Governor Reeder took steps to make the voting fair.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

When there's a contradiction in our heads we're not happy and will take steps to make the contradiction go away.

当我们的心理活动出现矛盾时,我们会不安，会采取办法,让这种矛盾消失。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But there has to be two steps: a purification and then a sanctification to make it holy again.

但是这得有两个步骤：,先净化，再圣化。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All the same, Whitman said steps could be taken to make commercial shipping less vulnerable to piracy on the high seas.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

So we're to assume we can get to any piece of data, any instruction in constant time, and the second assumption we're going to make is that the basic primitive steps take constant time, same amount of time to compute. Again, not completely true, but it's a good model, so arithmetic operations, comparisons, things of that sort, we're all going to assume are basically in that in that particular model.

因此如果我们假设在恒定的时间内,我们可以取得任何一块数据,任何一种数据结构的话,我们要做的第二个假设就是,基本的原始操作计算花费的时间是恒定的,这个假设也不是完全正确的，但这个模型其实挺不错的，因此算法操作，比较，这一类的事情，我们在这个特定的模型中都假设是基本的,操作，花费的时间是恒定相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

European Union leaders are expected to make an announcement soon on specific steps aimed at ending the crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Once you're doing this on your own, -- especially, for example, on exam 2, which is a ways down the road, you won't be able to look at those steps, so you need to make sure that you can go through them without looking at them, but for now we can look at them as we are actually learning how to draw the Lewis structures, and rather just go through them step-by-step, it's more interesting to do it with an example.

每当你要画一个路易斯结构的时候，特别是，比如，在第二次考试中，在不远的将来，你将看不到这张表，因此你需要确保自己在不看这张表,的情况下也能按照上面的流程来画，但是目前我们是可以看着这张表,来学习如何画路易斯结构的，而相比于一步一步地讲，通过例子来演示一下会更有意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Instead,Mr.Obama made clear he wants to see President Karzai take the steps needed to make his government credible in the eyes of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

President Nasheed says although wealthy nations have pledged to take steps to halt global warming, they have not committed to carbon reduction targets that will make this possible.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"If this implies any practical steps taken against Israel, it will make it impossible for any Israeli government to take risks for the sake of peace and that will be detrimental for the peace process,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The popular,Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV broke into its regular news programming to make the announcement that President Obama had won the prize,noting that the President had taken "many extraordinary steps in trying to achieve a rapprochement with the Arab and Islamic world."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"People can do things in their own lives, with their children, they can do work in their communities to improve it and once you take those steps, the next logical step is to make sure that your government officials are doing the right thing."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25