"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

I wasn't able to go to the actual graduation ceremony but I was at the class-day ceremony for those seniors to graduating from the religion department. -Right.

额，我没有去成毕业典礼仪式,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼，-恩。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think that I saw... Well, for one thing, I wasn't able to get the kind of jobs that I was interested in.

我觉得我意识到……一个原因是，我找不到感兴趣的工作，

哥伦比亚的第一印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The worst part of it was that I thought I wasn't gonna be able to stop.

VOA: standard.other

But middle way through my first year in law school, I just felt like it wasn't something I would really be able to do.

但是在我学习法律的那一年期间，我就发现,这不是我真正想做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

.. Because you wouldn't have... You wouldn't be able to make money, you wouldn't be able to own property if there wasn't that socially, like, if society wasn't stable, and that's completely different from religion.

因为你不可能。,如果没有社会条件，如果社会不稳定,你就赚不到钱，更别提拥有财产了，这跟宗教完全是两码事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Because I wasn't able to afford, like, to pay the full price of the Yale degree.

因为靠我自己的财力，我肯定支付不起耶鲁全额的费用。

耶鲁奖学金获得者 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And the accounting unfortunately at that point in general wasn't really able to reflect that difference

然后总体来说在这点上很不幸，因为会计记帐不能反映出那些区别，

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But I was, I wasn't able to join this semester

但是我，呃，我这个学期不能参加。

乐团怎么样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人