Who could forget the ghostly figure of Freddy Krueger: a disfigured face long razor-sharp knives flash from his fingers and his sinister way of turning the dreams of his victims into deadly nightmares.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"President Obama visited our area this week, and it was my hope that he would listen,really listen, to what the people are saying, I have been in Congress 16 months, but it does not take that long to figure out that Washington does more talking than listening."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Now, you could look at adult zebras all day long and you're never going to figure this out.

就算你整天盯着成年斑马看,也永远都找不出答案来

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We won't have to count quite that long, but even before we count, we've got to figure out what the meter of the music is, so let's start with that now.

我们不用打那么长的拍子,而且在我们打拍子之前,我们需要先弄清楚音乐的拍子是什么,我们从这个开始

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

That's not a scientific term but the same psychologists were interested in studying how quickly you can-- if at all how long does it take to figure out somebody's sexual orientation?

这不是一个科学术语,这两位心理学家也很有兴趣研究,你能多快…,如果对方真的是同性恋,就能猜出他们的性取向？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选