"I am sorry, but I won't be able to offer you any tea after all," she said.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Here is the deal: What I am going to do is ask you-- this is all voluntary, you don't have to do it-- here's the deal.

交易是这样的，我要做的是要求你们-,纯属自愿，可以不做，交易是这样的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Really there's no work to be done if I am handed all in sorted order so, you know, There's no work to be done if I'm handed all of the arrays in sorted order so, you know, if I demand that you give me this assumption that the cups are already sorted and then I'll sort them for you, I mean, this is kind of a cyclical argument.

如果杯子是有序排列的,那就没必要再对它进行排序了，同样如果给出的序列本身就是有序的,那也不必再做什么，如果给出这样的假设：,杯子已经有序，但仍需要对其进行排序，这像是个循环的论点。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"I am not a lobbyist with all kinds of money to stuff in your pocket, so that you can cheat the citizens of this country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

And similar is a leader, sometimes you don' t have all the information that you want, you've gotta be willing to say " i am gonna go with the best information that i have" i am gonna make the best decision that i can and if we were wrong, we admit it, and we fix it, but we won't just stand there.

同样，作为一名领导者，有时你无法取得,所有的相关信息，你要愿意主动地说,“我将最大可能地,利用手上的资料来工作”,“我要做出自己能够做出的最好的决定”,如果我们犯了错，就虚心承认而且设法改正，但我们不会袖手旁观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

"To tell you the truth,I had sung . all the songs I knew, and I am going ' What am I going to do now,'" "And in my mind I'm going 'you know, this is the freedom that my generation is looking for,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.15