Sid sneered. 'But to make sure nobody'll let you out, I'll just take this key along.'" "When Nancy could no longer hear the tramp of his heavy boots she was sure Sid had left the house.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's just like you could say some of the principles of mechanics are very obvious, but to make an engine that operates in terms of those principles is not obvious.

这就像你能说,很多机械原理都显而易见，但是要根据这些原理,制作一个能够运转的发动机,就不那么容易了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

but to make their own. The primary or fundamental movements of the new school of the dance must have within them the seeds from which will evolve all other movements, each in turn to give birth to others in an unending sequence of still higher and greater expression,thoughts,and ideas.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

in the context of a web page. And increasingly that is where the human computer interaction is, and so will you be empowered by terms and not to just to make a website per se but to make an application, something that's of interest to you, something that solves problems, something that lets you tell someone through the most electronic means possible that you saw them somewhere on campus.

以网页内容的形式表现出来,人机交互的运用将越来越多，而且你将学会编程,不仅能制作网站，还能做出应用程序，一些你感兴趣的东西，一些解决问题的手段，还有一些可以让你通过使用,现有的电子手段来分辨出,校园里面看到的一个人的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Haley says his goal was not to make Krueger sympathetic, but to make him truly frightening.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But before we do that, I wanted to just make a few concluding remarks about source theory and the Pentateuch.

但在我们开始之前，我想做一个总结,并且来源理论和摩西五经。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"If in the future, banks need exceptional assistance in order to get through this, then we will make sure that assistance comes with conditions, not just to protect the taxpayer, but to make sure this is the kind of restructuring necessary for them to emerge stronger.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

But just to make sure, to stimulate interest, every Tuesday in recitation there'll be a ten minute quiz based upon the content of the homework.

但是只是确认一下，为了激发你们的兴趣，每周二的背诵课,将会有10分钟的测试,内容则是基于你们的作业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But Jim White made it his life's work to make sure the public would see and enjoy the cavern.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

But the point I want to make about it is much more general and we don't have to look at particular cases to make it.

但是我想说的是这是很普遍的,我们不用看很多特例去研究它。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But some management experts warn that limiting pay could make it harder for taxpayers to get their money back.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

We won't make you write dramas like Pirandello, but we're going to try make you at least write good code.

我们的函数中的东西,我们不会让你去写皮兰德娄的荒诞剧,但是我们会教你写漂亮的代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I do not know what else to do but make the best of a bad deal and shake hands over it."

VOA: special.2009.06.27

So, it's perfectly okay to be part of a collaboration, but you've got to make sure that you're pulling your weight.

所以,参与小组讨论是完全允许的,但你要保证你在其中有所作为

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But it is still possible to make paper by hand, since the steps are the same as using big machines.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

When you're serious, any way to win will do, but mostly you could make a virtue of a necessity.

一旦你较真,你会为了胜利不择手段,但通常你会在之前进行道德的考虑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But improved treatments to ease the effects of the disease make it possible for many patients to live almost normal lives.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

She says that she has read a little bit of Kafka and "doesn't know what to make of him, but it makes you a bolder writer."

她说她读一点点卡夫卡的作品,而且“不知道是什么造就了卡夫卡，但这可以让自己成为,一个更大胆的作家“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But a newly announced project to develop soil maps and make them available on the Internet promises help for the situation.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

But charm alone didn't seem to make a great society, according to Tocqueville.

但仅靠魅力不足以使南方成为,一个伟大的社会,托克维尔认为

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But they say the work will make it possible to safely double the number of visitors permitted inside.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

So I'm going to call that chips implanted in the brain to control prosthetics, but I'm going to make it a little bit more general and call a brain-machine interface.

我要谈谈,能控制假肢的植入性脑芯片,我会简要的谈到,我们把它称为脑机接口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But he believed that the people of a territory had the right to make their own decision to accept or reject slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

I mean I'm not going to try to trick you or throw in things just to make sure you come to class, but it's usually a pretty good policy.

我不是和你们耍手段,也不是为让你们来上课而随便说说,但这通常是个好方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I'm not sayin' they'll trouble themselves much to make me welcome, but I got nowhere else to go.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

I'm exaggerating but I do so to make a point.

这是夸张的讲法，但我这么说有其用意。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, this is what you're going to do in the homework assignment, but I'm just going to make the argument that you could also imagine firms sitting somewhere between 0 and 1.

这是你们需要在家庭作业上完成的内容,值得一提的是,你们也可以想象公司在0和1间任何地方

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选