If it can hold water, it is strong.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still ; Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill: So prythee go with me.

你听见我说话，却默不作声,坏事开始发生;,恶势力让他们更加壮大：,所以，跟我一起走吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Death waited ever hungry. Death had the hungriest stomach of all. Koskoosh listened to other sounds he would hear no more: the men tying strong leather rope around the sleds to hold their belongings;

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Some of us are supermen, and it is quite wrong and wicked for us to be treated as though we were ordinary fellows, and therefore do not tie us down with these ridiculous codes of ethics, and morals, and other things which are simply the weapons by which the weak hold down the strong."

有些甚至是超人,把我们都作为普通人,来对待是错的,是不道德的,所以别用荒唐的,道德伦理来束缚我们,或用武器这样粗陋的东西来约束我们,那是弱者用来压制强者的工具"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"We are coming, we are coming to help. Stay strong,hold on.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04