I once landed on my face. I soon learned that it took much less effort for me to move on Mars than it did on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

He said, "I had a lot of trouble, I took it to department stores and I said, why don't you sell this?

他说，当时我遇到了很多麻烦，我把它拿到百货公司，我说，你们为何不销售这个呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But secretly hidden, I think it's kind of been set up just so that I can meet her, and we met and it took a while.

但说句老实话，我觉得我们是被刻意安排好见面的，然后我们的确见到了对方，但真正产生感情仍花了一段时间。

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I judged it would have took too long to make so many."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Actually, it was an earlier edition, when I first assigned this book in the year 2000, I took it with me on vacation.

我看的是早一些的版本,2000年我第一次将其指定为教材,我带着这本书去旅行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The man took the box again, and took another long look, and gave it back to Smiley,and says, "Well,I don't see anything about that frog that is any better than any other frog."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I didn't really hear her answer, but she put it on willingly enough, so I took that as a yes."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Same story for sophomore, same story for junior year, I finally took it senior year because they wouldn't get another chance even though it still doesn't fit in the workload ha ha.

大二，大三都是如此，最后我到大四才来上这门课,因为即使学业再忙,再不选就没有机会了，哈哈。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"I mean it took off like a rocket." Under Fiedler,the Pops truly became a national orchestra, touring the country and appearing on television.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"And Quentin,with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer took this ship across and brought it in with flying colors, and that's why I'm here."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

And what if I took a unit charge and I multiplied it times unit voltage, one volt?

如果我取个元负荷,让它乘上个电压单位，一伏特？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They fully supported it. I don't think they took it that seriously.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

If it took you a while to digest it, I ask you to think harder.

如果你还要看一会儿才能领会,你就得好好努力了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"And,I am just surprised that it took so long quite frankly."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.

也许他们过于夸张了，而且我认为,某种程度上他们确实是，但具有启迪意义的是,这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者,都把他看作自由的传道者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But I was eight years old and I was terrified. I think it took me like two months to go off it with the full speed and actually go anywhere,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

But what if instead of taking the fluid from a cow, I inoculated--he inoculated me, let's say, and waited until I had the lesion at the right stage, then took some of my fluid and gave it to Brian and Nate and Mirtalla and spread it through the community around me.

但假如不从奶牛那儿取得脓液,假设说是从他那里接种,等到病变程度合适,然后把我的脓液给,布莱恩和纳特还有米特拉,并在我身边的人们之间传播

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"As I've said from the day I took office, it's going to take months, even years, to dig our way out - and it's going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

And then when I took my Russian class last year, I really liked it

而且我去年上俄语课时，我非常喜欢，

选择国际学的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Had it not been for the steps that we took with respect to GM and Chrysler, the situation in Michigan, I think it is fair to say, would be far worse."

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

And I like it. I took an introductory Accounting course in the undergrad

而且我喜欢会计学。本科的时候我上了一门入门会计课程，

为什么是会计学呢？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I was initially surprised by the news, because I usually expect older people, with longer experience in the peace process, but I took President Obama's winning of the prize as a promise for the future, as much as it is for his approach in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

I took that concept and eventually in 2000 realized that I had this beautiful picture of the city but it was all verticals.

我接受了这个概念,最终在2000年我意识到,我虽然勾画出了这个城市的美丽图景,但它都是垂直的线。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

I had my suspicions about the milkshake, and so I took a sample and I rushed it down to the lab.

我怀疑奶昔有问题，于是我取了一份样品，跑到实验室化验。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And,when I once took the train over to Poitiers,it took three hours, because if you go across the lines it's not good.

由此我坐火车去普瓦捷,会花三个小时,因为穿过省界的话是很不合适的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I mean, it took me like a couple of weeks there, even less, putting together the site.

建立这个网站只耗费了几周的时间，甚至更少。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

I took the second payoff from that matrix and made it the second payoff in this matrix.

那个矩阵里面的第二个收益就是,这次博弈的矩阵里第二个收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选