"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And he follows that initial ordering by setting up celestial bodies, just as Marduk did.

他通过建立天体来遵循最初的宇宙秩序，就像Marduk所做的一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The dancers used their bodies to express the setting where the poem takes place, in a kingdom by the sea.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

So in fact, it is the case, if you look at data, and by the way, that's the way I ended up setting a lot of these parameters and playing with it, was comparing what my simulation said to historical stock data.

所以实际上，在这个例子中，如果你看到数据，顺便说一下，这就是我设置很多变量,然后编程的方式，也就是把我的仿真程序得到的结果,和历史股票数据进行比较。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"We can do more good setting an example and being friends and business associates than we can by ostracizing them."

VOA: special.2010.02.04

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Woods spoke for more than 13 minutes in a tightly controlled setting that was covered live by the major television networks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

It was the setting of a poem by Friedrich Schiller called-- Ode to Joy?

这也是弗里德里希·席勒的组诗,叫做,欢乐颂

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

A document setting out rules for democratic succession was approved almost three years ago, but has been ratified by only three of the 15 countries needed to take effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

By linking the goal to its gross national product rather than setting an absolute emissions target, China - the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases may actually see its total emissions increase over the next decade, even if it meets the voluntary target.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

This urban setting has been pointed out by anonymous tipsters, who have come forward after 25 years, as the suspected final resting place of at least four people who disappeared during the civil war that raged in Guatemala during the 1980s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18