"I think we also agree that it is important to take every opportunity to try and persuade the Iranians to reconsider what is actually in their own security interests,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

There are widespread controversies about it, and many of the courses you would take in law school are meant to try to get to the bottom of these thorny questions.

这个问题有很多争议，法学院的很多课都旨在,把这些棘手的问题弄得水落石出。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So things break if you try-- if the computer tries to take you too literally so it would not be correct generally to do something like that.

如果你把它分开-,那么电脑会逐字逐句地解析,你拆开写的代码,由此得到的结果一般都是错误的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选