He decided it was a sign that he needed to make his dream of being a building designer a reality.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

say, "Couldn't really make it that ten.

我实在想不出十个优点来。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

to make sure that it's going to be a comfortable pair of shoes that last me a long time.

来保证这双鞋很舒服而且可以穿很久。

不需要名牌 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was also the tallest. And it was the largest power producer that used water power to make electricity.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

OK, important -- if you are part of this group here think about it and make sure you understand that.

好的，这很重要，如果刚才你选了可逆过程,请好好想想并且保证已经理解了这个问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

State lawmakers in California are considering a bill that would make it illegal for people to have,sell or distribute shark fins.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

It doesn't really make it any better that you're also going to give amnesia and drive insane somebody else.

这完全不会让我觉得好些,即便你说你要给别人洗脑，把她逼疯。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But some management experts warn that limiting pay could make it harder for taxpayers to get their money back.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

So, for starters we'll keep that as our zero energy, we're going to change it soon to make something that makes more sense in terms of bonding, but we'll keep that as zero for now.

因此，首先我们将会保持零点能的这个定义，但很快我们就会对它进行修改,使它在讨论成键时更合理，但是目前我们还是暂时采用这种定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

We all have our version of trying to wrestle with this: if God knows what you're going to do tomorrow, to what extent does it make sense to say that what you do tomorrow you do freely?

我们都有自己试图解决这个问题的方式：,如果上帝压根儿就知道我们明天要做什么，那么，说着明天会自由的从事自己想做的事情,究竟又有什么意义呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Cleveland warned that it would be far better to make safe,careful, and intelligent changes in the tariff laws now.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

These, they are all really smart people, which is why we brought them and we want to leverage the fact that they have a lot of really good ideas and can do a lot of the stuff themselves, but how you make sure that it's conforming to standards, you know.

他们都是聪明人，我们雇佣他们,是看重他们有着绝佳的点子,并且拥有独立开发的能力，但你需要确保,这些点子以及产品都符合标准。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It would be the first of seven trips that she would make to the area in the next forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

They make it like that, but instead of water or whatever, they put Coca-Cola into it?

他们像往常一样和面团,只不过用可口可乐取代了水

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

These suggest that before employees make a decision, they should "consider how it would look in a news story."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

What I mean by that is, pick a simple set of values, and let's walk through it to see what happens. And this is useful because it's going to allow me to A make sure that I've got something that's going to terminate, it's going to let me make sure that in fact I'm doing the right kinds of updates.

原因你们知道的，好，模拟代码,我的意思就是,选出一系列的值来,然后模拟下代码的执行来看看结果,这很有用因为这让我确保我的程序在某个地方,可以终止，还会让我确保实际上我。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That will make it easier for students to get financial aid, and to have their education recognized by employers and other schools.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

People do need money and they go into business to make money; so let's make it clear, that's what the company is going to do.

人们需要钱,于是通过投资赚钱,明确的说这就是公司的任务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Disability will always be here, unfortunately. So it behooves all of us to make it a world that everybody can live in."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The poet Wallace Stevens puts it beautifully when he says that poetry should make the visible a little hard to see; in other words it should be a defamiliarizing of that which has become too familiar.

诗人华莱士，史蒂文斯在解释这点时说得很漂亮,他说，诗应给能见之物涂上一点朦胧的色彩，换句话说,诗应将熟悉的事物陌生化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That was the last day the government said it had enough money to make all of its payments.

VOA: special.2011.08.05

What kind of a friendship are these bonds of affection that he says hold the city ? together and that make it a regime?

这些感情关系属于何种友情,能像他所言,能将整座城市团结起来并形塑出一个政体？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A geodesic dome that size would make it possible to have complete control over the environment inside it.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

And the answer is that-- yes it won't make a difference to our wellbeing but it also doesn't mean that we cannot increase our level of wellbeing.

答案是-,是的，它不会改变我们的幸福水平,但并不意味着,我们不能提升自己的幸福水平。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So the Bend went. And I was very happy that I had helped to make it go."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

You certainly could make the case that it is not... their wealth is not appropriate to the goodness in their hearts, but that's not really the morally relevant issue.

你当然可以举出例子来。,说他们的财富与他们的良善不相当，但这与道义无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For example,Mister Venter is working to design cells that can make it easier to capture carbon dioxide.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

So, it's not really a developmental ... it's not really a developmental delay in the way that it might make sense to think about certain forms of retardation.

孤独症并非发展延迟,不应当把它理解为,某种形式的发育迟缓

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Therefore, you will produce enough profit to make it possible, so that these small farms, you should imagine as typically having one or two slaves playing a part in this experience.

因此,需要创造足够的利润,才能使每个只有,一两个奴隶的小农场,能够在那段时间得以维系下去

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选