I work at home so I just hoped that my computer would work right and not have a bad hair day also.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

All heat couldn't get successfully converted into work That would be desirable, but it's not possible.

都变成功,把全部热量变成功是非常令人期待的，但是这是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"It's not something that would work in the real world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

All the supreme court justices would share our social values. And most importantly, our programs would work the first time we typed them. By now you may have noticed that we do not live in an ideal world.

符合我们的社会价值观,但是最重要的是，我们写好的程序，第一次就能顺利运行,如今你可能已经注意到了,我们生活的并不是一个理想的世界。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Nourizadeh says Iran was probably hoping to win the release of five Iranian military men captured by U.S.forces in Kurdistan in 2005 in exchange for Saberi, but eventually realized that such a trade would not work.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06