Take the example of Facebook. It was launched in two thousand four as a social network just for Harvard students.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so I think we need to take action as soon as possible to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

所以我觉得我们需要尽快开始行动，减少二氧化碳排放。

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I will take the children on an outing as well. I will take them to the zoo or to the park.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Okay. Now I want to turn to Tony as an instance of the way in which reading for the plot can take place.

好了，现在我想回头讲《托尼的拖车》,这是一个说明我们会去阅读情节的好例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They were with their parents. As Faith Lapidus tells us, it was Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Literally, return the control from this function, and take the value of the next expression, and return that as the value of the whole computation.

正如字面意义上说的，从这个函数返回，然后取得下一个表达式的值,并把这个值作为整个计算的结果返回。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She met with twenty women that the widows' association had chosen as good candidates to take part in the program.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

It's gonna take, as I mentioned earlier, probably 10 to 20 years. These years will be very interesting and I look forward to them. Thank you!

那会花费，如我先前提到的，可能,10到20年的时间，这些年会非常有意思,我很期待，谢谢！

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

It probably has some risk, but the way we approximate things in finance, we take the government as riskless.

它可能存在一定的风险，但在金融学上，我们忽略其风险，将政府债券看作无风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He had to take care of her. He says he woke up in the middle of the night as usual.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Because that will give you some kind of evidence as to which one you take to be you.

因为那样就能给你一些提示,让你知道哪个是你认为的真正自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

And they had, of course, the strength of mind, as well as the audacity and cunning, to take advantage of this situation.

当然他们拥有强壮的心智，大敢且奸诈，并能依势获益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Anyone can appreciate The Simpsons but I think it does take education to appreciate Shakespeare as much.

任何人都能看懂《辛普森一家》,但是我认为确实需要教育,才能理解莎士比亚的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This week,Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

So that's what you do; that's what you take up as your next project.

这就是你想做和你下一步要实现的;,于是你描绘了你自己的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

So, let's think about kind of differentiating, however, between first ionization energy or just ionization energy, and other types such as second or third ionization energy, and let's take boron as an example here.

那么，让我们来区分一下第一电离能，也就是电离能与其他类型的电离能，比如第二，第三电离能，我们以硼为例。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

To take part in a card game such as poker, my friend would have to ante up.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

And what I was trying to persuade her in this meeting was to take me on as one of her students, to let--to be my adviser.

谈话中，我试图说服她,接受我这个学生，做我的指导老师。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

my first responsibility, as I just said, was to take care the president.

我的第一个任务，正如我刚才说到，是照料总统的事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The World Health Organization says pregnant women should take the antiviral drug Tamiflu as soon as possible after they show signs of being sick.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

I'll cover them of course and go over what I think the key points are, but if I don't discuss the readings in class please don't take that as a sign that the readings aren't important.

我会对其进行讲解,并且指出重点部分,如果有课上没讲到的阅读材料,不要以为这些不重要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That is because,as people get older, the body loses its ability to take it from foods.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

But we also know there needs to be space for other conversations. In fact I think many of the conversations are that they have started on the community action trip that they might take as they enter freshman year or the outdoor action trip or other informal ways of making connections.

但是，我们也知道，他们也需要,进行其他对话的空间，实际上,我认为这些对话发生在很多活动中,比如说，学生们在大一时可能参加的,一些社区活动,或者是一些课外旅行,或者是其他一些娱乐交流活动。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a misnomer, but the historical transmutation of Milton's title we have to take as instructive.

这是一个误称，但弥尔顿作品标题的历史变化,对于我们来说是有教育性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选