You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

You've got to spend the time to make sure that everything is well defined before you start trying to work out these problem More about the path. There are a couple ways you could go through that pass If I look at this smooth path here.

你要花时间确认,在你开始尝试解题前,切已经被很好地定义,关于路径还有些问题,你可以用两种不同的方式经过这条路径,看这条平滑的路径。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So most of the people who I spend a lot of time with are people who I know through my church,

所以，和我经常往来的许多人都是我在教堂认识的。

上西区的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."

VOA: special.2009.06.26

I want to spend a little time suggesting and developing the way in which that defense could be undertaken.

下面我想花点时间,阐述一下这一观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In nineteen fifty-two, Miss Carson was able to leave her job at the Fish and Wildlife Service and spend her time writing.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I want to spend some time on that until we talk about-- before we talk about development of the polio vaccine.

我想多花些时间讨论这个问题,在我们讨论,在我们讨论脊髓灰质炎疫苗的发展之前

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The challenge is for the work you are going to be doing at the class time we are doing to spend together.

这一挑战是针对,我们要一起在课上,完成的任务提出的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They wish he would spend more time on the economy. They don't like the health care bill."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Nonetheless, in the case of the Phaedo, I am going to spend more time actually saying, "Here's what I think the first main argument is.

对于斐多篇,我还会花更多的时间来说明诸如,我认为首要论证是这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Paul liked to spend as much time as he could at the theater where Charley Edwards and his group acted in their plays.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

If I'm going to be active in terms of managing my portfolio, should I spend my time and energy trying to beat the bond market?

如果我想主动地管理我的投资组合,是否应投入时间和精力,专注于战胜债券市场呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Five of them sustain moderate injuries, one is severely injured, you could spend all day caring for the one severely injured victim but in that time, the five would die.

其中五人伤势不算严重，另外一人受重伤，你可以花上一整天时间,来医治这一名受重伤的病人,但那另外五个病人就会死。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

She married an anarchist from the Department of the Ardeche, where we happened to live or are, at least were legally residents and spend much of our time down here; and she moved from one school to the next.

她嫁给了一个阿尔代什省的无政府主义者,正好我们当时住在那,或者说至少是合法居留然后在这边呆了很长时间,然后她从一个学校换到另一个学校

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"I don't think President Obama and the Democrats were expecting to have to spend so much time on health care because it is dragging on.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

You spend time looking for the article and when you find it, there are two different colors.

你花时间找你想要的东西，而当你找到了，有两种不同的颜色。

What do you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Now this is not the kind of stuff that computer scientists spend all their time doing, but it will germane.

现在，这并不是计算机科学家,要花费全部时间的地方，不过与此密切相关。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And it shortens the amount of time patients must spend in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Once the poleis are in place, they will spend a great deal of time fighting each other.

一旦城邦在某地建立,他们就会花上很长一段时间相互争斗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You can spend quiet time looking at the mountains off to the east.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

You spend a lot of time talking about the transition between alchemy and modern chemistry.

在高中化学你很多时间是花在,了解从炼金术到化学的改变上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"I don't really do a whole lot. I normally just spend time with family, go out to eat,hang out, wait for the ball to drop on TV."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

That must be the time you spend in preparation in studying.

那肯定是你们应该,花费来准备学习的时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The more time you spend exercising, the more health benefits you get.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

And again, we could spend a lot of class time saying, well riboflavin does this for the body and that for the body, but my guess is most of you wouldn't find that so interesting and for those of you who would, the information on it is available elsewhere as I said.

我们可以花很多课堂时间来说,核黄素对机体有这样那样的功用,不过我猜你会感到很无趣的,而对此感兴趣的同学,我说过你也可以从其他途径获得这些信息

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Like everyone wants that to be something, but really it's the time that you spend on it.

人人都想拥有什么，但其实是你（在这件事上）所花费的时间

钱重要吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人