and the USA Today newspaper said there is "a yawning need for clarity" and warned against trying to use half-measures to achieve important goals.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

But in terms of SI units, which become much more useful if you're actually trying to use intensity in a problem and cancel out your units, we're just talking about joules per second is what intensity is.

但是用国际单位制，这个变得越来越有用了,如果你实际上在使用强度,来解决问题和约化单位，我们仅仅讨论每秒钟的焦耳,这就是强度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But if you're trying to use that virus as a gene delivery vector and your body gets rid of it then the therapy has failed, it's ended.

但如果你想把腺病毒作为基因治疗载体,而你的身体清除这种病毒,治疗就失败了,前功尽弃了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And that's what they're up to - trying to use the rationale of a legitimate space launch for a missile, which is in its foundation a military missile,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The format is the same. I'm going to ask for some input, and then I am going to use that procedure to check, is this the right type of value. And I'm trying to use that to do the coercion if you like. Same thing if it works, I'm going to skip that, if it not, it's going to throw the exception.

格式是一样的，我需要一些输入,然后我要用一个过程来检查,是否是正确的值,然后你就可以做强制转换了,如果能运行，那是一样的，我打算跳过这段，如果不正确，那就会抛出一个异常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Medical workers in Haiti are now trying to spread the message not to use river water without some form of purification.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

c We know it's very specific for light because in this equation is c, the speed of light. So any time you go to use this equation, if you're trying to use it for an electron, just ask yourself first, does an electron travel at the speed of light?

我们知道它只对光适用是因为在这个方程里有,光速，所以下次你们用这个方程前，如果你们要把它用到一个电子上，先问问你自己，电子的运动速度是光速吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now to the wordplay. Commentators and bloggers often use the word "gate" when a politician is accused of trying to hide the truth.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says the army has been trying very hard to use measures to end the protest while avoiding any losses.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

It sounds like a hifalutin phrase you use when you're trying to persuade a VC to fund you. Right So to answer this, we really have to ask a different question, a related question; so, what's computation?

这听着很像当你试图,让VC语言帮你的时候说的大话,对，所以为了回答这个问题，我们需要提出一个难题，一个有关的问题；,因此，什么是计算相关呢？？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Space Florida, the agency responsible for developing the state's aerospace sector, says it is trying to attract new industries that use space-based technologies.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Environmentalists are trying to encourage Sierra Leone's salt producers to use other methods, including drying salt in the sun, to reduce the strain on mangroves.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"These ideas are probably better seen in some European communities where they have a long tradition of trying to preserve their historical development identity and had,in the past, much more orientation to walking and the use of transit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26