"That means that all of us have to work together to make sure that we are taking seriously the investments we make in our children's future."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

In other words, only if we really are sure that the historicist act of reading is effective and works, if I know the meaning of a text. Well, fine.

换言之，要是我们确定,阅读这个历史主义行为是有效的，有用的，如果我知道文本的意思，那么，很好。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And at the end of class we'll announce which recitation that is, we'll also make sure to give you a little bit of a prize if you are, in fact, in that recitation.

而且在这节课的最后,我们将会宣布哪个讨论小组答题正确率最高，并给这个小组的每位同学,发个小奖品。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"What we've got to do is to make sure that in the year 2041 that we are not stupid enough as a world to go to Antarctica, which is not owned by anybody, and exploit it for fossil fuels."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Now, that is not the most general thing, but I'm sure you guys have some idea of why we are interested in that.

这并不是最普遍的情形,但我确定你们知道我们为什么喜欢它

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

FEINGOLD: "Are you sure that the troop buildup in Afghanistan will not be counterproductive vis--vis Pakistan?" HOLBROOKE: "No.I am only sure that we are aware of the problem, that we are working intensely with the Pakistani army."

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

sure there are differences. We see that our manuscripts are not exactly like those fragments, but there is a remarkable degree, a high degree of correspondence so that we really can speak of a relatively stable textual tradition but still some fluidity.

当然其中会有差异，我们手中的这些原稿,一定和那些片段有细微差异，但在很大的程度上,我们能说是和那文本传统大致相符的,但还是存在一些差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The U.S.will need to put some pressure on India to make sure that India is helpful in every regard, because we are going to rely a lot on Pakistan to do a lot of heavy lifting and difficult work,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

We are living in very unusual times and I am sure that Ben Bernanke and other central bank presidents are losing sleep right now because this is a time to challenge monetary policy makers.

我们现在正生活在一个非常特殊的时期,并且我很肯定本？伯南克,和其他中央银行行长们,正在日夜担忧，因为,现如今是一个挑战货币政策制定者的时代。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"From our side we will often bring our leaders of transportation, of ticketing,of athlete experience, to make sure that as corporate spokes-people we're supplementing what we can say with people who are truly in the weeds on these subjects every day."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

How it is to enter into the creation of films and what are the schools of thoughts that have origined by emphasizing one or the other so that immediately we'll be get into the question that you are already sensative to I'm sure.

怎样走进电影创作,电影创作有哪些相伴相生的,思想流派,我们很快就会,探讨这个问题,你已经对此有所感悟。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"The Calderon government has,in fact, performed very courageously in the face of these cartels and I think,we think, that we have to do everything we can to be a helpful neighbor and partner to make sure that we are successful in this,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

So, using the terminology of chemists, which is a good thing to do, because in this course we are all chemists, we want to make sure that we're not using just the physical description of the numbers, but that we can correlate it to 1 0 0 what we understand as orbitals, and instead of 1, 0, 0, 1s we call this the 1 s orbital.

我们最好学会，利用这些化学术语，因为我们这课,就是关于化学的，我们,不仅要知道，这些数字,的物理描述，还要能把它,和我们知道的轨道联系起来，我们叫它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"Tea is the world's second most popular drink, second to water, and there are literally thousands of tea formulations around the world, so the challenge for us, isn't finding new tea recipes, it's focusing and making sure we're developing things that are going to work."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

President Obama's efforts and his emphasis on education particularly technical education science and math, to want to have every kid in college by 2020, is to be applauded and that's a goal that we at NASA are really going to make sure that he can accomplish."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"What President Obama is going to be doing at the summit is to be working with President Calderon and Prime Minister Harper to discuss what we are doing collaboratively to deal with the challenge, making sure that our public health departments and officials are working closely together,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

"In order to verify the casualties of civilians we have launched an investigation into this case to make sure how many civilians are killed and to make sure that what these civilians were doing at 2:30 in the morning in that place that is not a residential place.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"We have been tasked by our respective presidents the foreign minister and I, to put meat on the bones, so to speak, to get to work to make sure that the expectations of both President Zuma and President Obama are met as we work more closely together on our bi-lateral relationship as well as on regional and global challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08