He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

It's a ladder used to ascend a tree, it's a kind of tool of ascent that's a kind of a tool for getting fruit.

这是用来爬上树的梯子，是一种上升的工具,也是用来摘果子的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I want to make it a little more explicit, and I want to show you a tool for doing that.

我想讲的清楚一点，并且我，还会给大家介绍一个做这个的工具。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Their documentation can be used in the future as a study tool and for language protection efforts,if needed.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

So, think about the birches as a tool, another tool, but this time a tool for play, a tool for playing alone.

把桦树看成一种工具，另一种工具，但是这次是玩的工具，只是玩的工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The Pakistani government has repeatedly said such attacks kill mostly civilians and only serve as a recruitment tool for Islamic militants.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

it's too easy but it's also too delicious to take this little biographical fact of Milton's college nickname and use it in some way as a tool for reading A Mask.

这简单却有趣,把弥尔顿大学时的昵称记事,利用并作为一种工具去阅读《面具》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Collecting food and medical supplies is a common tool for many Cuban-Americans to offer person-to-person assistance to people on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Economists have long considered government spending, especially on infrastructure, to be an effective tool for revitalizing a stagnating economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Religion can be a divisive tool, but it can also be one allows for dialogue, allows for conversation.

宗教有时是分割彼此的因素，有时也是,允许更多对话交流的工具。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She says the online tool was very effective for those who used it at least once a month.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

And I think the fact that our foreign investments are generally denominated in currencies other than the dollar is also attractive -a good diversifying tool for the university.

我认为,我们的资产中,有用非美元计价的国外投资,这点也是相当有吸引力的,对学校来说是个很好的多元化延伸

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Make no mistake," "We will close Guantanamo prison which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaida."

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

Well, it would be useful because if I could take cells from the skin, find stem cells in the skin and then de-differentiate them so that they were now capable of becoming liver, or brain, or things that they're not going to become in their normal site, then that could be a very powerful tool for medicine.

这是因为,如果我能取一些皮肤细胞,找一些皮肤干细胞,并将它们去分化,那它们就能分化成肝脏,大脑或其他一些,它们原本分化不出来的细胞,这可以成为一个医学利器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Hunt's computer program gives them a useful new tool for addressing the problem.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It's an example of a very common tool that's going to be really useful to us, not just for doing search, but for doing a whole range of problems. That is, in essence, the template the describes a log style algorithm.

不仅仅是做搜索,还可以解决一整类问题,本质上，这个模板就描述了,对数形的算法,我们一会再回来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You then go to dinner, you come back and you realize that your roommate has now vested you by five seconds and three hours later you've inched ahead again ; so it's a wonderfully motivational tool; and speaks to just how addictive frankly this stuff was and that too for me.

然后你去吃饭,回来后意识到你的室友已经快你五秒钟,三小时后你再次小幅领先,所以这是一个奇妙的激励工具;,坦率地说这东西多么的诱人,对我来说也不例外。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So you have to somehow convert the source code, the C code into 0s and 1s and for that process there exist this tool called a compiler that someone else wrote that takes this stuff as input and produces this stuff as output.

所以你必须把源代码，即C语言代码转换成二进制文件,这个过程就需要我们提到的编译器了,它是由别人编写的一个软件，以这些代码作为输入,将会产生的输出。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

OK, so how can I code this up? Well, you might think, let's just jump in and write some code, I don't want to quite do that though, because I want to show you another tool that's valuable for thinking about how to structure the code, and that is a something called a flow chart. Now.

好，那么我怎么把这个以代码实现呢，你可能会想，让我们进去直接写代码把,但是我不想这么做，因为我想教给大家另外一项很有价值的,用来组织代码的工具，叫做流程图,现在，像Guttag教授,和我这么大岁数的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选