That is what researchers at Keele University in Britain set out to discover.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Researchers at the Denver Health Medical Center set out to evaluate the effectiveness of this kind of testing.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

And that's what he set out to do.

这就是他准备做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The committee will not set out to apportion blame or consider issues of civil or criminal liability,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

I hadn't set out with a plan that I wanted to teach at some of the best universities in the country.

一开始，我并没有给自己制定目标,一定要在这些最好的大学执教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And that is exactly what I set out to do." The last event of the Championships will be the final of the men's four-by-400-meter relay.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

You're going to work out what firm's demands are going to look like for each possible price they could set.

你们要解出,公司针对每一个其可能设定的价格,它的需求是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Swan set out to change that. Invited to speak to world leaders at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, in 1992 he outlined a plan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

All right? And I'm going to say-- sort of set that stage here, so that-- It turns out that that's probably about the best we can do, or again ends at the length of the list.

我要说的是，这一阶段的集合,我们用最优的方法完成,还是取决于列表的长度，好的，还是回到了我的问题上了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So I set out on a journey to see his buildings and to find whatever was left of him out there."

VOA: special.2011.07.24

And so if you choose to elect the hacker edition of this week's problem set the challenge will be to figure out not only how to implement the game but how to implement a solver for the game.

因此，如果你选择这周的应用题目为升级版,那么你将面临的挑战,不仅是如何实现这个游戏，而且,要实现此游戏的解决方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

To carry out the experiment, a team led by Kees Keizer set up several situations in public areas to test people's behavior.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

我自己作为一名英国诗人有意地,在我称作感性的声音中写出音乐感。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army as it fled from coalition forces.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And finally, we often think of a set of materials for teaching, there's a set of lectures notes that we hand out to students, for example.

最后，我们常想有一堆材料,来教学，比如我们,常常发给学生的讲义。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

One morning the family set out in their wooden boat with fishing poles to catch some supper.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It does that through a complex set of sort of cellular interactions, and it turns out also gene rearrangements if you go further to study that.

而这此过程中,发生了一系列复杂的细胞间的相互作用,也会涉及到基因重排,如果你们深入学习的话就会学到

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So Bill set out across the rough country to find this gang of men.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I needed to find out who he really was. So I set out on a journey to see his buildings and to find whatever was left of him out there."

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德，他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

(Sound) According to state-run Press TV, a three-member committee has been set up to work out the details.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Finally a canal company official showed up and set fire to sheaves of green corn to literally smoke the boatsmen out of the tunnel.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

You get a set of solutions that are dependent upon -These quantum states fall out of the solution to this equation.

你得到一系列的解,这些解依赖于量子状态,和方程解不相干的解。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In a White House bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, the president reaffirmed a goal he set out early this year: to double exports of U.S.goods and services in the next five years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Milton tells himself to run, and naturally he would have to run fast indeed in order to arrive at a moment in time that had already occurred before he even set out!

弥尔顿告诉自己要跑起来了，而且他也确实不得不跑的很快,从而准时到达,他刚出发时就已经存在的目的地！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选