Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Or just have the good intentions without the effort that's necessary to bring about a positive exponential function.

还是只有好的意图但不付出,必要的努力发挥正面指数函数的作用。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

because in elementary school and junior high, you have such a variety of skill levels and effort levels.

因为在小学和初中，大家的水平和努力程度不同。

怎么协调意见冲突 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We made a special effort towards the World Cup here in order to really have Africa in the focus,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.

你们也认识到了，因为我们，在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已，或者只是一门主修或选修课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We just have to wait and see for that,". A similar effort to develop a vaccine has been launched in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

If you are like me, too difficult about getting places on time, you have to make an extra effort the way I do, and arrive on time.

如果你们像我一样，容易迟到，你们就要像我一样努把力，要准时上课。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Although he continues to enjoy public support for the effort, experts say the results have been mixed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

And political leaders have represented this to their people as so it were a humanitarian effort which it is But they have not made clear to the people that they are fighting a war, they are fighting a war because of threat to them as well.

政府人员说这是一个人道主义的策略,但是他们并没有说明他们在进行一场战争，因为阿富汗对他们有威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Alongside the additional military forces, civilians have come as well in an effort to shore up the region's infrastructure and provide opportunities for the people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

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

Many liberal Democratic voters have become disillusioned with the compromises made in Congress, and they will be sorely disappointed if the health care effort fails.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

If you have profit sharing in a firm or profit sharing in homework assignment, or any joint projects, you have to worry about too little effort being contributed because there's an externality.

如果你是一个公司的股东,或者和别人一起做作业及其他合作项目,你们需要注意到因为外部性,实际上每个人都付出了较少的努力

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Although interest in the World Expo has declined recently, many countries have made an extra effort to participate this year because China is the host.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

But if you like, want to get that A, you have just like put in like, a lot of effort.

但你要是真的想拿到A，那你就得付出更多的努力。

是考试期间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"It taught me to be dedicated, and that if you want to be successful, you have to put in a lot of time and effort.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Developers who own shopping centers have slashed rents in an effort to keep tenants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

He told them it is critical to continue the effort to transfer skills and tools to Afghans so foreigners do not need to have a permanent presence there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

He says it is part of an effort to show the administration cares about workers who are struggling to pay their bills or have anxieties about losing their jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

"We saw,with the stimulus the effort to rush and spend, what can happen if you jam major legislation before people have an opportunity to understand what is in it,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"we have said that this is a dual track effort there has been an engagement track which we have been very actively engaged in, but there is also a pressure track,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Mr.Obama says the American people also have reason to be proud of the captain who offered himself up as a hostage to the pirates in an effort to protect the crew of his cargo vessel.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

"They have gone through the past month or so of very hard effort to reach the point where they can begin to consolidate and control ground that they have won so, by no means this is over yet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He said it would take longer to convince Afghans that the insurgency is going to fail, because they have been disappointed by the international military effort so far and because many view their government as inconsequential or corrupt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

So I think we need to devote the resources to try to be successful," The general says the U.S.and allied effort also needs to have a significant political and economic component, and that a strong,credible government must emerge from the current election process.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Since the United States took the lead in handling logistics for the international aid effort, some medical groups as well as French and Brazilian officials have complained that U.S.military planes were given priority to land, forcing other flights to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

"The people of Haiti will have the full support of the United States in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble and to deliver the humanitarian relief the food,water and medicine that Haitians will need in the coming days,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

And with respect to the announcement that occurred when the vice president was there, we've expressed our dismay and disappointment and we have, as I said earlier engaged in consultations with our partners in the peace effort - the Israelis and the Palestinians - about the way forward."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"With our turtle release program, it is a compensation-based program where when the fishermen give us a call to go and rescue a turtle, we check the biometric measurements, tag the turtle, and compensate the fishermen for the time and effort they have taken to save these turtles and call us."

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

With medical teams and mobile facilities from several countries already in place in Haiti, the deputy commander of the U.S.military effort there, Army Major General Daniel Allyn, says American priorities have shifted to delivering vehicles to distribute aid, machinery to produce clean water and equipment to clear rubble and begin reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19