This is presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs "Many may believe that we can't afford to do anything,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

OK, so do we know anything so far that we can point to that would give us a departure?

好，到目前为止我们能在我们了解到的,东西中找出一些违背这些规律的例子吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We cannot do anything about protons, they are buried in the nucleus, but we can add or subtract electrons.

我们不能改变质子，它们埋藏在原子核内，但是我们能够增加或减少电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

.. We've done a lot-- I shouldn't say we haven't done anything-- but we can do a lot more.

我们做了很多-,我不该说我们什么都没做-,但是我们可以本做得更好。

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Yeah, but I suppose there is nothing much there is anything we can do about it right now?

是的，我想对于这件事我们能做的很有限？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

If you think about the American idea as an example of the modern way of thinking about these things, the notion is we can't do anything.

如果你以美国式理念作为,一种现代思维方式去,思考这些内容的话,就会觉得无法可施

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It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

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