This was it. What could be an impossible effort in the history of spaceflight was ready to lift off on its final chance for success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Here, this guy looks like kind of an overweight NFL player who hasn't really gotten ready for the drill.

这个家伙像是一位橄榄球运动员,身体超重并且没有充分训练

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now,everything was ready for an astronaut to make an orbital flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

And a dealer--what a dealer does is it maintains an inventory of, in this case, treasury bills and then it stands ready to buy and sell.

中间商所做的是,囤积各类国库券,随时准备交易

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So the first thing I tell an actor to do is learn your craft and be ready when you get the opportunity."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

if we move up one of our electrons into an empty p orbital, what were going to see is now we have three unpaired electrons that are ready for bonding.

教授：嗯，如果我们把其中,一个电子填入p轨道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Separately,Tauscher cautiously welcomed an announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Tehran is ready to send its enriched uranium overseas in exchange for nuclear fuel.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

The event was attended not only by doctors,nurses, and delegates from international aid groups, but also by people from outside the health sector planners,architects and engineers who talked about ways of building hospitals in such a way that they would be ready for an emergency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14