Before returning to the talks they said developed nations are trying to sideline the Kyoto Protocol a legally binding deal that set reduction targets for 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

and it struck me that that there was a lot missing from the picture that has been given in Washington as they were trying to set policies that would affect education, that would affect the regulation of entertainment in terms of understanding of young people's relationships to technology.

让我感到震惊的是,在整件事情上还有许多东西不为人所知,在华盛顿这些都展示于世人面前,正如他们在制定政策,能够影响教育的发展，影响娱乐业的行业规则,至于了解,年轻人与技术的关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

What that is, is an organ pipe of the type of organ that we have over in Woolsey Hall, thirty-two feet tall, this gigantic sound of down there so that's what he's trying to set up.

这是一种管风琴,梧希音乐厅就有,三十二英尺高,巨大浑厚的低音,正是施特劳斯努力展现的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

U.S.President Barack Obama set the tone, warning against trying to go it alone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

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

"This is about trying to tackle an exceptional economic crisis, far beyond the financial system and set in place measures, measures that really do make a difference,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

You set yourself the goal of trying to put yourself in the situation imaginatively of what it's like to be dead.

你给自己一个目标,试着假想自己,在死亡这种情况下。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We're going to differentiate with respect to q1, the thing we're trying--our control variable, the thing we're trying to maximize the thing with respect to and set it equal to 0.

对q1求导,q1是控制变量,也就是我们想要求出的最大值,令它等于0

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

metaphysically there're different ways of trying to pose the set of issues that I've begun to talk about.

从形而上学来看我们有,不同的方法来提出,我刚才说的论点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选