You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and I'm making sure that the programme is running to the time it's meant to run by,

我要保证项目要在预定的时间内开展，

制作电视节目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

workers are making digital copies. To learn more about Willis Conover, listen at this time Sunday for the program PEOPLE IN AMERICA.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

This is often the way relationships start "We like each other, I'm physically attracted to each other, I-- to you, I enjoy spending time with you but I'm not making any long-term commitments.

爱情经常以这种形式开场,我们喜欢对方，享受肌肤之亲-,享受一起度过的时光,但不做长远的承诺。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At the same time Fred Allen and Jack Benny were making America laugh, so was Bob Hope.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

By the 1830s,1840s, there were over 100 men in Charleston, South Carolina alone, making their livings full-time as slave traders.

到了十九世纪三四十年代,仅仅在南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿地区,就有超过一百个,专职从事奴隶贸易的奴隶交易商

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I want her to stop criticizing me and making too many demands on my time.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

There were other individuals that were making this observation at that time.

同一时期也有人做过类似的观察

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They spend time in tanning beds in hopes to making their skin darker.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Even though you'll see a whole bunch of constructs today and even throughout the course, you will find that there's often multiple ways to implement something, and it will be up to us to guide you toward better design and making in giving two different options the better choice as time passes.

即使今天乃至整个课程中,你们将了解到很多的结构，你将发现,这里有很多的方法来处理一些事情，这将引导你们做更好的设计,随着时间的推移，从两个不同的选择中,选择一个更好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This time around, the "Nightmare" director is Sam Bayer, a star in the music video world making his feature film debut.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

So before we leave it, I've been making a point in this class of coming back to reality from time to time, so this is a very simple model of the soccer game in reality.

在我们结束讨论之前,我来强调一下,我们应该回到现实中,这是一个很简单的足球模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And,these are occurring at a time when the global economic crisis is making it more difficult to maintain good health, especially in the developing world.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

So by the time it came, more like, by the time I came to meet this random project that was pretty well change where it's making that, you know In terms of managing this whole process, nothing.

因此，当创造Facebook的念头产生的时候,我已经准备充分并且能够实现它了，但我从未想过关于规划整个过程的事。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

But observers say India and China remain wary of accepting legally binding emission cuts at a time when they are making their presence felt on the global economic scene.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

The important concept is that, while every cell in your body has the capability of making all the proteins that are needed throughout your body, not every cell is doing that at any given time.

这里面有一个重要的概念,就是尽管你身体里的细胞都,有能力制造出,全身上下所需的所有蛋白质,但不是所有细胞每时每刻都在这么做

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Reid told reporters he had been making overtures to Specter to join the Democratic Party for some time, even before the senator from Pennsylvania faced a difficult reelection contest.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama referred to the Gulf oil spill in making the case that it is time, as he put it, to "aggressively accelerate the nation's transition to a clean energy economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14