And that for centuries thereafter, different rhapsodes repeated it but elucidated it, illuminated it, extended it, changed it, tried to improve it, sometimes they added stuff.

在这之后的几个世纪里,不同的史诗吟诵者重复着,讲解着,阐释着 拓展着,变化着,尝试改进着,有时还添油加醋

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

so if somebody wants to spend the money to improve their appearance then so be it .

所以，如果有人要花钱改善自己的形象，那就让他们那么做吧。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They may swallow their doubts because they have a sense that it will improve the market for their shares.

对这些疑虑他们只有忍受,因为他们很清楚,公司上市会增加他们的市场份额

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The psychoanalysis is about basically understanding mostly through the subconscious: that's how you understand it; that's how you improve the quality of life.

精神分析学主要通过潜意识分析：,它决定你的理解;,决定如何改善生活。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But at least they fixed all the streets, trains and everything else. So I welcome the stimulus and it will improve a lot of things.

但是至少他们对于道路，火车，等的维护非常好，因此我很欢迎这样的,刺激计划，相信很多事情都能得到改善。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So this is another kind of engineering, an engineering not to look more closely at how humans work but an engineering to improve their function when it's failing.

这便是另一种工程技术,它并不研究人体运作原理,而是强化某部位的功能,如果这个部位失效了的话

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So, as I put it, in fact I think I put it this way on the syllabus, participation--and here I mean respectful participation, not hogging the limelight... participation can improve your grade, but it won't lower your grade.

所以，像我这么陈述的，事实上，我想我用这种方式在课程表上，参与，在这里我是指尊重的参与，而不是想出风头的那种。,参与能够加分，而不会使你的分数变少。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So just to reinforce this, I could run gcc math2.c but I'm getting a little tired of this a.out convention and recall that there's this utility called "make" that right now doesn't really improve much, other than give it a better name.

所以我强调这点，我可以运行“gcc，math2，c“,但是我不是很喜欢a，out这个默认的名字,想取消它，那么这里有个叫做“make“的命令“,这个命令现在没有很大的改进，只是把用来更改名字用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And it still didn't improve my impression of him but I like his stuff.

这并没有改善我对他的印象，但是我喜欢他的作品。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I think it's obviously preferable to improve the products and sell it that way

我觉得显然较好的是改进产品质量来卖，

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Well you could stretch it and say that an example of engineering to improve human health is getting them from one place to another, but that would be more of a stretch than I'm going to make.

你只能勉强地说,这个工程学成果能通过把人们从一个地方,带到另一个地方来提高人的健康水平,我只能联想到这个程度

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选