He had a strong desire to control every element of the production and marketing of his films.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

But the second is a desire to attract and maintain the divine presence, the continued presence of God in the sanctuary.

第二个是一种欲望，想要吸引和保持，上帝长久存在于圣所内的欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We think that anticipation is a powerful evoker of desire, and we think that brain activation can reflect that.

我们认为,预期是有关欲望的一种有效观测手段，同时我们认为，大脑活动能够将其反映出来。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind immediately is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We quickly learned that we had overestimated everything: the ability of our vehicle, the distance we could travel in a day, the amount of money we needed and our desire to be away from home.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The desire to woo Western audiences got a boost after the runaway success of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It's interesting how humans and plants have evolved together, and there's a very interesting book on this by Michael Pollan called, The Botany of Desire.

人和作物如何共同演化,这问题很有趣,迈克尔·保伦就此写了本很有意思的书,《植物的欲望》

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Obama administration's desire for a viable U.S.auto industry might include the resignation of one of its major players.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Plato's desire for a kind of radical makeover, of Athenian and Greek political institutions and cultures, grew out of his experience of political defeat and despair.

柏拉图想要彻底改变，雅典及希腊,政治制度及文化的欲望，来自他的,政治挫折及失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Well,when you see the device, what comes to mind is that you have a whole lot of desire but not a whole lot of technical ability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

So nonetheless,the desire for a good commercial opportunity might well have been one of the elements that these people who were leaving their home cities sought.

但是,对于贸易机遇的渴望应该是,驱使古希腊人背井离乡的,一个重要因素

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The much-criticized electoral commission chairman Maurice Iwu blames a desperate political class motivated largely by a desire to enjoy the profits of office for Nigeria's electoral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Yeats seems to be reversing this trick in "The Fisherman," seems to be converting myth back into reality the ideal object of desire from a glimmering girl back into a trout.

叶芝好像在渔夫一诗里,颠倒了这一转变“,好象是把神话转回现实,欲望的理想载体从,若隐若现的姑娘变成了鳟鱼。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Retired Indian army Major General Dipankar Banerjee, dismisses worries of a potential coup and Indian re-intervention, but says Fonseka may desire to use the latter possibility for political currency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

A lot of defense mechanisms involve taking a desire and turning it.

很多的防御机制都涉及欲望和欲望的转换。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The film was a British production, which used Bollywood talent and was shot in the slums of Mumbai fueled the desire among Bollywood production houses to make a similar hit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There are all sorts of security problems. And then there are problems that we in the West would perhaps regard as a little less legitimate, like the simple desire of authoritarian governments to keep tabs on what their people are thinking and doing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And what struck me most about conversations that I had, either in Leverett or other houses, were students is their sense of mission,your sense of mission, your desire to do good, to make the world a better place.

在与学生的交谈中，让我印象最深的是，无论是在莱弗里特宿舍或其他地方，学生们的使命感，你们的使命感，你们对成功的渴望，让世界变得更美好的愿望。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Nesterenko says if there is persistence, political will, and genuine desire to make a qualitative move away from the level of relations that characterized recent years and away from the standstill that affected the bilateral agenda, then a new treaty is entirely within reach.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

There is a blunting in this activation, and this blunting is correlated with this schizophrenic self-reported lack of desire negative symptorms.

这部分的活动被关闭了，而这种关闭活动的结果和精神分裂症患者,缺少欲望症状的报告相符。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"I'm coming in contact now with a lot of young immigrants and I find a lot of hope in their desire to continue to advocate for improvements and to not hide their issues or their concerns, but to participate in the society in a democratic way, whatever their legal status."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

He wants to keep anticipating producing the great speech, ; which is exactly what the Lady has been doing; but on the other hand Milton's possessed of a competing desire to speak and to speak now -- to publish, to succeed, to consummate his talents.

他想要一直预先准备好伟大的演说，这也正是女士一直在做的;,但是另一方面，弥尔顿也有强烈矛盾地的欲望想要,演说--立即演说，想要出版，成功，最大程度发挥他的才能。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And I would suggest to you that the consumption of home is driven by a certain kind of desire as well, that desire to move up in the American class structure: "the first electric refrigerator in my family."

而我的看法是对家的消耗,也是由一种特定的渴望驱动的，这种渴望上升到美国的阶级结构：,“我们家的第一台电冰箱“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, one might expect that the author of a book entitled The Prince would favor the great, would favor the grandi, those who desire to rule.

现在，人们可能会预料写下了《君主论》这书,的作者，一定倾向于支持强势者，支持大人物，也就是那些有支配欲望的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In a famous passage from chapter 11 he posits, as he puts it, "a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire " of power after power that ceaseth only in death."

在第十一章的著名段落里，他说，“全人类共有的普遍倾向是,得其一思其二，死而后已,永无休止的权势欲“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It can signify battle, but Hobbes says it can also signify the will to contend, simply the desire or the will to engage in conflict, " renders something like a state of nature.

这可以表示为斗争，但霍布斯说这同样可以表示竞争的意志，仅仅就是参与冲突的欲望或愿望，这些构成了“自然状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选