They laugh when I tell them how I killed Jules Simon and stole his diamond to make the perfect lens.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

So I'm really just interested in how filmmakers make films for what motive they have in common, why they make them and how they choose to present reality.

所以我对电影制作者们,在制作电影时有没有什么共同的动机,他们为什么要制作电影，如何用电影反映现实,等方面很感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

to make them thinner, then they're welcome to do that.

来减轻体重，他们完全可以这样做。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They seem like the hard rock maple trees often found in that area, nothing can make them move.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It may not generate high income, but it can make them feel like they're making contributions in one way or another.

这样的工作可能不会带来高收入，但可以使他们觉得自己,在某些方面作出了贡献。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They were big,rough fellows. They had chosen me as the only 'Dutchman' -- as they called me -- to make them laugh.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The father yells at them, says, Make that cat shut up, and they can't He says, "Make it shut up. I don't care.

但父亲喊道：,“让那猫安静“，可他们无能为力,可父亲又说：“让它安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or,they place long thin rolls of clay on top of each other and then make them smooth.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Did they steal the land or the factory or the goods that enabled them to make all that money?

让他们赚到钱的土地，工厂，或者商品,这些生产资料是不是偷来的？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It is also a place where counterfeiters can find all the materials they need to make them.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

You know from experience if you've ever mixed them to make salad dressing, they don't mix too well. And you may know that if you heat them up, they mix much better.

经验告诉我们,你无法把它们混合做成色拉酱调料，他们不会很好的混合，但是你也知道,如果我们把他们加热，就能够混合的更好。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

If they arrive before you are ready to plant them, make sure the packing material is moist.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

I will strike them with pestilence and disown them, and I will make of you a nation far more numerous than they!"

我要用瘟疫杀死他们，叫你的后裔成为一个国家，比他们强盛“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Killing them is a sin,he explains, because they don't hurt anyone, they just make music.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

It turns out that if you make them forfeit their cash value on canceling, then they won't cancel.

但是如果你规定保单的现金价值,会随保单的取消而消失,他们就不会这么干了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They worry that something they say or do will make others laugh at them.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

They can reproduce and so you only need to give a few of them in order to make many, many inside the body.

它们能自我复制,所以只需少量病毒,就能在体内产生大量的病毒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"And we want to make sure that NASA is going to be there for them when they want to take their journey."

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

I'm not sure if they make you pay a deposit, but I think you can just check them out, and then you'll have them for the semester.

我不知道是否需要交押金,不过你们可以去登记领取,使用一个学期的时间

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

KickStart sells its pumps to poor rural farmers, with the promise that they can make money with them.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

All right, turn them off. If they have to make noise as you turn them off, turn them off, but that's it. So, when you walk through that door, it's an act of free will.

好了，把它们关掉，如果一定要发出声音,当关机的时候，也要关机，就这样，当你走进那扇门，这是自由意志的选择。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"What happens when you digitize these books and make them accessible on the net is that they get a lot more use,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.31

I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In regular short-selling,traders borrow assets and sell them at a set price, hoping they can make a profit by buying them later at a lower price.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

If they type in bogus characters, it's going to yell at them and make them retry, and eventually I'm going to get handed back an int, which I'm storing in n. Well, if I actually want to judge this number based on its magnitude, well, I can say now, "If n is greater than or equal to one."

如果他们键入了不合法的字符，它将对他们叫喊,然后叫他们重试，最终我将,得到一个int数，它是存储在n中的，好的，如果我的确想要根据它的量级来判定这个数字，好的，现在我可以指明，“是否n大于等于1“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"It is absolutely unacceptable to have individuals suffering in silence because they're afraid their peers or superiors will make fun of them,or worse, it will adversely affect their careers,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"They will have to make decisions on their own and only then report to the Earth, and the Earth will tell them whether they did the right thing or not."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

How many of you have heard the term used before? How may have you heard the term used before in terms of programming languages? Great. For the rest you, don't sweat it. This is a highfalutin term that computer scientists use to try and make them look like they're smarter than they really are.

这里就要引入递归的概念了,你们中有多少人以前听过这个词？,你们中有多少人在编程语言中,用过这个词？,很好，剩下的同学也不要担心,这是电脑科学家们用来让自己,显得更聪明的夸张词汇。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.

他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选