And,if you wish someone good night, you might say, "sleep tight -- don't let the bed bugs bite."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I would never wish to duplicate that, however, I think there's a take-away.

我不会再来一次，但是，我想人们应该从中得到些什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Okay, have to stop there--might add a word or two-- but on Thursday we turn, I'm afraid with a certain awkwardness; I wish there were an intervening weekend, to Freud and Peter Brooks.

好的，必须在此停下了，再加一两句-,到周四我们将会，恐怕有点尴尬;,我希望会有一个周末，留给弗洛伊德和彼得，布鲁克斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I wish schools should change their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

And I think sometimes on the teeter-totter of each of those three dimensions were teetering where I wish we were tottering a little more as our products are more complicated.

我想有时这就像坐跷跷板,三个维度都在摇晃不定，无法抉择,比我们的产品生产还复杂一些。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In Brazil,many people flock to Copacabana beach to ask the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea, Iemanja,a wish in exchange for a gift.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

She was meant to remember. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding time among the beasts in a zoo, any death wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

她生来就是为了回忆的，她面临着一种可能性,当她在一个高高的阳台看着玩具街时，当她坐过山车时，当她在动物园里喂野兽时，通过一个小小的手势。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Fair-goers can take part in ritual cleanings and make a wish for the New Year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

The climate out there is beautiful, especially if you feel that on a winter's day like today, you might wish you were in--some of you might wish you were there.

那里的气候宜人,尤其是在像今天一样的冬天里,你可能会希望...,你们当中的一些人也许会对它心存向往

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

As August 1969 fades farther into the past, the Woodstock Festival continues to enjoy a near-mythic status, both for those who were there and for the millions who wish they'd been there.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We also wish to reiterate the calls by the African Union, SADC,COMESA , the non-aligned movement and China to those who have imposed illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe, to leave them without further delay,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选