature Hills Nursery in Omaha,Nebraska, points out that bare-root roses come without soil.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

He was trying to describe electrons, but the theory said there are two roots in the quadratic equation and the second root is mathematically as interesting as the first one.

他当时只是想去描述电子,但是数学理论告诉我们,二次方程有两个根,而第二个根在数学上和第一个根一样有趣

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Yet root beer played a part in shaping the modern food and beverage industry.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

If you had one negative number in it, then the product would be a negative number and, if you took a root of that, then you might get an imaginary number.

如果这当中有一个负数,乘积就会变成负的,如果你对一个负数开根号,你就会得到一个虚数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Root beer can be made with the materials that are readily available in America.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

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But this tasty root vegetable also comes in other colors.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.

正是这种自我统治的愿望，直接统治的愿望，在政治统治中直接参与的愿望，霍布斯视为是,内战一个很重要的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Like potatoes,turnips are root vegetables that grow in the ground.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

The institutions and the ideas therefore, that provide for freedom and improvement in the material conditions of life, cannot take root and flourish without an understanding of how they came about and what challenges they have had to surmount.

故此,这些机制和理念,为物质生活条件的自由和改善,提供了基础,但在不知道其根源且,无法预料的挑战之前,机制和理念是不可能扎根的

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"It's so simple. With a two-liter bottle you add sugar, you add extract, you add a small amount of yeast and water, cap it up and in two days they've got root beer.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.

试想一下，所以这一切，Comus解释到：,小姐，坐，但如果我挥舞这个棒子，你的所有神经都束缚在这个大理岩上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂树那样，被绑在根上逃往阿波罗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

FBI agent Weysan Dun said the probe seeks to root out corruption in New Jersey, wherever it is found.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

I first tested it on the square root of 4 and in one iteration it found 2.

我首先测了下求4的平方根4,它只迭代了一次并返回了2。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"In the longer run you can only curb piracy if you address the root causes on land.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mr.Brown reiterated in the commons that Mr.Karzai must now root out corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Pakistan is an ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism and has been under pressure from Washington to intensify efforts to root out extremists blamed for launching attacks on coalition forces across the border in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They are not under any pressure," Veteran diplomat Francesc Vendrell believes before negotiating with Taliban elements, the West should first try to deal with the root causes of disillusionment in Afghanistan - poor government,corruption, and lack of economic opportunity.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The point I wanted to make is that for every node, except the leaves, the leaves are the bottom of a tree in this case, are weird, right, they draw trees where the root is at the top, and the leaves are at the bottom.

你没必要看到整棵树，我想说的重点是,对每个节点来说，除了叶子节点,叶子节点指的是树的最下面的节点，电脑科学家都很奇怪,他们画树的时候根是在最上面的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So we've looked at how to solve square root we've, looked at two problems, I've tried to instill in you this sense of paranoia which is so valuable, and now we're going to pull back Python and return to something much simpler than numbers, and that's Python. All right?

我们已经研究了如何去求平方根,研究了两种方法,我一直在尝试着给你们逐渐灌输,要偏执的理念，这样的理念非常有价值，现在我们回过头来去学习一些,比数字更简单的东西，也就是,对不对？数学问题很难？

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