But after eight years of war, amid rising casualties and wavering American public support, and with huge national security issues at stake, he says the administration needs to take its time and get the decisions right.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

So in those circumstances, I'm an advocate of active euthanasia. I think it is just as if you have a dog who was dying from some disease, you wouldn't say, well we just let nature take its call.

所以这种情况下，我通常会,支持安乐死，我认为,这就像是你的狗得了病,马上就要死了，你不会说，嗯，我们顺其自然吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To destroy this piece of paper I take its parts apart.

为了毁掉这张纸,我把它的各部分分开了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"So that the perpetrators of this act will be taken to court and that the process of the law must take its place and those who have committed this terrible act must face the law and face the punishment that they deserve."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Sometimes we have a very electronegative atom that's going to take more of its equal share of electron density.

有时候我们会有一个电负性很高的原子,它将会获取更多的共用电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Recognition of the harm asbestoscan do and the ban on its new uses did not take place until recently.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Its ionization would be I take one of the electrons on chlorine and throw it away.

这个离子化的过程就是,从钠原子中取出一个电子,并扔掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"In short,our goal is to get G.M.back on its feet, take a hands-off approach and get out quickly."

VOA: special.2009.06.05

And its purpose in life is to maybe take input and maybe produce output.

它的唯一目的是可能是获得输入,可能是输出东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Ben decided to take the bird home and fix its broken wings so that it could fly again.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Now, assuming that we trust the government-- I think the U.S. Government has never defaulted on its debt-- we'd take that as a riskless return.

假设我们信任政府-,假设美国政府从未拖欠债务-,可以把它当作无风险回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He knew that the South African government was trying to change its image so it could take part in the Olympic Games.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One of the last decisions of its term will likely cause employers to take greater care in how they choose workers to promote.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.21

We never sell the wine before its time, something like that. On television, in different acting roles, he would take any worthless role in somebody's movie just because there was such a large fee, and he will pour that into his movies.

之前人们对这种酒闻所未闻，在电视上，在饰演,不同的角色时，他在一些电影中做不起眼的角色,因为这可以,赚到一大笔钱，然后可以投到自己的电影中。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They discussed steps to take in dealing with Iran and its nuclear program.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Hydrogenation is an interesting process and will bring us to the discussion of Trans fat in just a few minutes, but it's basically when you hydrogenate a food you are altering its chemical properties to take a soft fat and make it more solid.

氢化是个有趣的过程并且,一会儿我们将由它引出反式脂肪的话题,但基本上,对食物进行氢化,是在改变食物的化学性质,将软脂酸变为硬脂酸

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The government owns Dubai World and will take control of its restructuring.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

At any point on the graph you can take the derivative, which will be tangent to the curve at each point, and its numerical value will be what you can call the instantaneous velocity of that point and you can take the derivative over the derivative and call it the acceleration.

在图上的任意一点,你可以进行求导,得到曲线上每一点的切线斜率,所得到的数值,即为该点处的瞬时速度,然后你再求一次导,得出它的加速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Its deep roots can find and take up groundwater.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

What we're going to do is take this plasmid, with its promoter gene construct in it and engineer it, to take out the lacZ gene, leaving in the promoter and putting in the protein that we want - the gene for the protein that we want.

我们要做的就是提取包含,它自己的启动子基因的质粒,并对其进行一些修改,剔除lacZ基因,留下启动子,把我们的目标蛋白植入--,我们生产目标蛋白的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is an important step forward, as a sovereign and united Iraq continues to take control of its own destiny,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

So, for example, in an electrochemical cell, it would be possible to take the sodium ion, give back its electron, and convert it into a metallic sodium, take the chloride ion, remove its electron, and restore chlorine gas.

所以，例如一个电化学的电池，它可能带有钠离子，让它得到电子，把它变成金属钠，得到氯离子，让它失去电子，作为氯气储存。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"At some point this administration has to take responsibility for what it is doing and take responsibility for its decisions,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

So there is a harp, making its melodious harmonious sounds, and then you take an ax to the harp, bang bang bang, chop chop chop, or a hammer whatever.

假设这有一个竖琴,发出悦耳和谐的声音，然后你拿起一把斧子，梆梆邦，砍砍砍，或者拿一把锤子。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The coroner's office says results from its toxicology tests could take up to six weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

And so we might need to work out various, more complicated, formulas here, where we multiply the pain times its duration and take into account its intensity, get the sheer quantity of pain that way.

我们需要编制出各种，更复杂的公式，以便增加痛苦的倍数，延续时间,还要考虑痛苦的强度，获得痛苦的纯量。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So that you take every sodium and you count all of its nearest neighbors, next nearest neighbors, next next nearest neighbors, not only on a line but in the plane and above and below in all three dimensions and go through that calculation, it is even more negative.

你考虑到每一个钠原子,你要考虑到它最近的原子，第二近的原子，第三近的原子，不是在一条线而是在一个面上,以及面上与面下的三维空间,再完成计算，这将会更负。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选