We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

And then we contribute to this great deception and it is this great deception that leads to the great depression-- the great depression in the ultimate currency of happiness.

就这样我们帮忙壮大了这个大骗局,正是这个大骗局导致严重的抑郁-,严重的抑郁是快乐付出的终极代价。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We don't care at all about corporations-- we should make that clear-- except as they contribute to individual welfare.

我们完全不关心企业-,我们应该明确这一点-,除非它们对个人福利有贡献。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So we can bring in four hydrogen atoms, which will each contribute another unpaired electron.

我们可以引入4个氢原子，每个贡献一个未配对的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So if we lower the synergy here, not only do I contribute less effort, but you know I contribute less effort, and therefore you contribute less effort and so on.

如果我们减少协同参数,不但我会少付出努力,而且你也知道我会少付出努力,因此你也会少付出努力,以此类推

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Those people would bank their calories, survive the next famine, contribute to the gene pool, and thereby create what we have today which are organisms, humans, who very much like the kind of diets that are creating problems.

这些人储存能量以保证,在下一次饥荒时得以幸存,使他们的基因保留在了基因库中,从而造就今天的生物体,即人类,人类非常喜欢这类饮食,从而引发了很多问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

All right. Last time we started asking ourselves about what are some of the other aspects of death that might contribute to its badness, or at least other features of death that are worth thinking about.

好了，上一次我们开始自问这样一个问题,死亡还有什么其他的方面,可能导致其坏处的原因，或者至少是其他值得思考的死亡的特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'll talk about cells and how they work, how cells in different parts of the body are different, why, and how they contribute to tissues at a very sort of simple level so that you can understand this as we start thinking about using cells for engineering purposes.

我们将会谈论细胞,它们如何工作,身体不同的部位细胞有怎样的不同,为什么它们有所不同,以及这些细胞如何,以十分简单的方式形成组织,这样当我们开始考虑用细胞,来满足工程目的时,你会更容易理解

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选