They want to be sure that he is not dealing off the bottom of the stack of cards.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

To be sure, Machiavelli focuses on key aspects of political reality which are often ignored by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.

事实上马奇亚维利所专注的,政治现实观点,是其它思想家所常遗漏,像柏拉图和亚里士多德。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

to make sure that it's going to be a comfortable pair of shoes that last me a long time.

来保证这双鞋很舒服而且可以穿很久。

不需要名牌 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So, it's perfectly okay to be part of a collaboration, but you've got to make sure that you're pulling your weight.

所以,参与小组讨论是完全允许的,但你要保证你在其中有所作为

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So someone returning from mass displacement, even though I'm sure are thrilled to be going home, they bring with them all sorts of challenges upon their return."

VOA: special.2011.07.06

So again, we should be able to check all of our formal charges and make sure they add up to 0, which they do, and that makes sense, because we have a neutral atom in terms of thionyl chloride.

因此同样地，我们可以检验一下,我们所有的形式电荷是否正确,确保它们加起来等于零，而它们确实是这样，这是合理的，因为亚硫酰氯是一个中性原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Staring through the magnifying glass, Mikhaiel makes sure that all of the pieces - called tessarae - are exactly where they are supposed to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

I mean, in many ways, to be sure, Hobbes was a product of his time, ? and what else could he be?

在很多方面看来，确实，霍布斯是他那个时代的产物，他还能是什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Other issues sure to be addressed during his talks with President Obama include American policy toward Pakistan,and the status of the civilian nuclear agreement the United States and India signed last year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Weird things, bad things can happen and so one of the lessons too that will be repeated throughout the course is to actually rigorously error check and make sure that you're always thinking about your user being a bad guy.

各种古怪的事情就会蜂拥而至,所以在这个课程中我反复强调,要一丝不苟地检查错误,你就当你的用户是个调皮捣蛋的家伙。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Wouldn't that be sure and swift justice since the plea of guilty is the strongest form of proof known to the law?" Some legal experts continue to raise questions about the validity of the military commissions, even though the Obama administration and Congress have taken steps to give defendants more rights in that process.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Now, the Renaissance city-states of Italy had relatively efficient administrations, to be sure.

有一点应该明确,文艺复兴时期时,意大利的城邦国家就已经出现了相对高效的官僚政府

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The first thing I want to be sure was all students understand about the mechanics of the course and the best way to learn about that was to read very carefully the paragraphs at the bottom.

首先我想确认,大家都能明白这门课的授课形式,大家最好都去仔细阅读,刚发下去的课程大纲,请看这一页的底部。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Such men have no other rule, but that of force and violence," listen to this, "So may be treated as beasts of prey those dangerous and noxious creatures that will be sure to destroy to you " if you fall into their power", so kill them first.

这种人除强力和暴力的法则之外，没有其他法则“,注意这里，“因此可以被当作猛兽，危险和有害的动物看待,要落在它们的爪牙之内,就一定会遭到毁灭，所以先下手为强。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And the guys said, "Well, you know, The rooster works very hard " The rooster has sex dozens of times a day" " And she said, "Well, be sure to tell that to the president" The story goes, the president went around, the guy tells the story to the president The president asks the man, "Huh Has sex dozens of times each day ?" Same hen every time?"

那人回答说，“那只公鸡很卖力的,每天交配好几十次“,她就说“确保把这告诉总统“,然后总统走过来，那人也跟总统说了这事,总统问他,“每天交配几十次,是和同一只母鸡吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Sure. I guess my favorite form of public transportation would have to be the subway.

当然可以。我想我最喜欢的公共交通工具是地铁。

地铁的好处 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And in terms of using these equations in solving problems on the exam, and also using these constants, make sure if you think there might be any chance you're going to get any little part of a problem wrong or do a calculation inaccurately, you need to write out every single step of your thinking as you write out these problems.

而当你在考试过程中用这些公式,来解题时，加上运用这些常数，如果你觉得有可能,在某一小问上出错,或者出现计算错误，请务必把你的思路一步一步地都写出来,当你在答题的时候。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选