"You know,I never came into these Olympic Games trying to break records or trying to tie any medal count.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And my arguement is that in our history and today living up to our values or trying to live up to our values is as much a part of our power as a big army.

我要说明的是，无论在历史上还是今天,坚持这些价值观,或者试着坚持,给我们所带来的巨大力量，绝不亚于一只庞大的军队。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Or, if something goes wrong, trying to think of, you know, what can be learned out of it.

或者是，什么东西出错了，我就试着，想一想可以从中学到些什么。

幸福的定义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Not having anything that they're striving for." "Not going back to the moon or trying to go to Mars, or anything else."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Or are you going to manage each individual asset class actively, trying to beat the market and generate risk-adjusted excess returns?

还是积极管理每项资产,力求获得市场水平以上的回报率,以及风险调整后的超额收益

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"What do they fear? Someone bombing the plane or trying to down the plane in some other way?

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

When you've been typing in words to the keyboard like your name or any word that you're trying to provide to the user, a string really looks like this.

当你们通过键盘键入单词，比如你的名字,或者你想提供给用户的任何单词，一个字符串实际上看起来就是这样。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

are very similar genetically. "And that's a real problem when you're trying to overcome new insect or disease threats or pressures, or trying to breed a plant that's more water efficient, or even finding genetic variation for water production."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Because as a young, four or five-year-old company, if we're trying to attract somebody from a company that's been around since before I was born, that is in the computer industry, that's pretty hard.

因为作为一个只有四五岁的年轻公司，如果我们想要吸引大家的注意,尤其是在公司创立之前，这在电脑行业是很难的。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Banner says coaches can tell if a player is only trying to improve his statistics or wants to help his team win.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

But then also a little bit about your history, where you come from, some of your experiences which have helped you or informed your opinions on this very difficult issue that the entire world really is spending a lot of time trying to work on.

然后再谈谈你们各自的经历，你们从何而来，谈一些你们自己的经历,一些帮助过你们，或形成了你们,就这个复杂问题的观点,这个全世界都在投入大量时间试图解决的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But around the world,he says, there is a subculture of people who spend a great deal of time trying to set or break records.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

We implicitly demand of expository texts," he goes on to say -and he may be alluding to Gadamer here because after all Gadamer is talking primarily about expository text, works of philosophy, works of social thought, which of course aren't trying to surprise or trick us.

我们暗中希望能得到解释的文本“，他接着说下去,而且他可能在这里提到葛达玛,因为毕竟葛达玛主要研究解释性作品，哲学作品，社会思想作品，这些当然不会试图去令我们惊讶或者是误导我们。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Or if you are trying to rest your voice but it keeps getting worse.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

I remember walking around the square during mu lunch hour, walking faster and faster trying to get around, four or five different classes of kids, all of whom were verbally abusive to me, and feeling there was no place that I belong there was no place that I felt connected to other kids.

我记得我在广场周围走着,那会儿正是午餐时间，我越走越快,想翘过接下来的四五个不同的班级,班上的孩子都对我恶言相向过，我觉得自己无处可去,我找不到自己和其他孩子相联系的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Or,a company that makes soap is trying to sell its product on television.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

So this is a piece by Strauss where he's trying to resurrect the content, or mirror the content, of a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and it's about the unleashing of human capacity as it comes forth from the primordial earth here.

通过这个片段,施特劳斯正试着,重新诠释或者再现弗里德里希·尼采,的哲学著作查拉图斯特拉如是说的内容,这部作品是关于人类能力的释放,时间设定在人类从原始的世界出现之后

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

They take those descriptions and the scientist that is known and they try to design new things, and so if you look at a dictionary it has words like this, that you're designing things or another way to say that is that you're trying to apply science, you're looking at applications.

他们利用已知的,科学原理和描述,来设计新东西,因此,如果你查字典时看到这样的词条,设计产品或者换句话说,试图应用科学原理,那么你看的这个词就是应用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The others have migrated back to their villages to work on the farms, or are trying to find work in small units outside Surat.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But an organization called Nefesh to Nefesh or Soul to Soul is trying to change that.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

So the excess and the longing are there, each trying to drive or satisfy the other.

这里的过多的重复和那盼望，都是在试着牵动和满足彼此。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We also give to local groups, but we only take scholarship applications from local Appalachian region children or groups that are trying to promote traditional music."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The other thing that we looked at, which I want to stress again and I'll stress it as many times as I can fit it into lecture, because this is something that confuses students when they're trying to identify, for example, different nodes or areas of no probability.

另外一个我们要考虑的事情，我想再强调一次,而且我以后会在课上强调很多次，因为它很容易让人混淆,这就是当你们在确认，节点或者零概率点时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The next stop is for epidemiologists and physicians who are trying to develop vaccines or drugs to take advantage of this knowledge in doing their work."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

When, rather than trying to fight or defeat our nature, we accept it.

不是想办法战斗打败我们的本性，我们接受它。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Radia says the coalition is not trying to stop law enforcement from getting information to capture criminals or terrorists, but to give the average person the right to privacy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

So no harm is done, once we've clarified the question that we're trying to ask, if we summarize that question in a bit of a jargon or slogan.

其实没什么的,一但我们证实了我们,试图想要解决的问题,如果把这个问题用术语或行话简化

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The libertarian says nobody else is harmed,nobody else's rights are violated, so the state should get out of the business entirely of trying to promote virtue or to enact morals legislation.

自由主义者认为,其他人没有因此受到伤害，也没被侵权，所以政府不应该插手此事,不该试图立法弘扬道德。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选