And this course in particular isn't at the end of the day about programming even though that is in fact how you will spend a good amount of your time and the skill that you will in fact walk away with.

尤其特别的是,这门课程最终的目标,不是教会你编程,尽管编程会花费你们大量的时间和精力。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.

他花费了很多的时间和精力来研究,人们想要在下个星期买进什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But they spent a lot of time, energy, and money on being sure that they would have a supply of water to hold them for a long siege.

他们花费了大量的时间,精力,和金钱来确保,在长期的围城中他们可以获得足够的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选