It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

You are the 128th's column, you're the 64's, 32's, 16's, 8's, and we're gonna have to fix this slightly in a moment.

你是第128位，你是第64位，32位，16位，8位，我们一会儿要固定下顺序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And we were talking about how he wants to find ways to sort of fix and make better the,

我们谈论的是，他想用什么样的方式来提高教育，

优秀的MBA人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Coming up with a plan to fix the banks and the financial system is now the job for Tim Geithner.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

And depending on the mood I'm in, I either congratulate them, or I say ah, you screwed up, huh? Then you had to fix it.

看起来他们挺为这事儿自豪的，我的回应得看我的情绪怎么样了，我可能会庆祝他们或者说，啊，你搞砸了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And Jeffrey Olson says federal stimulus money this year has made it possible to fix roads and complete maintenance projects.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

You don't need this hack of just, like, manually adding a decimal point just to fix that problem.

你不需要这样来操作，比如，手动地加入小数点来修正这个错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Oh,yes." "Well,we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

The similes are continually working to unleash -and they're really quite unruly in this respect -to unleash the moral and the theological confusion that so much of the rest of the poem seems really quite eager to pin down and to fix.

这里的比喻不断的想要解脱束缚,-它们从这个方面来看也的确不受什么束缚,-解脱道德上和理论上的混乱无序,这首诗的剩余部分都显得急切于,下定论进行弥补。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Italian government is trying to fix the problem with the construction of a seven billion dollar system of moving flood barriers.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

These are not names that Plato gives, but it will make it easy for us to get a fix, roughly, on the different arguments as we move from one to the next.

这些名字不是柏拉图起的,但是这能方便我们,在逐一推进的时候粗略地了解一下,这些不同论证的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ben decided to take the bird home and fix its broken wings so that it could fly again.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

It means that we supplement our diets with all sorts of things to fix perceived deficits in this mineral, in this vitamin, in this thing that somebody tells us is good for us.

也就是说,我们只要听说哪些是有益的,就用各种各样的东西来进补,这种矿物质,那种维生素,诸如此类

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If it is necessary to borrow some money to fix the car, you should look for a friend who is an "easy touch".

VOA: special.2009.06.07

And similar is a leader, sometimes you don' t have all the information that you want, you've gotta be willing to say " i am gonna go with the best information that i have" i am gonna make the best decision that i can and if we were wrong, we admit it, and we fix it, but we won't just stand there.

同样，作为一名领导者，有时你无法取得,所有的相关信息，你要愿意主动地说,“我将最大可能地,利用手上的资料来工作”,“我要做出自己能够做出的最好的决定”,如果我们犯了错，就虚心承认而且设法改正，但我们不会袖手旁观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

"We're not there to fix them. So will they get into trouble after they've done this program?

VOA: special.2010.06.03

re now, gong to try to fix those mistakes and work with other nations to put ourselves back on track.

但是，现在我们想要改正这些错误，But，，we’,想和其他国家合作,让自己重归正道。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Leaders of the major developed and developing economies discussed ways to fix the world financial system.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

I don't understand why you'd want to take a pill to fix something that we know little about.

我不明白为什么你会愿意吃药片来治好一些我们甚至都不清楚的毛病。

对付压力的方法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When this happens, the heart attempts to fix the situation by beating harder and faster.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

R is going to be a fix number R times You don't know what it is right now.

等于一个常数 R 乘以,你现在还不知道它是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Technicians join him on stage to fix the robot instruments when anything goes wrong.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

What kind of things do you want to fix or improve if you become a lawyer?

要是成为了一名律师，你最想改进哪些方面？

要学习环境法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

And the intervention is not a quick fix, overnight change,"we can" seminar-- five-year intervention.

干预不是快速修复，不是能一夜改变的，他们实行五年干预。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This chemical will fix the painted image into the stone.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So let's, in order to fix ideas for this discussion, take an actual example.

为了进一步限定讨论的话题，我们举个真实的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A mordant helps fix the dye to the material.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

That's something we've mentioned already three weeks ago, two weeks ago, we're going to take that fix now, we're going to assume you know who these candidates are.

我们在三周或两周前已经提到过,现在来讲一下这种情况,我们假设你们知道这些候选人是谁

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But if most people who are good borrowers, who know what they're doing, want these, they want a conventional thirty-year mortgage because it will fix a mortgage payment for the rest of the thirty years and you have nothing to worry about.

但是如果大多数人是优质借款人,他们知道自己在做什么,他们会选择普通30年期抵押贷款,因为在剩余的30年时间里,抵押贷款的偿付是固定的,你不需要为它担心

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选