They asked him to fix Booth's broken leg.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Somebody rose and asked him if he had considered putting the elements in alphabetical order. They were very cruel.

有人起来问他,是否考虑过将这些元素,按字母顺序排列，他们非常冷酷。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They asked the court to declare him innocent because of insanity.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And then, they have this very complicated back-and-forth about things that they remembered, or didn't, and they hashed these things over: Then Carlo asked Dean if he was honest and specifically if he was being honest with him in the bottom of his soul.

于是，他们有了这个十分复杂的,关于他们想得起来想不起来的事的来回选择，并且他们充分讨论了这些事情：,然后卡洛问迪恩他是否诚实，特别是他是否,从灵魂深处对他诚实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Pope asked that they be sent to help him.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

"We asked,for instance, how voters felt about some of his programs and again, they are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03