I am unaccustomed to being told what to do.

我没有听人使唤的习惯。

《牛津词典》

If that does not mean being creative and adapting to change, then I am not sure what it does mean.

如果这不意味着创造力和适应变化的话，那么我就不知道它究竟意味着什么了。

youdao

They actually are pretty much only being taught historical criticism, what the text meant in the ancient world, just like I am teaching you in this class.

但实际上大多数老师，只教了他们历史批判主义，教他们如何用历史眼光看待经文，就像我在课上教你们的一样。

youdao

We simply cannot do it. And so as a consequence, what I am doing is I am being briefed consistently, my national security team is fully up to speed on it.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

President SARKOZY: (Through translator) What am I being criticized for?

NPR: Sarkozy Upsets French With U.S. Vacation

What am I not being told?

FORBES: Connect

Mr. CHRIS BASKIND: Everything seems to be being reduced to how much carbon dioxide am I producing, or what kind of greenhouse gases we should be finding a way to sequester.

NPR: Environmentalists Point Beyond Global Warming