They wanted to start a fight. They would wait for someone to be brave enough to try to hit it off.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.

作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

that's not what I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life.

我不想下半辈子都做这行。

重新开始学业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They wanted to set up a government for the United States where slavery would be banned.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Nash wanted his jazz composition for this artist to be swinging, and make you feel good.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

But I had family in the New York area, and I wanted to be closer to them, and I wanted to give my daughters the opportunity for a multicultural community environment.

但我在纽约地区有家人，我想靠他们近一些，而且想让我的女儿们有机会,融入多元群体的环境中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Republicans thought this meant that Blaine wanted to be nominated for president again.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

If somewhere later on in the code it shifts to string, I might not be manipulating that and getting actual values out, but not what I wanted, and it's going to be really hard for me to chase it back.

然后后面的一些代码,把变量类型变为了字符串，我可能不会通过实际操作,去取得实际的变量的类型，但是这并不是我想要的类型,而且对我来说把类型，变回去也很困难。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She wanted to be known only for her music.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

You wanted to be finding the cure for cancer, but you're not actually finding the cure for cancer.

你想找到治疗癌症的方法，但你实际上没有在找治疗癌症的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"He said Mister Clay seemed to be very weak and had a very bad cough, that he was sure Mister Clay wanted to do something for the good of his country during the little time he had left on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

I wanted this car mostly to be a house for me," he said to the man.

我想要这车成我的房子“,他对那个男人说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

but I did get kind of fit for the film because every cheese farmer is ripped and buff and I wanted to be true to character because I'm 'method' ."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Even though it would be easy and it is ripe for the picking, we wanted to be more of an homage to that type of storytelling because I think it has a really powerful message.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Two is it gives you some sense for how concerned parents were about the risks of polio in the community and how much they wanted a vaccine to be developed, such that they gave permission for their children to enter into this trial.

第二是,它能让你了解,父母们对孩子,罹患小儿麻痹症的风险的关心程度,以及对疫苗的渴望程度,这使得他们同意让他们的孩子,参与到这种实验中

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Mr.Bani Sadr argues the Iranian people have good reason to be upset with the results of the election: He insists that for a population that wanted to express itself and vote, this kind of fraud is unacceptable and thus people have taken to the streets to protest.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

This is generally the general introduction of the brain that I wanted to provide, giving the framework for what I'll be talking about later on throughout the course so that I might later on make reference to neurons or neurotransmitters or the cortex or the left hemisphere and you'll sort of have the background to understand what I'm talking about.

以上这些就是我所要讲的,关于大脑的综述,为我以后要讲的课程,建立起框架,往后我可能会提到神经元,神经递质,大脑皮层,或是大脑左半球,而拥有了背景知识的你们,便能够理解我在讲些什么

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There must be fundamental reasons for it and I wanted to go over some of the fundamental reasons why we have banks.

它的形成必有其根本的原因,下面我就阐述银行产生的一些基本原因,为什么会有银行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选