Officials say the improvements could take as long as two years.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

What I thought about was "what was the class that I would have wanted to take as an undergraduate here?

我所想的是“如果我是个本科生，会想上什么课？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And so I think we need to take action as soon as possible to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

所以我觉得我们需要尽快开始行动，减少二氧化碳排放。

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But no matter where the conflict is or what it's about, if you're serious about peace, you can't take as final the first 'no,' the second 'no' or even the hundredth 'no.'" In her statement, Secretary Clinton promised an "unwavering" U.S.commitment to a two-state solution, based on 1967 lines with agreed land swaps, that will create an independent and viable Palestinian state and an Israel with secure and recognized borders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And then I take as many raisins as will fit in and I leave. Right? I hope almost every one of you could figure out that was the right strategy.

然后我再尽量装葡萄干,最后我离开，对吧？,我希望你们每个人都发现了这是最优策略。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"I will take the children on an outing as well. I will take them to the zoo or to the park.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

But we also know there needs to be space for other conversations. In fact I think many of the conversations are that they have started on the community action trip that they might take as they enter freshman year or the outdoor action trip or other informal ways of making connections.

但是，我们也知道，他们也需要,进行其他对话的空间，实际上,我认为这些对话发生在很多活动中,比如说，学生们在大一时可能参加的,一些社区活动,或者是一些课外旅行,或者是其他一些娱乐交流活动。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The W.H.O.says pregnant women should take the antiviral drug Tamiflu as soon as possible after they show signs of illness.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

It's a misnomer, but the historical transmutation of Milton's title we have to take as instructive.

这是一个误称，但弥尔顿作品标题的历史变化,对于我们来说是有教育性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They were with their parents. As Faith Lapidus tells us, it was Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

I computed the returns on the stocks, bonds, and oil for every year from 1983 and I computed the average returns, which I take as the expected returns, I took the standard deviations, and I took the covariance.

我计算了从1983年以来每年的股票,债券和石油的收益，从而得出平均收益率，这些平均收益率作为预期收益率，然后算得标准差及协方差。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She met with twenty women that the widows' association had chosen as good candidates to take part in the program.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Maybe the disregard option just is one that we can't actually take on as an intellectually acceptable alternative.

也许选择无视只是一个,我们不能作为理性上可接受选项的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Take the example of Facebook. It was launched in two thousand four as a social network just for Harvard students.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

So, as an example, let's take argon, I've written up the electron configuration here, and let's think about what some of the similarities might be between wave functions in argon and wave functions for hydrogen.

所以作为一个例子我们来看看氩，我已经把它的电子构型写在这里，我们来考虑氩和,氢波函数之间的,一些相似性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He had to take care of her. He says he woke up in the middle of the night as usual.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

It's deep and you better take a flashlight because it's as black as it can possibly be.

它深不见底,你最好带上手电筒,因为它要多黑有多黑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As a result, patients at risk of blockages might be advised by their doctors to take a low-strength aspirin every day.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

You could take that as good news or bad news but the spotlight is not on us as much as we think it is.

你可以这把当成好消息，也可以当成坏消息,但聚光灯并不像我们想的那样，总是照在我们身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

I can't sell myself into slavery any more than I can take somebody else's life or take someone else as a slave by force.

不能将自己变卖为奴隶,我也不能剥夺他人生命，或胁迫他人成为奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This week,Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Of course that leaves all sorts of other foods as well to take account of, but those are the kind of advances we need.

当然还有其他许多食物,在这里并未考虑,那都是我们所欠缺的进展

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Never mind, if you are doing that strategy, take it from a Brit, most princes are as dumb as toast, not worth waiting for.

如果你真的采取这个策略,记住这句英国的俗语吧,王子和土司一样蠢,不值得你去等的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

To take part in a card game such as poker, my friend would have to ante up.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

It's only holy to people who take it as holy.

只有信奉的人来说，才神圣。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So-- if you don't feel comfortable doing it, don't do it-- what I'd like to do now is as following: Take your thumb and your middle finger and create as much as possible a 90 degree angle.

感觉不舒服的，就不要做，希望按下面的指示做：,让你的姆指和中指,尽可能形成一个直角。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选