But the thing they wanted most was the thing they lacked - a child to call their own.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

I wanted to call attention to a few places in the text in which it is a question of expectation and of the way in which this expectation can be violated.

作品中有一些地方，我想引起大家的注意,那是一个关于，期望,和造成期望可违背的方式，的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They didn't say God because, of course, the Enlightenment thinkers were not so sure they believed in God, but they still seemed to believe in something they wanted to call a creator.

他们没有说是上帝,因为,当然,启蒙思想家们并不确定他们,是信仰上帝的,但是他们似乎仍旧,信仰所谓的造物主

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They wanted the book to be a hopeful call to action.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

And we've been working with them What I will call it prototype; we have not yet done a complete project. But I wanted to show you some pieces of this on slides. So one of the things we've done is create a searchable archive.

我们与他们合作,我称之为草案，我们还没有完成一个完整的项目,但我想给你们看一些幻灯片,我们做的其中一件事就是,创建一个可搜索的档案馆。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选