it wasn't a real effort to seek the truth,". Israel launched its offensive against Gaza's militant Hamas rulers in an attempt to halt years of rocket fire at Israeli towns.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Externality When I'm figuring out how much effort to contribute to this firm I don't take into account that other half of profits that goes to you.

外部性,当我计算要为公司付出多少时,我没考虑到利润的一半会归你所有

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Again it doesn't require the effort that you'll need in 55 or in English 10A.

再一次它不需要你像55号课和10A号英语课那样的努力。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"I don't think that,uh, unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support, that the war can be won out there."

VOA: special.2009.08.16

So, there's a kind of lost paradise of European culture which he can't get back, even with this spectacular effort in English.

所以，这就是他不能再重新体验的,欧洲文化的失乐园，尽管在英语上做了惊人的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"It was very clear to me that despite this attack and despite the continuing terrorist attacks on Pakistan's cities and towns throughout the region, while I was there, that the humanitarian effort can't be deterred providing food, providing medical care, providing clean drinking water for the more than two million people displaced currently is far too important,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

We just take it for granted that what we're reading is completely within our own horizon and we don't make any effort at all to understand that which is fundamentally or at least in some ways different.

我们想当然地认为,我们读的东西都在自己的视域之中,并不必花费什么精力,去理解那些基本上不同或有些不同的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And then there would be the butchering of the animal, there would be the securing the crops from the fields, and then bringing it to wherever you were going to eat it, which burns more calories and requires more physical effort, compared to the person on the right that really doesn't have to do much at all.

然后,他们要屠宰动物,要看护好地里的庄稼,还要把食物带到进食的地方,与右边的人相比,他们消耗更多卡路里,需要更强的体力,后者根本不必需付出那么多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选