They say the technology for making flutes out of ivory is much more complex than for making one out of bone.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So we started with 10 valence electrons, we used up 8 of those electrons in terms of making bonds.

我们一开始有十个价电子，然后用掉了八个电子来成键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

People did not object to making young children work long hours, in places that had bad air and bad light.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Okay? So when you say that what you're doing is scientific in a context of this sort, you are making yourself vulnerable.

对吧？，所以在这种情况下你说自己所做的是科学的时,你就使自己站不住脚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In one part of the state of Oaxaca, potters have been making black clay containers in the same way for centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

It may not generate high income, but it can make them feel like they're making contributions in one way or another.

这样的工作可能不会带来高收入，但可以使他们觉得自己,在某些方面作出了贡献。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

They're actively engaged in the material, actually seeing the phenomena, by making measurements of real world experiments.

学生们能自主地参与到物质中，看见真切的现象，通过对真实世界实验,做出测量。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

And in the process of tidying it up and making it prettier, I'll often by accident find the bug.

让我的程序更漂亮些,在这个清理美化代码的过程中，我常常无意中发现我的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The other big problem with using human blood for making these blood agar plates is that they're actually not accurate."

VOA: special.2009.08.03

In making this point, Milton has just made us, I think, almost utterly unwilling to effect this justice that he himself has called for.

在这个论点中，我认为弥尔顿让我们，几乎完全不情愿地影响了这个审判,这个他说需要的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We need to do a much better job of making sure that what's in those vending machines is very consistent.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

It's one of the parts that makes us, that goes up into making us up, goes into making us up.

灵魂是组成我们的部件之一,它帮助构建了我们,它构建了我们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She says their latest findings should settle any question about the value of making sure every pregnant woman receives iron supplements.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

The Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn, just making sure that it didn't spread.

塞伦消防公司迅速开着消防车来到现场,眼睁睁看着房子烧掉，只是确保它不会蔓延。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In a half-hour news conference, he admitted making what he called "some incredibly bad decisions" that "hurt so many people."

VOA: special.2010.04.10

We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He knows that his life depends on his success in making a fire to warm himself and dry his clothes.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

I would go out and I was making a lot more in two weeks than my father made in two years.

我继续着我的工作，我两周时间所赚的钱,比我父亲两年赚的要多很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

I'm happy to take questions during break and after to actually making this hardware do something in software.

我很愿意在休息时间回答问题,然后使这个硬件在,软件领域发挥作用。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He was right. The trial of Andrew Johnson was an important turning point in the making of the American nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

It's something that we have to do over and over again, that is, making up the world.

这是我们必须反复不断做的事儿，也就是说，创造这个世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION -- an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The mother has her own way of using words for power, and she does it by making the kitten live again in his imagination.

同样凭借语言，母亲让死猫在理查的心中复活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Young people need to be given the opportunity to really feel like they are making a difference in the world.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

There's no company that's making smallpox vaccine anymore because there's no reason to make smallpox vaccine, because nobody would buy it, right?

没有公司还生产天花疫苗,因为没有人购买天花疫苗,因此早就没有理由继续生产它了,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And we talked about the error of the average and the mistake that these researchers are making, misunderstanding the nature of change.

然后谈到这些研究学者么犯的,一般性的失误和错误，误解改变的本质。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选