But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

you should be given the opportunity to work to make it louder.

你应该获得相应的机遇，通过努力提高自己的话语权。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When you look at this theory, you realize that it suggests a very important technology for improving human welfare and by spreading risks.

这一理论，提出了一个重要的技术,即可以通过分散风险，提高收益。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's why there's a lot of emphasis on sharpening your teeth by doing this class of problems.

这就是为什么强调要通过解决这些问题,来提高你的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Now we're doing the same for IT, using standards, taking things that are in what's this big bucket known as services and really encapsulating them in the form of services and products, but in a much more cost-effective way, using standards.

现在对于整个信息技术行业我们也采取这种方法，使用标准,通过服务,注入产品和服务，通过标准，提高成本效率。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Well you could stretch it and say that an example of engineering to improve human health is getting them from one place to another, but that would be more of a stretch than I'm going to make.

你只能勉强地说,这个工程学成果能通过把人们从一个地方,带到另一个地方来提高人的健康水平,我只能联想到这个程度

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We'll talk about whether food can promote health; of course it can if done right, and we'll talk about the specific properties of food that promote good health and what can be done to increase the opportunity of food to improve the public's health in a national and international way.

我们将讨论食物是否能促进健康,当然,适当的饮食能促进健康,我们还将讨论健康食品的特殊性质,以及我们如何,通过食物来提高,全国乃至全世界公众的健康水平

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

During the war the government needs resources; it's in trouble; it raises taxes to try to pay for the war but then it finds it unable to collect taxes well.

在战争期间，政府需要资源；,它处于困境之中；,它通过提高税收来为战争支付开销,但是它又会发现自己不能够很好的得到税收资金。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选