Woods spoke for more than 13 minutes in a tightly controlled setting that was covered live by the major television networks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Some of you might have seen, we had been setting up a number of ways for us to reach out to our customers.

有人可能已经注意到了，我们开通了很多渠道,来与客户接触。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

The business council says it is also time for start work on setting a timeline for establishing an APEC free trade agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

For instance, when we deal with one another in a legal and a moral setting, we think in terms of free will and responsibility.

举个例子,当我们在一套法律和道德系统中,与其他人相处时,我们会从自由意志和责任的角度进行思考

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Because we asked, and other parties asked, three years ago three and a half years ago for the setting up of the Iraq Inquiry."

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

So for a literal definition of what strategic means: it's a setting where the outcomes that affect you depend on actions, not just on your own actions, but on actions of others.

策略形势书面定义是,行为影响结果,然而结果不仅,取决于你的行为 还取决于其他人的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Sunday that his government will work for a positive outcome at next month's crucial United Nations summit on setting targets for carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Freud lives on both in a clinical setting and in the university but Freud at Yale, for instance, is much more likely to be found in the history department or the literature department than in the psychology department.

虽然在临床和大学中,都会有涉及到弗洛伊德的理论,但是，以耶鲁为例，你更可能在历史系或是文学系,听到弗洛伊德的理论,而不是在心理学系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A document setting out rules for democratic succession was approved almost three years ago, but has been ratified by only three of the 15 countries needed to take effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Political analysts say Republican victories in both Virginia and New Jersey would encourage party activists and energize Obama opponents, setting up a major battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

It also comes in the wake of the Pope's visit, which I think is also setting the groundwork for sort of a cultural dialogue, an attempt to have a new start at the level of symbols and culture and try and erase some of the hostility of the last 8 or 9 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.09