I know where the young people come together, we have the possibility of doing whatever it takes to make the world a better place."

VOA: special.2009.07.01

It literally halves the amount of time it takes to solve that problem but we can actually do better.

它能把解决问题时间的缩短一半,但其实我们能做的更好。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I really feel like I have what it takes to be an actor.

我真的觉得我有做演员的资质。

I'm ready to 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The president has called for focusing in on what it really takes to be successful in work and in college, and he has called on America's educational institutions, primary and secondary educational institutions, to do whatever it takes to get our kids college ready.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

So in the case of 12 32, that is our highest kinetic energy, it's the smallest amount of energy it takes to pop an electron out of that orbital.

因此，1232是我们能够得到的,最高的动能，它是从这个轨道中,打出一个电子需要消耗的最低能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Do not make any mistake, we will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

But now that we're here,we're in a position perhaps to raise the question, should we be asking what it takes to survive?

现在我们必须想要提出的问题应该是，要怎样才能生存？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"This alliance will stand united and we will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The other obvious one to do would be worst case. Again, over all possible inputs to this function, what's the most number of steps it takes to do the computation?

很明显另一种就是针对最坏的情况了,也就是在所有可能的输入,里面选出用的,步骤最多的那个输入？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

After almost 20 years in the casting business, Wolfe says he knows what it takes to become a star.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

So in other words, every time I merge the point that I kept emphasizing verbally there and that I'm only touching each number once, means that we have to account for the amount of time it takes to merge N which is going to be just N. Now, this is again one of these cyclical answers.

换言之，之前在做合并时,我不停地强调,对每个数字我只碰了一次，这就是说,我们要记录合并所花的时间量,也就是这里的,这又是一种循环性的答案。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Prime Minister George Papandreou has said he will do whatever it takes to save the economy, no matter how painful.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

And that the extra work it takes to lie was beyond him.

撒谎所需要的额外行为超出了他的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Bandic claims his experience as Zagreb mayor in the past 10 years shows that he knows what it takes to be president.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

It takes ordinarily it takes for 5 years in the peace time conditions to set up any kind of army.

在和平时期，一般要5年时间才能建立一个军队。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

First polls showed that most voters believe Grybauskaite has what it takes to lead the country out of its most serious economic crisis in years.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

It takes up his lifelong quest to reconcile extremities, and to achieve some kind of unity of being.

他一生都在极端之间妥协，为达到某种存在的结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

If that is what it takes to bring JAL back, he must convince employees that it is a necessary step for the company's future success.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

If it takes you 1 / 60 of a second to go around once, then you do it 60 times a second.

如果转一圈要 1 / 60 秒,那么一秒就转了60圈

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Colonel George W.Smith, commanding officer of Quantico's Basic Training School, says fitness and skills are only part of what it takes to be a Marine officer.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

And then he just takes that narrow column of light and he admits it to a prism. And what the prism does is takes a tiny, tiny difference in wavelength and refracts it through a different angle.

他只取了那个窄光柱,然后把它对准一个棱镜，棱镜所做的就是,测量出波长的细微差别,然后从不同的角度测定它的折射度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

President Barack Obama described the incident as a "systemic failure" of America's security apparatus, and U.S.officials have pledged to do what it takes to prevent a recurrence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

All right, you're saying it takes education to appreciate higher true things.

好，你说人们需要接受教育,来欣赏更高级的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Corn-based ethanol produces only slightly more energy than it takes to produce it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

On the other side of town, scientists are working on a genetic test they hope will cut the time it takes to diagnose MDR-TB from 70 days to two days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

The trouble is, you just don't know when that explosion took place, and since there are several periods in this general area that we're talking about now, in which something big happened, some great change takes place, it turns out different people want to have their explosion at different times.

问题是,你不了解火山爆发的,确切时间以及这种爆发,在这个区域又延续了很多个时期,这些时期发生了许多重大事件和重大变化,结果就是不同人对,火山爆发的时间推测各不相同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But for now,he said, there is work to be done. "Every American affected by this spill should know this: Your government will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to stop this crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

Um, even like I've seen pictures of just some really crazy graffiti that's like, you know, it takes actual skill to do.

像是我甚至看到过一些真正疯狂的涂鸦作品，干那个还真需要技术。

街头艺术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And yeah, it takes a long time to get good at it. A lot of fitness, too. A lot of working out.

要想划得熟练需要时间。体能也要好。再加上大量的锻炼。

MIT赛艇选手 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人