"Even if you are not a celebrity, if you are not rich, if you are not famous, you can do something to help make this world a better place."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I find that every time we do our meditation on Thursday, I'm always running to make it, or something happened before I get there, I'm like "Oh my God, meditation!"

我发现每次我们周四,要冥想时，我总是匆匆赶过去，或者是到达之前发生一点事故，我就好像“天哪，要冥想！“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"And what incentive programs do is make it more favorable for you to overcome that tendency to procrastinate doing something now."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Now to make that happen, it's not adiabatic, right. If I wanted to do that, I'd need a heating element or something to cool, so I could make that temperature change happen, right.

要实现这点，它就不会是绝热的，对吧，如果我想做到这点,我需要一个加热元件或什么制冷的东西,这样我才能让温度变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And what programs like this do for the inmates, it was something that we said 'you know, let's make it into a documentary."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

What do you have to have to make something a song?

一首歌里,哪些因素不可或缺呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We did make errors, but we had a lot of fun doing it. Being the first ones to do something that gigantic was very exciting."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

So, make it do something.

那么，让它做点东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And this is called the Pratfall Effect, that our liking for the competent person grows when they make a mistake, when they do something embarrassing, when they have a failure experience. Okay?

心理学上，这叫“失态效应，我们对有能力之人的喜爱之情再次升华,当他们犯错，出洋相，经历很衰的事情时？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You've got to make sure that if you explain to others how to do this problem, then somebody else contributes to something else, but you know what everybody contributed in the end.

你得能保证,如果你和别人解释了题目的解法,然后另一个人对别的题目又有独到见解,最后你知道每个人都没有浑水摸鱼

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It's really been a powerful tool in molecular biology because I might have a very small copy of a gene that I'm interested in and I can make enough copies that I can start to do something else with it.

这确实是分子生物学的一项利器,因为我可能只有,很少量的感兴趣的基因拷贝,而我可以马上制造出足够数量的复制品,能使我用作其他用途

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Or are you going to say that that will only take us so far, and it's the conditions that are messed up, and we have to do something about the conditions to make it easier for people to make healthier choices?

还是认为上述做法见效甚微,问题关键在于混乱的饮食环境,我们应该先改善周遭环境,使得人们更容易作出更为健康的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If it doesn't make sense, you'll-- If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point, if it's something that you do that's foolish or makes you look manipulative or cheap, you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.

如果你的行为不合理，你会…,如果你的行为不合理，或者更确切的地说，如果你的行为很愚蠢,或者让你显得很攻于心计，或很廉价，你就会捏造理由说服自己这是合理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选