But if the plan succeeds, it could serve as a model for America's biggest carmaker,General Motors.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Kinases can, in many cases, serve as a mechanism for switching a protein on or switching a protein off.

激酶能够,在很多情况下,能够激活一种蛋白或者关闭一种蛋白

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In the book,he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And they serve as nurseries for shrimp and other saltwater organisms.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

How could such figures possibly serve ? as good role models for citizens of a just city?

这类的角色能做好模范,供正义之城的公民学习吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Pakistani government has repeatedly said such attacks kill mostly civilians and only serve as a recruitment tool for Islamic militants.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Well, it turns out that we could not identify, at least at that point, a cell culture that would serve as a host for vaccinia.

然而我们还不能断定,至少这个时候无法断定,这些被感染的细胞就是牛痘病毒的宿主

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The space station complex will serve as observatory, laboratory and workshop for astronauts and cosmonauts who live and work there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Well, if you knew a cell that could serve as a host for a virus, you could use this process of cell culture to make large quantities of virus,right?

如果你知道细胞可以变成病毒的宿主,可以用培养细胞的过程,制造大量病毒,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Livestock help improve human nutrition, provide income and serve as a safety net for many poor farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Can it serve as a model for justice in the city?

它是否可以作为城市中正义的模范？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Commander Harbour tells VOA News this latest incident - so far away from Somalia - should serve as a wake-up call for the international community.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

In one recent study - among the 1,000 he's published - Ayala establishes that gorillas and chimps may serve as reservoirs for the parasites that cause human malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The Sunfull Movement's founder Min Byoung-chul says South Korea, with its years of experience in dealing with these social problems, can serve as a model for other nations.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Marituu says this should serve as a caution signal for all historians.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"Pakistan is a nation which could either serve as a force for stability and progress in a volatile region, or it could become the epicenter for radicalism and violence on a cataclysmic scale,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

"This will serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready, to improve itself, to look at the organization, to look at the quality of the facilities,and therefore I hope this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22