"Maybe it would be nice if he (Obama) sees that he is working for the people, and he sees that the people are so drastically against a lot of his policies that maybe he might re-think it and say, 'Let's see what we can all work out together."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

And I end up going back and doing unit testing anyway, to try and figure out why it doesn't work. So over the years, I've just convinced myself I might as well start where I'm going to end up.

第一次从来不会正常运行,因此无论如何我还要回头去做单元测试,找找哪儿出错了，因此经过这么多年，我已经说服自己既然一定要做单元测试,那么还是一开始就做最好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It might be like a single, a single mother, you know. She might not get home from work until like 6.

也有可能是个单亲母亲。她下班到家可能要6点之后了。

哈莱姆的变迁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

We need work to come in, we might as well get it from here.

我们需要功来作为输入，而从这里可以得到这个功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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It might suggest that you could convert all the work to heat.

它暗示我们可以把所有的功转化为热,但是热力学第二定律说。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选