If he takes the medicine his doctor ordered early in his headache, it controls the pain.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

He takes it for granted that he is the most rational and systematic of all thinkers and raises questions about since we all take ourselves to be rational too raises questions about just how we know ourselves not to be paranoid delusives like Don Quixote.

他理所当然地认为,自己是所有思想者中最理性，最有条理的,他提出,既然我们也认为自己很理性,我们如何证明自己,不像堂吉诃德一样处于妄想之中呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But he says it would not be right for him to speak at length about the conflict until he takes office on January 20th.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

He takes the carcass; he slices it into two halves, Rather like a clamshell, and out of the top half he creates the firmament, the Heaven.

他提起死尸，将它劈成两半，就像掰开贝壳一样，用死尸的上半部分，他创造了苍穹，也就是天空。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"The president has called for focusing in on what it really takes to be successful in work and in college, and he has called on America's educational institutions, primary and secondary educational institutions, to do whatever it takes to get our kids college ready.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

It's as if he's become Apollo as he himself takes over the action of touching.

似乎他自己将要变成阿波罗,接过触动别人的重任那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

After almost 20 years in the casting business, Wolfe says he knows what it takes to become a star.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It's as if Richard takes those words, and he makes them his own, takes them from his father and gains a different kind of strength from them, a strength he can then use to get back at his father.

理查按父亲说的做了，就如同把父亲说的，复制于他的大脑中一样,似乎从中获得了一种，不同寻常的报复方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Prime Minister George Papandreou has said he will do whatever it takes to save the economy, no matter how painful.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The poetry that Yeats wants from this place, the place that the fisherman takes him to, it's going to be cold and passionate as he describes it.

叶芝想从诗里这个地方得到的，渔夫把他带往的，正如他所描写,将会是寒冷而有激情的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Bandic claims his experience as Zagreb mayor in the past 10 years shows that he knows what it takes to be president.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

And then he just takes that narrow column of light and he admits it to a prism. And what the prism does is takes a tiny, tiny difference in wavelength and refracts it through a different angle.

他只取了那个窄光柱,然后把它对准一个棱镜，棱镜所做的就是,测量出波长的细微差别,然后从不同的角度测定它的折射度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

If that is what it takes to bring JAL back, he must convince employees that it is a necessary step for the company's future success.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

He feels like it sort of takes away his innocence as a filmmaker. Then also in the reading, he mentioned that he doesn't believe that you need any film knowledge to make a good movie. You just need an understanding of culture and of human history.

他感觉那样有如夺走了他作为一个电影制作者,所需要的纯真，在阅读材料中，他还提到,他认为要拍一部出色的电影,其实并不需要任何专业知识,只要对文化和人类历史有所了解就可以。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But he says he takes responsibility for cleaning it up.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19