If you are a musician trying to make it in Senegal, you may find success but you will find it hard to make a living.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Trying to make it do it fast enough.

为了让它运行的更快。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just get to know people and you're, you almost want to make it as if you're not trying to sell something,

试着去了解客户，你要让人们觉得你并不只是为了卖东西，

旧金山的售货员 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Helen wanted to keep trying. She said, "I think it will make my mind stronger to do it now."

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I mean we haven't, we don't really have a second version which is constantly... So I guess for most of last school year I just worked on scaling and kind of trying to make it keep up with the increasing load and trying to make it so that we can expand more, adding more schools.

说实话，我们从来没有,第二个版本。,我记得，在上一学年大部分时间里,我都在致力于扩大网站规模,这样是为了应对,不断增长的访问量,我试着完成目标，这样就能吸引更多学校。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Because especially when it was being said that Michael was trying to make a comeback, and people had hoped that he would live and come back once again and hit the musical scene."

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

It's going to be your way of analyzing your own diet and trying to make sense of it.

大家需要按自己的方式,分析自己的饮食并进行解读

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And it works on the principle of trying to figure out how to make your way through the world, how to satisfy your pleasures or, in some cases, how to give up on them.

它试图在现实中找到,满足本我要求的方法，找到追求快乐的方法,有时是去找寻放弃的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I do think that he's trying to make good changes, but it's not going to be easy.

我认为他的确在努力要做一些改变，但这并不容易。

两党制度的优缺点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And you could interfere with a translation by degrading messenger RNA, for example. If you had a way to specifically chew up all the RNA molecules that are responsible for making a particular protein, you could stop it from being expressed even though your cell is trying to make it.

而你就可以通过,降解其mRNA来进行干扰,再举个例子,如果你能把表达特定蛋白的RNA,统统揪出来捣毁的话,你也能阻止这段基因表达,哪怕是你的细胞在努力表达这段基因

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Again, this probably should be cleaned up and in a couple of weeks we'll spend a day or half period trying, to clean it up and make it somewhat more precise.

以上内容还有待梳理,未来两周我们将会花上一天半左右的时间,试着梳理这些内容,使其更加精确

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Welles said, forgive me for repeating myself from a previous class, Welles said the problem with Citizen Kane is that it just look like a young film maker trying to set proof to the world that he can make movies. That's exactly what it was.

请原谅我,又要重复上次课上的话，威尔斯说，《公民凯恩》的问题在于,它看起来就像是一个年轻的电影制作人,试图去向世界证明,他能够做电影，的确是这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

who are just trying to, you know, make it through the, you know, through life.

这些人试着度过难关，打拼人生。

好莱坞的真面目 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, they created Wall Street Journal Online, which is WSJ.com, and they were trying to make money off of that, but people weren't willing to pay for it.

并且他们创建了《华尔街日报在线》,WSJ.com,尝试从那赚钱,但是人们不愿花钱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It depends on" is very useful when you're trying to make a decision when things are unclear and you're waiting.

当你在形势不明朗，仍在观望而无法做决定的时候，"It depends on"句型是一个非常有用的句型。

It depends on 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And that's basically trying to make sure our program has not regressed, as to say, gone backwards in how well it works. And so we always test it on everything.

这只是从根本上确保,我们的程序并没往后退，也就是说在可用性方面倒退了,因此我们在任何东西上,都要进行这样的测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The algorithm doesn't know that it's going to take this long to compute, it's just busy crunching away, trying to see if it can make it happen.

这很可能会发生，但是你知道的,算法本身并不知道，计算这个问题需要多长的时间，它就一直忙碌的算啊算。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

On Monday we-- I presented an introduction to evolutionary psychology, the looking at psychology from an evolutionary perspective, and trying to make a case and give some examples of how it can help illuminate and illustrate certain aspects of how the mind works.

周一，我们-,我对进化心理学做了介绍，从进化论角度看心理学，试图举一个案例,用一些例子说明它如何帮助阐明,从特定方面阐明我们的大脑怎样工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But a point I'm trying to make is, it sounds like anymore computers have gotten so blazingly fast, why should you worry about it?

但是这里我要讲的一点是，在任何一台计算机,都能这么快的运算的情况下，我们还管效率这个问题干嘛呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It just reinforces the point that I was trying to make a few moments ago that the crucial question is not survival per se.

这将强化我刚才试图阐明的一点,就是关键问题不是存在本身。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The point I'm trying to make is, fixed-program computers is where we started, but it doesn't really get us to where we'd like to be.

我要指出的一点是，我们从固定程序计算机开始说起，但它并不能让我们到达我们想去的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选