Elections could be at least five years away, while the commodore conducts what he calls a mission to cleanse Fiji of corruption and racism.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

the Thompson is sent with a mission to find out what is the meaning of rosebud ? what was rose then?

汤普森是有任务而去的,他的任务是找出玫瑰花蕾的含义,那么玫瑰又是指什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The Securities and Exchange Commission, from the beginning, had it as its mission to make financial markets work properly; that is a wonderful story.

从成立那天起,证券交易委员会,就肩负着确保金融市场良好运作的使命,这是个利民的机构

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

On the one hand, he says, his reference to a divine mission, he explicitly says there, will be taken by his audience as being just another instance of Socratic irony and insincerity.

一方面，他表示自己所指的神授任务，他很明白地表示，将会被听众误以为只是另一轮的,苏格拉底式讽刺及伪善。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Swigert called to mission control. "Houston,we've had a problem here."

VOA: special.2009.07.22

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

Is she a sleeper Russian spy, one who has spent a lifetime in the United States waiting to fulfill her mission?

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And that's our obligation to send them to war only when we have to, and only when we know they can actually achieve their mission is a key difference between what I advocate and what the neo-cons advocate.

我们有义务,在必须的时候，送他们上战场，我们必须确保,他们一旦奔赴战场就能完成使命,这是重大的不同,我和新型保守派主张的不同之处主要在此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. "NASA has been burdened with a lack of enthusiasm by the taxpayers."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In the first lecture, I talked about a lot of things, but one theme that comes to my mind is the theme of the moral purpose and mission of the finance community.

第一课里，我讲了很多东西，但中心主旨,就是金融界的道德目标和使命。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A police inspector at the site who refused to give his name says Haitian police have radically changed their mission in recent days.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

You want us to go out and protect consumers, well of course that's a nice mission, but that's not our mandate.

如果你想改变这一切去保护消费者，当然，这是个高尚的事情，但是我们OCC没有得到这样的指令。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

McChrystal described a situation in which the Taliban and related groups are advancing, and said he needs more resources to avoid mission failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

U.N.refugee spokesman, Andrej Mahecic,says the UNHCR was part of a joint UN team that has just concluded a joint mission to assess the situation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

this is a NATO mission as well." "And we are working actively and diligently to consult with NATO at every step of the way."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

After completing the mission, the 12 space travelers took a break to talk to the media.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

During the mission, the ship's medical personnel treated close to a thousand seriously injured Haitians.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The United Nations said there was serious damage to the headquarters of its mission in Haiti, and a large number of staff were unaccounted for.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

The U.S.presence,Mr.Obama said, will shift from military to civilian leadership, with a focused mission of training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism operations, and protecting U.S.civilian and diplomatic personnel.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The B-1 is a strategic bomber that was not originally designed to provide direct air support to ground forces, which was the mission in this instance.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

Some 50,000 American troops will remain in the country to focus on training Iraqi soldiers and performing counterterrorism operations under a new mission called "Operation New Dawn."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"Canada is not leaving Afghanistan,". "Canada will be transitioning from a predominately military mission to a mission that will be a civilian humanitarian development mission after 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

They became the first African-American men to fly together on a shuttle mission.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

(SPEAKING) They have come to Washington from across the country in a combative mood with one mission in mind - to stop President Obama's health care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Clinton said Bosworth's mission to Pyongyang will not be a negotiation but rather an effort to pave the way for North Korea's return to the six-party process.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

With a solar powered sail and using the sun and wind to power the batteries, the purpose of the mission is to show that renewable energy works.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human to step on the Moon, observed the extraordinary accomplishment of the Apollo 11 mission forever established a lasting legacy in space flight.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

In a statement issued just before the president's speech, General McChrystal said the long strategy review provided him with "a clear military mission and the resources to accomplish" it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

The new schedule calls for Endeavour to lift off before dawn on Wednesday, the same day that NASA had hoped to launch a separate mission to survey the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16