As time passed, she learned how to sew clothes and make things.

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We need to know not only what are the primitives, but how do we make things meaningful in that language.

我们不仅需要知道什么是基本类型，还要知道我们在那种语言中,怎样使其变得有意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

How do we start to make a connection between what we hear and what things mean?

我们怎么能把我们听到的和它们的涵义,联系起来？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It has capacities to make things happen in the world that he doesn't know how to control.

在理查还手足无措时,语言有能力改变一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The question is not so much how we control what happens to us but what do we do when we were faced difficult circumstances, and how we can make spiritual meaning even when difficult things happen to us.

问题不是我们能够掌控多少,而是当我们面对困境,能做些什么，我们怎样体现灵性的意义,即便我们面临困境。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In other words, how is it that we feel the need to make things up?

换句话说，究竟是什么使我们想编故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I mean sometimes if you have things that are a mixture of foods, like you go out for Chinese food or you have a casserole somewhere, or you have some dish of vegetables mixed together, how do you make sense of that when it comes to entering these things into a record.

我是说,有时候有一堆食物在你面前,如出去吃中餐,或你面前有一份大杂烩,又或者是很多蔬菜混合在一块,在输入饮食记录的时候,怎样才能让你输入的东西有意义呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There is no reference, in any of the tablets-- I don't know how much we can make of that because the tablets limit themselves to such limited kinds of things that maybe it doesn't prove anything, but in this case, I think it does.

在所有陶土碎片的文字中都没有注释,我不知道我们能够理解多少,况且陶土碎片可供记录的空间有限,也许它们不能证明任何东西,但在这里,我想至少可以证明一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选