The first lady has launched a program to motivate school children to eat healthy and to exercise.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

I think that we to motivate a lot of our regulation of financial markets by the kinds of errors that people make.

因为人们犯下了种种错误,所以我们应当促进金融市场的监管

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So just to motivate this a little bit, so there's two reasons why this game is interesting.

所以各位不必担心学不会了,这个博弈之所以有趣有两个原因

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Ghana's Serbian coach, Milovan Rajevac, says the prospect of becoming the first African team to reach the final four will motivate his squad.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The typical example of dilution is: the board of directors has hired a CEO for the company and they want to motivate the CEO.

摊薄的典型例子是,董事会为公司雇用了一位首席执行官,他们想激励这位首席执行官

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says the young boxers motivate him day after day despite budget cuts.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

And I tried to motivate this question by having you think about perhaps the possibility, if the soul view was the truth about personal identity, but imagine a case of complete irreversible amnesia, while nonetheless,it's still your soul continuing.

我试图通过让你们思考,灵魂理论有没有可能是个人认同感的真相，这个可能性，来推动这个问题，但是想象完全不可治愈的失忆，尽管你的灵魂仍然继续存活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But a new study finds that many schools across the United States are not doing enough to motivate or prepare students to pursue bioscience studies in college.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"And volunteer as you go, really help people, and then use your knowledge and ability with technology to connect people, to motivate them to go out and serve their communities."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

For the simplest context in which one can motivate a vector and also motivate the rules for dealing with vectors, is when you look at real space, the coordinates x and y.

对于最简单的情况,我们能用矢量,以及相关的规则来处理的,是实空间,x-y 坐标系

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I want to motivate regulation in terms of the last lecture.

我将由上节课的内容引出促进监管的主题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think they motivate a lot of what -I'm going to write a number of principles of behavioral finance down and just mention them briefly and then return to regulation.

我认为他们促进了这些...,我先写一些行为金融学的原理,只是先简单地过一遍,再回到市场监管

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We gave shares to almost all of our employees as part of their compensation and we hoped that would motivate them and make them feel a part of the company but we never paid them a dividend.

我们几乎将所有股票都发给了员工,作为他们的薪酬,希望能这样激励他们,让他们感到,自己是公司的一份子,但是我们从不发放股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选