Kevin Volpp,director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives, says these programs make it easier to take that first step to change.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Instead of this reversible isothermal step, Let's make it an irreversible isothermal step.

不是可逆等温过程，而是不可逆等温过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So I always felt free, in fact, I felt encouraged when I had a disagreement to step forward and make my case.

所以我总觉得很自由，事实上，我觉得经常被鼓励提出不同意见,站出来，陈述自己的观点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Meanwhile,the House Financial Services Committee took a step to make it easier for U.S.state governments and individual investors to divest from Iran, removing the threat of lawsuits for those doing so.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

I make the problem ten times bigger, it takes one more step to do it.

而在线性复杂度的算法里，我把规模扩大十倍。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Political analysts say if that happens, the two present candidates for the prime minister's post are likely to step down and make way for others who might be able to build a consensus.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

We're checking the end test and incrementing, actually I was going to, I commented that out for a reason you'll see in a second, but I, normally I would keep this on, which would let me, at each step, see what it's doing. If I ran this, it would print out each step. Which is helping me make sure that it's incrementing the right way.

对不对？进行终结测试然后递增，实际上我要，因为某些你们,马上要明白的原因我把这里注释了，但是我通常会一直这么做，这样能让我看到每一步都做了什么，如果我运行这个程序，它会在每一步都,进行显示，这能帮助我让我确信程序是,在以正确的方式递增。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"We're going to go in and put a cap on it and we'll be able to produce the fluids [the oil and the next step is to make sure that we minimize the oil and pollution going into the Gulf."

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

In this occasion,he said, we certainly took a step forward to make all of us feel we belong to the same country and we can be proud of our generosity and the assistance we have provided to all these people.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

"People can do things in their own lives, with their children, they can do work in their communities to improve it and once you take those steps, the next logical step is to make sure that your government officials are doing the right thing."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25