They say Charlie Brown has failed again to do something right.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Well, things that seem obvious are not obvious and it has something to do with-- something like framing.

看似显然的事情其实并不显见,需要大家打破那个思维的框架。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We really don't know, but it has something to do with "being."

我们并不知道，但它是与某种存在有关系的“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If both chambers can pass legislation, lawmakers would still have to work out differences between the versions before they could send a final bill to President Obama for signature, something he has said he wants to do before the year ends.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

I think that has--my theory--that has something to do with the intellectual atmosphere at universities.

我有个想法...我认为这和,高校里的学术气氛有关

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I mean,how can we say that we want Karzai to do something about his brother's alleged narcotics activities, while apparently the CIA has been paying the same brother?" Former U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann tells VOA he believes President Karzai to be a decent man, but points out that he does not have a great deal of actual power outside of Kabul and has to be very careful about alienating some people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

There are a lot of ways in which a red light means neither "stop" nor "go," but we are sort of confining ourselves so far to the ways in which a red light has something to do with locomotion or the lack thereof.

很多时候红灯既不表示停,也不表示走“,但是我们却惯性的认为,红灯就是提示开始或者停止移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Think about that. That says, if this thing has some particular value, I want to do one thing; otherwise, I want to do something different.

考虑考虑，这意味着，如果这个事情有一些特殊的值，我就去做一件事情;,否则的话，我就会去做另外一件事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The idea was you have to do something that has lot more job securities, something that will bring in a steady income.

作为一个穆斯林，你就应该,做一份比较有保障，收入稳定的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You don't have to do it in the paper, but it should be an argument that has something to say back to those obvious things.

你们不需要在论文里这样做，但是争论中应该,存在一些东西是关于那些明显的事情的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is not something he has chosen to do.

他并未选择进行为邦民答辩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

It has a test in it, which is that while, while something is true, do something, but I want to keep doing it.

也有个测试在里面，也就是那个当，当一件事情为真的时候，做一些操作，但是我想一直进行判断。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选