The goal,as always, is to follow English learners wherever their interests take them.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Would it be better for people to be able to see everyone and maybe not feel like this is a secure environment in which they can share their interests and what they thought and what they care about?

我们可以选择,将用户信息全部公开,但在这样一个网络环境下,分享自己的所见所闻,所感所想,总会让人觉得不可靠？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

and you want to find out about their interests,

你想要了解他们的兴趣。

What kind of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Students create a profile about themselves and their interests.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

The pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don't feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Many seek only to satisfy their private wants, to satisfy their private interests.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

So historically, the course is a lot of sophomores who, like me perhaps, are realizing that they finally have time to explore beyond their own interests.

从往年数据上可以看出，上这个课程的大都是大学二年级的学生，可能跟当时的我一样，开始认识到我们终于有时间,来探究我们兴趣以外的事情。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"There was no consultation and I think they made a grave mistake against the interests of their own people."

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

But their lives and interests were far, far away from that economic large machine, which was Amsterdam.

但是他们的生活方式和利益,与机器大生产的,阿姆斯特丹相去甚远

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"But it sure ain't paying off now." Yet Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future says voters will understand that Mr.Obama is working in their best interests.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

And the rules of justice are simply the laws set up by the winners of the game to protect and to promote their own interests.

而正义的规则,当然是由赢家所制定的法律,用以保护与促进其本身利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I think we also agree that it is important to take every opportunity to try and persuade the Iranians to reconsider what is actually in their own security interests,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.

他说,乡下人就像模子里刻出来的,在他们的自留地里乱挖一气,或者在泥浆里面挖青蛙,从事着肮脏,没什么竞争性的工作,为嫉妒,贪婪和物欲所驱动

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The Institute for Peace study argues that by keeping a tight rein on their people while supporting U.S.security interests in their regions, nations such as Yemen,Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan fan anti-American sentiments.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

all their different interests that they are taking up in doing these large projects about.

他们有做大型专案项目的各种不同兴趣。

学生会馆的实习部门 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Admiral Mullen told a gathering of civilian government executives now that President Karzai's re-election has been made official by the cancellation of the runoff, he must exercise his leadership to convince Afghans his government has their best interests at heart.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But the typical reaction would be that the Corinthians would help, to the extent first of all, that they could and secondly, to the extent that it was consistent with their interests.

但一般来说,科林斯人会帮忙,但首先得在他们能帮的范围内,其次,得与他们的利益相一致

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

There are lots of incentives, people acting in their own interests--they have to do that.

有很多的动机，促使人们根据自己的利益行事-他们也不得不这样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选