"I think that the Americans want to improve their relations with Syria to weaken Iran and to further isolate it in the region, so I don't think the Americans need Syria as a mediator with Iran, because that would improve relations between Tehran and Damascus,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

And it still didn't improve my impression of him but I like his stuff.

这并没有改善我对他的印象，但是我喜欢他的作品。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We aren't professionals, so every year there are things that is flamboyant and other things that we want to improve.

我们不是专家，所以每年,都有很出彩的东西,还有其他一些我们想提高的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Now again we're not-- the purpose of this class isn't to have you improve your diet, if that happens that's fine, but that's not the purpose of the class.

现在再次重申,本门课的目的不是改进你的饮食,如果你的饮食因此改善,那很好,但是这不是本门课的目的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, as I put it, in fact I think I put it this way on the syllabus, participation--and here I mean respectful participation, not hogging the limelight... participation can improve your grade, but it won't lower your grade.

所以，像我这么陈述的，事实上，我想我用这种方式在课程表上，参与，在这里我是指尊重的参与，而不是想出风头的那种。,参与能够加分，而不会使你的分数变少。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So just to reinforce this, I could run gcc math2.c but I'm getting a little tired of this a.out convention and recall that there's this utility called "make" that right now doesn't really improve much, other than give it a better name.

所以我强调这点，我可以运行“gcc，math2，c“,但是我不是很喜欢a，out这个默认的名字,想取消它，那么这里有个叫做“make“的命令“,这个命令现在没有很大的改进，只是把用来更改名字用的。

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