The Census Bureau says the ten-question form this year is one of the shortest ever and should take no more than ten minutes.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name, which is no part of thee, take all myself."

罗密欧，抛弃了你的名字吧，我愿意，把我整个的心灵，赔偿你这一个身外的空名“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But there is no way they are ever going to get in power. They wouldn't ever take over.

但是他们绝不可能掌握政权。他们绝无可能接管政权。

英国的极右政党 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Confederate leaders no longer could find soldiers to take the places of those who left.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

So if I take away the quotation marks, all I have is the word with no indication that it's a concept.

所以如果我拿掉引号，剩下的就只是这个词而不指示一个概念了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Foreign students normally cannot take a job that has no connection to their school.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The equilibrium state is the one, and it's just one, in which there are no spontaneous changes that can take place to any other state.

平衡态是一个，而且仅仅是一个态，这个态不会发生自发变化,变成其他的态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory...

VOA: special.2011.06.02

Take the yolks and mix them in with the sugar and water No. Sugar and flour I guess is probably what I want, sugar and water is not going to do anything interesting for me here mix them into something else.

将蛋黄取出,把他们和上糖和水,不，我猜糖和面粉才可能是我想要的，糖和水没法儿为我,变出有趣的东西来,把他们混合成别的什么东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Grant told his advisers he would take no part in the election campaign.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"No." Amelia told her, "you had better take it now."

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Another side effect if you take too much lithium is death, so that's no good to have in sodas either, and it might not have been as big a deal back in the 1920's, but you can imagine with supersizing today, this might be a bigger problem.

另一个副作用是因为摄入锂过量而死，这更说明在汽水里放这种东西是不好的，这在二十世纪二十年代可能没什么大问题，但你可以想象在如今这个什么都超标的时代，这也许会出更大的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So take heart. Have no fear about learning new expressions.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

"And that no one can take from them without their consent."

即未经他们本人的同意，任何人无权夺去“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Sid sneered. 'But to make sure nobody'll let you out, I'll just take this key along.'" "When Nancy could no longer hear the tramp of his heavy boots she was sure Sid had left the house.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .

我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Dr.Pappas with the NGO Interaction says he sees no reason why African countries should take drastic preventive action at this stage.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather, There is a house that is no more a house... And that is where he's going to take us in the poem.

回到那时对我们来说太沉重了，那个时代是由细节的遗失组成的,烧毁的，不见得，和被破坏的,像这样的天气，墓地里的大理石雕像，这是一个不再是房子的房子。,这就是诗里他要带我们去的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The idea of a no-frills, environmentally-aware grave may,however, take time to catch on in Australia, where there is still a deep respect for tradition.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This is trying to bring security to a hamlet - we pull out, the hamlet no longer has security, and the Taliban take over.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

So in that sense, they should be the first to take action, no question.

所以从这一点来说，毫无疑问他们应该首先采取行动。

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

While NATO officials gave no specific timeline for the drawdown, Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said it could take place by next January.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

No, the right thing to do is to take care of yourself and the hell with the polis.

不,正确的做法是关心你自己,不用理会什么城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example,in most sub-Saharan African countries, the U.N.Children's Fund says more than half the deliveries take place at home, with no skilled birth attendant present.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

But the point is Reagan supported that effort and that made all the difference, and it took a lot of courage Reagan was going to take the recession in 1982 He was willing to support Volker no matter what to get the inflation down ... Alright, so... Interest rates in the summer of 1980 were quite high Yes, they were.

但是，里根力挺了这次货币改革,这才是重点，下这样的决心不容易,里根本打算在1982年来狠抓经济衰退2,他很信任沃尔克,为了降低通胀率，可以不惜一切代价,好吧，那么。,1980年夏天，银行利率已经相当高了,没错，确实如此。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

You can sleep on it.If you still feel like going in the morning, - I'll take you to the airport.- No. I want to drive.

VOA: standard.other

No, I always take a bus.

不，我总是坐公交车上班。

Have you 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bag away shaking with terror because no one saw them but me.

我无时无刻不乞求我的父母,指着那些袋子，让他们带走,我怕的发抖,由于除了我再也没人能看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选