He was not the first person to ask them.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

If you go to any coffee store in America and you ask them, "How many cappuccinos did you sell today?"

如果你去美国的任何咖啡店,你问他们，“你们今天卖出多少杯卡布奇诺？“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Here's my last slide The National Association of Homebuilders surveys its membership to ask them what is the traffic of homebuyers?

最后一张幻灯片,全美房屋建造协会调查了它的成员,询问他们购房者参观量的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We are able to have them interact with American students, but then also ask them any sort of simple questions that you may ask another person: 'What do you like to do for fun?

VOA: special.2010.05.27

But they will grade under my supervision, and in keeping with the standards that I ask them to grade with.

但他们是在我的指导下评分的，也会遵守我告诉他们的评分标准。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And you can ask them any sort of question you want, and they'll look it up in English or in Hindi, or whatever the main language is, and translate the answer right back for you."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

So when someone comes to me, and they're about to do a test, I ask them, what do you expect your program to do?

因此当很多人找到我想要，做一次实验的时候，我问他们你期待你，的程序返回什么结果呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"If you talk of our audiences here in Malawi, if you talk of big names ,ask them, they will say Michael Jackson was the one who inspired them."

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

They didn't know I was going to ask them the question, so I think they are really thrilled when they see their kids making it.

他们不知道我正要,问这个问题，所以当他们看见自己孩子制作的地图,感到很激动。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"If you ask them whether they will receive a pension and what age, they say "I'm not sure whether I will be in the position of pensioners of today."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

So his methods were to ask children to solve problems and to ask them questions.

他所用的研究方法是,要求儿童解决问题,并询问他们一些问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"When we ask them what is the biggest problem in the local areas we find that security takes a back seat and issues like electricity, roads,water,and unemployment come up on top,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Some liberal Democrats worry that the president may ask them to give up too much in the health care debate in the hope of salvaging some sort of political compromise by the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Ask them to give charity.

请富人去搞慈善活动吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So the black players on the team were forced to ask their white teammates to buy food for them.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

It's really fun. You can ask them, "So what were you thinking when you wrote this?" or

这也很有趣。你可以问这些教授，“您在写着一段的时候是怎样想的呢？”，或者说，

布朗的学生们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This week on our program, we ask three generations of people what the holiday for love and romance means to them.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

If they can't help you out, then you go to your professor and you ask them.

如果他们帮不上忙，你就去找教授，问教授。

学习和交际都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It says visitors should think about the objects around them and ask how they were made and for what social and political reasons.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Actually, I had to, a lot of the time, I had to walk down the street and go up to people and ask them questions.

实际上，很多时候，我得走上大街，找人问问题。

在超市遇到的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But most of them would still ask for an A.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

There I am not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reasons for their actions and they, in their humanity, reply to me.

在那儿，我不会羞于与他们对话,及询问关于他们行为的原因,而他们总是慈爱地回答我。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In a country the size of western Europe, we can't be everywhere at the same time, and the hotline allows them to call in no matter where they are and to ask usthe information that we can provide -- even if we're not necessarily able to provide the services directly."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

comes from flawed reports of what people eat, because in order to know what people eat you have to ask them, and even if people are really trying hard to be truthful, it's not the easiest thing to do.

这些信息来自于关于人们饮食缺陷的报告,因为你必须询问人们,吃了什么,尽管人们会尽量实事求是,但这很难做到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"We also owe it to every single one of them to ask the difficult questions about what we are doing in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

I tried calling the hotel to ask them for directions, but the phone is busy.

我试图给酒店打电话询问路线，但电话老是占线。

How can I 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He didn't do anything. He called some friends to ask for help in finding them some tents."

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Okay. So let's--I'm going to ask them to queue the next piece here while we talk about that just for a moment.

我先问问题然后再放下面的一段乐曲,我们刚刚才谈到的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You can ask them to read French and to read Spanish and you can find different locations in the brain that are involved in processing of those different languages.

如果让他看法语和西班牙语,我们就能看到不同的大脑区域,对应不同的语言系统

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选