The business council says it is also time for start work on setting a timeline for establishing an APEC free trade agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And if we have time today, we'll start in on the photo-electron spectroscopy, if not, that's where we'll start when we come back on Wednesday.

而且如果我们今天还有时间，我们将会开始光电子频谱，如果没有,我们将会在下周三回来时开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"A good place to start, and what I hope to spend a lot of time on in these discussions today, is how we can move forward on a jobs package."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

What I suggest we do is we do what we did last time and we start to draw a picture to figure out what my expected payoff is, depending on what I believe the goalie is going to do.

我建议用上次的方法,作图来表示在我对门将的策略,存在某种信念下,我的预期收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"The aftershocks will start off being fairly large and fairly frequent, and then sort of peter out as time goes on, although you will see aftershocks for weeks to months after the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

OK. We wanted to finish up that section, we're now going to start on a new section, and I want to try and do one and a half things in the remaining time. I'm going to introduce one topic that we're going to deal with fairly quickly, and then we tackle the second topic, it's going to start today, and we're going to carry on.

我们该结束这一段了，现在我们要开始新的课程，我在接下来的时间里要做1。5件事情,我首先会很快的对一个我们,要学习的课题,进行一个介绍，然后再进入第二个话题，今天我们只是开始这个话题，以后还要继续讲。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Most Americans wanted to hear president tell Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, and the rest of the Congress that it is time to start over on a common sense, bipartisan plan focused on lowering the cost of health care while improving quality."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

for exam 2, you still need to know and understand everything you learned in exam 1, but you can put off learning it completely until we get through, at least, next Wednesday before we start maybe spending time on these concepts outside of class.

为了掌握第二次考试的内容，你仍然需要知道和理解,在第一次考试前所学的全部知识，但是你可以先放一放，等到我们进行到，至少在下周三我们可能开始不在课堂上,讲这些内容之前。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Imagine I have a little lamp, a little goose- one of those little gooseneck lamps, I'd put it on the table here, I'd put the height about a f-- about a foot off the table. And if I was really good, - I could hit, or time it so that when I hurt- yeah, try again. When I turn this on switch on in the lamp, at exactly the same time, I'm going to hit a key on my computer and start it running.

想象下我有一个那种小雁颈台灯-,我把它放在桌子上，大概离桌子，有一英尺那么高吧,这样挺好的，我可以打开-,或者关闭这灯,并在这同时，我可以让我电脑,开始运行。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选