Today,the expression bigwig is used to make fun of a person who feels important.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

And the fourth thing to notice is, I've used abstraction. I've said nothing about how I'm going to make square root.

第四件事情就是，我运用了抽象,我对怎么去求平方根没有提及。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And what that means simply is did people get the things they used to make their money fairly?

这很简单，就是说,人们是否公平地获得生产资料？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It is used to make clothing that stops bullets fired from a gun.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

So, this is, in fact, what's used to make novacaine in industry.

因此，这实际上是，在制药业中用来制造奴佛卡因的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The green is more about the ripeness, or lack of ripeness, of the grapes used to make the wine.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

But medium today is not what medium used to be, and because of that people really make a lot of errors in understanding how much a portion is.

但现在的中包薯条和过去的大小不同,因为这,人们理解什么是每日摄入量时,就犯了很多错误

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Experts say any device used to heat a home should be inspected to make sure it is working correctly.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

So, for example, Wellbutrin, it is very unlikely that it would have thionyl chloride in order to make it, and if thionyl chloride was used at some point in the synthesis, it was not to put that chlorine atom on, it was to put something else on.

比如，安非他酮，用亚硫酰氯来制造它,是不太可能的，而就算在合成过程中的某一阶段用到了亚硫酰氯，它也不会把氯原子加进去，而是把其它东西加进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Tucker used more than four hundred fifty thousand Legos to make his version which is more than five meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

This is what's used in industry to actually make novacaine.

这就是在制药业中真正用来制造奴佛卡因的流程。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It is also useful because the mold can be used over and over again to make exact copies of the ceramic form.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

But that is changing. There are many different kinds of materials and styles used to make furniture.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

Clay is important because it is used around the world to make containers of all kinds.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Turkey is also used instead of beef to make the traditional American hot dog.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

It is a plaster form that was used to make the bronze statue of Freedom that stands on the dome of the Capitol high above the city.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Uranium enrichment is the process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, but when extended it can also produce fissile material for an atomic bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28