Congress reduced the surplus even more by approving money to build coastal defenses and to buy warships for the Navy.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

That's a beautiful new lounge that the Provost's Office allowed us to build for physicists and chemists, or whoever happens to be in the building.

那是个很漂亮的新休息室,教务处特许,专门为物理系和化学系的学生们修建的,那栋楼里的其他人也可以进去

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It is not about providing opportunities for people to get to know each other and to build friendships.

不是为人们提供机会,互相了解,建立友谊。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He was to help the government build an army for defense purposes as the Philippines began planning for independence.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

We were working to build our health services and counseling service capacities, and so it was a great opportunity for me to learn about being a dean.

我们忙着建立,自己的健康和咨询服务中心，所以这对我来说是个大好机会,我可以去学习怎样当个院长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Clay urged his friends in the border states between North and South to try to build public support for the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So there are two other models, then, models different from the immigration model, two other models for understanding the formation of Israel, that build on this archaeological evidence.

那么还有两个其他的模型，与移民模型不同的两个模型，这两个模型也是为了说明以色列的形成，它们是依据考古学证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It could help him build a new political party, a party that might elect him president for another four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

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

We have a lot of freedom to build and design airplanes for our own use and build them and fly them."

VOA: special.2010.07.30

It's so important for us at EPA to build and continue to build our recognition and our mission with the youth.

对环境保护署来说,在年轻人心中建立并不断完善,对我们使命的认知是十分重要的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

And for those in the northwest, it called for free land for settlers, and federal aid to build roads and canals.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

This is insurance that you pay each year for insurance in that year and it does not build a cash value.

为了这种保险可以持续生效,你每年都要缴纳保费,保费不产生现金价值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Miz Mankiller led efforts to build more houses and health care centers and expand educational possibilities for her tribe.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

If we build an engine for a car or anything else, it almost always is going to have some key element that's operating in a cycle, otherwise it won't keep going, right.

如果我们为一辆汽车，或其他什么东西制造一台引擎,它总要有一些关键，要素来形成循环。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Today,Miz Goodall spends most of her time traveling around the world speaking about wildlife protection and working to build support for her foundation.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

So even within this framework of, given a description of a computation as a set of steps, in the idea that I could build a circuit to do it, let me suggest for you what would be a wonderful circuit to build.

所以即使需要在将计算描述，当成一系列步骤中的一步,这个框架之内,我也完全可以建立一个线路,来完成那个想法，让我为你们假设能建造起,一个多么棒的线路吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The government later expanded the house and used the land to build the Soldiers' Home for veterans.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

What you have to do is have the courage to say I have got to account for the bad data, what I think are bad data and the data that helped me build my theory.

你们要做的就是，鼓起勇气来说,我已经解释出了那些劣质的数据，和我认为是劣质的数据,还有那些帮助我建立理论的数据。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They could build new farms for themselves in the rich land of the American west.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Now, the best possible response would be for the physicalist to say, "Here's how to build a machine that can be conscious in this sense.

物理主义者们现在,能做出的最好的回答就是,从这个意义上去理解,就能造出一台,具有意识的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The next year, American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called for the two countries to "explore further ways to build mutual confidence and avoid misunderstandings."

VOA: special.2010.09.25

They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Officials say he bought materials to build explosive devices and traveled to New York City on September tenth as part of planning for an attack.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

So, you also build these houses for people to live in.

当然,房子造起来就是给人住的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He began to build support for General Taylor among Whig politicians.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Well, for instance, you could build machines that when babies suck on a pacifier they hear music or they hear language, and then you could look at how much they suck on the pacifier to determine what they like.

举例来说,你可以制造一个机器,每当婴儿吮吸奶嘴,他们就会听到音乐或是话语,然后你可通过观察婴儿有多喜欢吮吸奶嘴,来确定他们喜欢音乐还是话语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选