It was the very image of a future American victory.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.

我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点，然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合，然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It was the first time the world's largest AIDS gathering was held in a developing country and it changed the way future conferences would be held.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Was it going to be in the future or did it take place earlier today?

它是以后才做还是今天早些已经做了？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They were playing slaves and masters, and he was the master, and she was the slave. So, he's imagining their future and talking about it with Magda when they're older.

他们在扮演奴隶和主人，他是主人，她是奴隶，他正在想象他们的未来,当他们老了的时候他会跟Magda谈起今天的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选