"It taught me to be dedicated, and that if you want to be successful, you have to put in a lot of time and effort.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.

他花费了很多的时间和精力来研究,人们想要在下个星期买进什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"With our turtle release program, it is a compensation-based program where when the fishermen give us a call to go and rescue a turtle, we check the biometric measurements, tag the turtle, and compensate the fishermen for the time and effort they have taken to save these turtles and call us."

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

If you are like me, too difficult about getting places on time, you have to make an extra effort the way I do, and arrive on time.

如果你们像我一样，容易迟到，你们就要像我一样努把力，要准时上课。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I really did. I mean,sure, maybe we could do it again, but it's tough I mean the amount of money time and effort that goes into these things puts a huge strain on the city and the resources, so I hope we go for it again but I think it's hard,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

Obviously with this sort of partitioning of behavior, and activities, and effort, there's not a lot of time leftover for leisure, for development of new technologies and things like this.

显然,采用这样一种,行为,活动及精力的分配方式,自然不会剩下很多时间,用来娱乐,发展技术和改革创新

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She says both partners have to give their time,effort and, in many cases, income for the good of the family.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

People put more time,effort and money into decorating their homes with these ornaments, lights and religious scenes.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Republicans and Democrats expressed identical concerns that by engaging in negotiations, Iran may be playing for time in an effort to move ahead with weapons-related enrichment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

This comes at a time when opinion polls show dropping support among Americans for the military effort in Afghanistan, where Afghan,American and NATO coalition forces together are fighting the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

This is the time of year when we see usually an effort by the insurgents to knock us of course and to try and attack the coalition and indeed the government of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"He has improved information-sharing, increased intelligence support to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, upheld civil liberties, and he played a key role in our effort to update and reorient our intelligence community to meet the threats of our time."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02