President Barack Obama is calling on private companies, not the national space agency, to carry astronauts into orbit.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Then they deal with the households by having a local office and telling people what their balance is and calling them up if they're not paying and that sort of thing.

他们还会建立地方办公室,以便处理后续事宜,告知人们,他们的贷款余额,如果没有按时还款,就给他们打电话,以及类似的事情

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Among the things Socrates says he cares deeply about is his calling, as he puts it, to do nothing but persuade you both younger and older not to care for your bodies and money but how your soul will be in the best possible condition.

苏格拉底的言论中,最让他关心的是他的呼唤，他一心只想说服你们,无论老幼都不要在乎,肉身及金钱,而要关注你的灵魂,是否处于最佳状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The government is calling this a "goal" not a quota, which runs counter to the French system.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

And just as with variables, you should use some common sense, some style here, and the function's name should X Y communicate what it does, calling it X or Y or Z is generally not all that helpful.

就像变量，你使用一些常识，一些类型，和函数名需要,传达它所做的事情，把它叫做,或者Z通常是没有什么用处的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Eide,speaking to reporters, is calling for patience to allow the process to be completed, saying he is not surprised by the slow pace of the vote count.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24