It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

So a bit of uninteresting math, a bit of focus on sizes of types, but any questions on syntax or concepts thus far before we now put this to the test?

一些比较无趣的数字，一些关于类型的大小,在我们现在进行试验之前,你们对这其中的语法或概念有什么问题吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So before I try and run my program, I test each part of it independently.

因此在我尝试运行我的程序之前，我都会对它的每个部分进行独立的测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.

VOA: special.2011.01.20

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The Eagle has landed." NASA's plan had called for the astronauts to test instruments, eat and then rest for four hours before leaving the Eagle.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And test the soil before adding lime and fertilizer.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

You can't cram information about music, the sound of music, into your head the night before a test the way you might be able to in an English course or a history course.

你不可能像对待英语课,或者历史课考试那样在考试前一天晚上,将音乐中的信息或者将声音死记硬背,以便应付考试

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I can build class stock, and I can test class stock, before I have a class market.

我可以建立一个stock类，然后在有macket类之前测试这个类。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

OK.Let's look at the code-- actually, let's test this out first before we do it.

因此我已经添加了，就像Guttag教授做的那样-啊，应该这么说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选