Mr.Obama said he does not want to see what he called - "petty politics" get in the way of reform.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

There's a lot of Christian churches where you can't get married in the outdoors, that's not an official way to get married.

有许多的基督教教堂,不允许在户外举行婚礼，在户外的婚礼并不代表正式结婚。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I could do it empirically, but I don't want to do that typically, it's just not a great way to get at it. And so in fact, what we want is exactly what the young lady said.

我可以凭借经验来做,但是我不想那么来,因为那并不是一种好方法，并且实际上,我们想要的和这位年轻女士说的确实相同。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

longer growing season." For third-generation Texas rice farmer Ray Stoesser, Cuba is a promising market and he does not want politics to get in the way.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

We'll get to oxidation number in the second half of this course, but it's not in any way the same idea as formal charge.

我们会在课程的后半部分讲到氧化数，但它和形式电荷完全不是同一个概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The people want to engage not just in a ritual or ceremonial way but actually in a substantive way where we get to talk about the various policies that affect our daily lives."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

The worst case here is, the things not in the list in which case I've got to go all the way through the list to get to the end.

目标数不在数组里,这意味着我必须遍历数组中所有的元素,好，说完了这些。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Once again, Frank Miller. "If the presidents of both countries are issuing instructions to their negotiators not to let small things get in the way, and if the presidents keep watching over what their negotiators do, the answer is clearly 'yes',".

VOA: standard.2009.04.08