Lincoln did not have much time to prepare his speech.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

You might believe for instance, that women should not prepare food when menstruating because it would contaminate the food.

例如，你可能会认为，女人来月经时不应该做饭,因为这样会亵渎了食物。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Like, you have to write essays and like, if you prepare them well, it's not like a big...

就像，你要写论文，如果你好好准备，不会……

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But if people enjoy fine dining, if people enjoy entertaining, they're always looking for ways to enjoy their friends and family and impress them and have wonderful food, but not everyone has the time these days to prepare things themselves.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So from that point of view it's probably good, but from the point of view of wanting to eat more foods that you prepare yourself and not eat process, and package, and things like that it may not be so good.

就这一点看来还是很不错的,而对于想多吃一些自己做的食物,而不吃加工好的精包装食品那类食物的人,评估就没这么容易了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Radovan Karadzic says , he will not attend the opening day of his trial because he needs more time to prepare his defense.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But the former Bosnian-Serb leader says he will not attend the official start of his trial because he had "not enough time to prepare his defense."

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

But a new study finds that many schools across the United States are not doing enough to motivate or prepare students to pursue bioscience studies in college.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25