Supporters say the standards are goals and do not tell states or teachers how to teach.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

And that's basically trying to make sure our program has not regressed, as to say, gone backwards in how well it works. And so we always test it on everything.

这只是从根本上确保,我们的程序并没往后退，也就是说在可用性方面倒退了,因此我们在任何东西上,都要进行这样的测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But if you say, well, I don't know how to do this, I am not going to bother, don't grade the paper.

但是如果你说，好吧，我不知道怎么做这个，我想麻烦，别给试卷评分。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

South Korean officials have demanded a formal apology from the North and say they have not yet decided whether and how to pursue the matter further.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But he did not say how the Palestinian authorities planned to do that, since the Gaza Strip is under the control of Hamas and not the Palestinian Authority.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The secretary general would not say when the transition might start, how long it will take, or when it might be possible to start reducing the NATO troop commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

and coalition forces to the Afghans. Announcing an increase of 30,000 U.S. troops last week, U.S.President Barack Obama said they will begin to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces by July of 2011, but he did not say how long the transition will take.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"My brother and I were talking about how - normally you do not just walk up to a temple or a synagogue and say, 'hey,can I come in and take a look?' So this is a great opportunity and exposes me to a lot of things that I would not otherwise have been exposed to,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.19