The election will help shape Iraq's immediate future, either allowing sectarian and ethnic divides to deepen or giving more nationalist forces a boost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

They seem to be designed less to recruit philosophers and potential philosophers than to shape and educate citizens and future statesmen.

它们看来较不像,要吸引哲学家,和潜在哲学家,反倒像是要形塑及教育公民,和未来的政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you believe that homosexuals are effeminate, that gay men are effeminate, then this is going to shape how you see future gay men.

如果你相信同性恋者都是娘娘腔，男同性恋者都是娘娘腔，这会影响你对以后见到的同性恋者的看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In that case, the shape of Britain's future government will depend on coalitions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05