This wall may work as well and last as long but it is not as pleasing to look at as the one built by hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Now, if you dug a hole here until there, and of course it may work until that happens.

现在,如果你在地上挖个洞,让这个物体下落时间足够长,那还说得通

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

All of us need some money, but some people really enjoy doing work that may not generate, if it's non-profit work like what we do.

我们都需要一些钱，但有些人,是真的乐于从事平凡的工作，比如说像我们做的这种不会发财的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It may have been influenced by his work as a newspaper reporter.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

That may or may not work -- I'm not optimistic -- but at least it's the same idea. We're changing payoffs.

这似乎无济于事,我对此也并不乐观,但至少我们得承认,它改变了收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"This year,however, there were some very promising clinical results that indicate that it may be starting to work the way that people always hoped that it would.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

If you tried to do one alone it would not work, so we decided to divide it up imperfectly and there may be some repetition between our two courses.

非要分开单独来学的话是不可行的,所以我们只能退而求其次,分割后的两门课可能会有重复的部分

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Unsurprisingly, you've got the ability to do decent work in this class and most of you have the ability to do good work, and some of you have, a fair chunk of you have, the ability to do excellent work, though it may take some work on your part to get to that point.

不奇怪，你已经有能力去做极好的作业,并且大多人有能力做好作业，一些人有，是大部分人有，有能力去做极好的作业，尽管这需要花费一些功夫才能做到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If it does work out, something extraordinary may happen.

但如果你真有了灵感，奇迹就会发生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选