Instead,they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It probably teaches each of them a good deal to be able to accommodate, to encounter, to get used to the ironies of the other, and I think this applies to conversation in general.

或许正是这种共生关系,教会了双方很多东西,使他们学会怎样提供，发现，并习惯对方的讽刺，我想这适用于一般的谈话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, you've got to get used to the notion of what will be given in general and what is tailor-made to the occasion.

所以你们要习惯这些符号,有些是通用的,有些只适合于特定情形

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The zoo has been preparing for Tai's send-off, helping him get used to the crate that will be used to transport him.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

When you get a bagel, it used to be you'd get something this size, and now you get something that's really, really much bigger.

百吉饼,过去人们吃的是冰球大小的,而现在已经比过去大了非常多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"One of the things we need to start doing is to get ahead of the curve by trying to anticipate additional methods that can be used against us and closing the gaps before those gaps are exploited,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

It used to be that people would hide money in their house and it would frequently get stolen and it didn't earn any interest.

过去人们往往是将钱藏在家里,经常被盗不说,还没有任何利息收入

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A sleep macho used to be "I only get forty-two minutes of sleep a night."

夸大数字的那些人,“我一晚只睡了42分钟”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this exercise of being able to work In these three different modes, economic intuition, graphs, and kind of nerdy high school math is a lot of what we want to get you used to as Economic Majors, just to be able to translate easily between those.

这个练习可以用,三种不同的方法解决,即,经济直觉,图表,和一些讨厌的高中数学,希望经济学专业的同学能掌握这些方法,对于这些方法能够随手拈来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选