After the whale was dead, the sailors would then slowly and with great effort take it all the way back to the ship.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

It was highly elevated above all other priorities and absort the lion share of effort and attention of the White House.

是压在所有其他首要任务之上的,在白宫人力物力方面,都占了很大的比重。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

His biggest effort was a shipping company to trade goods among black people all over the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.20

It's an international effort to recommend regulations for countries all over the world.

向世界各国推行监管制度,是个全球性的努力目标

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He is a geneticist who led the effort to map all the human genetic material,DNA.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

That leads all of us to put in too little effort.

这会导致大家都减少付出

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And, we will tell about an effort to count all of the world's sea life.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

But the point is Reagan supported that effort and that made all the difference, and it took a lot of courage Reagan was going to take the recession in 1982 He was willing to support Volker no matter what to get the inflation down ... Alright, so... Interest rates in the summer of 1980 were quite high Yes, they were.

但是，里根力挺了这次货币改革,这才是重点，下这样的决心不容易,里根本打算在1982年来狠抓经济衰退2,他很信任沃尔克,为了降低通胀率，可以不惜一切代价,好吧，那么。,1980年夏天，银行利率已经相当高了,没错，确实如此。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

And then there would be the butchering of the animal, there would be the securing the crops from the fields, and then bringing it to wherever you were going to eat it, which burns more calories and requires more physical effort, compared to the person on the right that really doesn't have to do much at all.

然后,他们要屠宰动物,要看护好地里的庄稼,还要把食物带到进食的地方,与右边的人相比,他们消耗更多卡路里,需要更强的体力,后者根本不必需付出那么多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Fan says the Aceh relief effort is motivated in part by gratitude for all the help Aceh received after the tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Mr.Obama says helping the financial sector is one aspect of an all-out effort to shore up the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

President Obama urged the American people to do all they can to support the aid effort.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

At worst,the effort would be counter-productive and would not reduce the threat at all.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

And Russia,the U.S.partner on strategic arms reduction and in the effort to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, has not been at all happy about that.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Britain's new cabinet agreed to cut the pay of all ministers by five percent, the first step in what is to be a major effort to cut Britain's national deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

"As I've said from the day I took office, it's going to take months, even years, to dig our way out - and it's going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

General Motors says it will lay off nearly 50,000 employees this year and that it plans to close five assembly plants, eliminate thousands of dealerships and reduce the number of its brands from eight to four - all in an effort to stay afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

So we thought that it's timely, especially that this year, there was a great effort by UNAIDS invested in the region to ensure that all the countries will actually report and live up to their commitments made to the 2001 Declaration in the U.N.General Assembly Special Session on HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07