他使自己陷入了困境，难以摆脱。

He had got himself into a hole and it was going to be difficult to get out of it.

《牛津词典》

他使自己渺小；他把自己变得庞大；但是再也没有影子出现。

He made himself little; he made himself great; but no shadow came again.

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他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.

《新英汉大辞典》

It's one of the purposes of this poem to allow Milton to grow out of his infancy, to incarnate or to put actually into words the talent that he believes himself to possess.

还有一个目的就是,使弥尔顿自己不断成熟，把他相信自己所拥有的,天赋变为文字。

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So the president spent lot of his time not just to keep himself infromed.

因此总统会花很多的时间,不仅仅使他自己信息灵通。

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And proceeds to do the only thing he can do to defend himself against Hal, which is shut down the program, basically killing-- if we can talk that way--killing Hal.

而他唯一,能使让哈尔不伤害到自己的举措,就是关闭该程序,基本上也就是杀死,如果我们可以那样表达的话,杀死哈尔

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