"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

For example, he begins by borrowing the Russian formalist distinction in trying to explain what fiction is between plot and story.

举个例子，他开篇在解释那种文体介于情节和故事之间时,借用了俄国结构主义的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

and so our organisation is trying to get as many medals as possible for the Olympics, for UK athletes.

所以我们的组织努力地为奥运、为英国运动员争取尽可能多的金牌。

正准备奥运会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says they might be trying to increase their dopamine levels to make up for the deficits in their reward system.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

And in very stark ethical terms, I think that very helpful for everyone who is trying to live a life of integrity and morality.

从严格的伦理角度来讲，这可以帮助人们,活出一个完整而道德的人生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I felt the story of a nation trying to industrialize C almost overnight C was perfect for me."

VOA: special.2009.05.10

I'm just trying to give you an idea of the variety of different canons for different churches in different regions.

我只是想让你了解一下,不同地区不同教会的各种正典书目。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Not having anything that they're striving for. Not going back to the moon or trying to go to Mars, or anything else."

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But they represent for us a direction That the research lab I direct is trying to hid in.

但他们给我们指出了一个方向,我所在的研究实验室就朝着这个方向努力。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The Global Snakebite Initiative is trying to increase the availability of good quality antivenom treatments and improve medical training for patient care.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The president that I work for, I always saw him trying to get first to the best policy based on his principles.

我辅佐的这位总统，我总会看见他努力根据自己的原则,规划出最好的政策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Senator Davis said the North was responsible for the growing split, because the North was trying to get complete control of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So any time I draw these molecular orbitals, I do my best, and I'm not always perfect, yet trying to make this energy different exactly the same for the anti-bonding orbital being raised, versus the bonding orbital being lowered.

所以我在画这些分子轨道的时候，虽然不是很完美，但我总是尽量,让反键轨道引起的，能量升高和成键轨道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really,really hard?

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Now, how many agree with that argument, agree with the libertarian argument that redistribution for the sake of trying to help the poor is wrong?

有多少人同意自由主义者的这一驳论，认为为了帮助穷人,进行财富再分配不对？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Senator Leahy was trying to get research money for Lake Champlain from the National Sea Grant Program.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Now,the nonprofit Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines is trying to expand production and lower the cost.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

I'm just trying to solve out for the equation of this point.

我刚才就是为了解方程

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Internships are huge. Everyone's just trying to get a feel for what experiences they want and what they want to do in the future."

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.

下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Social critics like to say that in children's activities these days, everyone gets an award just for trying, so no one will feel rejected.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

As we went from a company with $300 million to $3 billion to $60 billion, we had to put processes in place, for sure, to deal with the complexity of what we were trying to accomplish.

我们公司的资产由3亿美元,增加到30亿，600亿，所以我们应该有套程序，来处理这么复杂的情况,实现我们的目标。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

They said he was trying to gain southern support for himself in the next presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

especially as I am trying to develop my own thoughts and my own research questions for my future career.

尤其是就我未来职业方面，我正在尝试形成自己的观点，提出我的研究问题。

有印象的教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Automobile companies,for example, love to show fast horses when they are trying to sell their cars.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Yeah. I'm trying to be a film director, movie director for major motion pictures.

我在努力成为一名电影导演，一名动画电影导演。

要成为导演 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The group was accused of trying to gain information on American nuclear weapons, foreign policy and politics for the SVR -- Russia's foreign intelligence service.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

And I'm trying to suggest that Milton's composition of this poem is actually doing something for him, that it gets him somewhere, and that it's functional in a genuine sense.

我试图设想弥尔顿的这首诗,实际上是在为他做一些事情，使他，能够真正的发挥某些作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I'm trying to write these two unknowns in terms of these two knowns and you can solve for them.

我会试着将这两个未知量,用这两个已知量表示出来 这样你们就可以求了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选