And I know how long a piece they want. Then I daydream a lot, trying to figure out what might be interesting for that group to do."

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To figure out even what this thing is, let alone how to use it properly. So, you know, I'm sympathetic.

就连认出这是什么东西（都很困难），更别说正确应用它了，所以我很同情这点。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

We actually invited her to Princeton to help us to figure out what a good Muslim chaplain would looks like.

我们之前还邀请她来学校帮助我们,弄清一个优秀的穆斯林教士是什么样的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"And I think al-Qaida is out there even as we meet trying to figure out how to do that."

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

It's important to figure out exactly how the Lady gets unstuck, and so that's what we're going to look at now.

搞清楚女士是如何摆脱困境是很重要的，因此我们现在要看这一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She is disturbed and trying to figure out why she is the way she is and what happened to her.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

this should be a pretty quick thing for you to figure out, so let's just take 10 seconds on this.

这对你们应该是个很快就能知道的问题，让我们花10秒钟想一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Back in 2005, when Frank Ruhli was trying to figure out how ancient Egypt's famous boy pharaoh,King Tut,died, he used CT scans.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The real issue is to figure out how to build constructs out of this that tackle particular problems, but the fundamental basics of computation are just captured in that set of mechanisms.

坏消息是当然这不是真的,真正的问题是怎么来,构建解决特定的问题的这些结构，但是运算的最基本的东西,仅仅体现在机制集里。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And eventually we are going to have to try to figure out what the end goal is.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I don't want to try to figure out how to make the characters behave later through animation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

You don't have to be very smart to figure out where one word begins and one word ends.

你并不需要非常聪明才能够确定,哪里是单词的开始和结束

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Right now,we need to figure out how we are going to get through the week."

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

So I'm going to have to figure out what the odds are of that in doing this exercise.

因此在做类似的博弈前,我们需要先弄清楚收益是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

We have to figure out is there a service that we can shut down."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Then, the next challenge was to figure out how to keep the dots on the streets because they were going all over the place.

接下来的挑战是,想办法让这些点固定在,街上，因为,它们总是不停地移动。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

As in other cases during the past few years, average travelers are now the ones paying the price by spending even more time in international airport terminals and undergoing increased screening, while security officials attempt to figure out just went wrong and who was responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

And, he's trying to figure out, see, lithium has one.

他在试图指出，看，锂有一个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We need to figure out some way to transfer resources, mostly in the form of technology, north to south, so that countries like India or China or continents like Africa have some decent shot at development without having to go through the fossil fuel era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

We have to try to figure out what Saussure is up to.

我们现在来讨论索绪尔。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"President Obama visited our area this week, and it was my hope that he would listen,really listen, to what the people are saying, I have been in Congress 16 months, but it does not take that long to figure out that Washington does more talking than listening."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

You might not want to know all of it and that's a really complicated question for an individual to figure out and a complicated question for society to figure out, what you want to make of available in the regard.

你不想什么都知道,这是个十分复杂的问题,无论是对个人,还是对社会都是如此,我们应该怎样控制它的使用范围

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But we are going to need you, not just here today, but you're going to have to go home and take some of what you've learned here and teach your families and folks -- the other kids in your schools who haven't had a chance to come, and figure out how you guys can get other people in your lives moving."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

So if you end up not doing well, the moral of the story is not to go running off and dropping the class, but to figure out what you did right, what you didn't do right, how to make the second paper better and the third paper stronger, again.

所以如果你们最终没有得到好成绩，这个课程不是让你们退却或是退课，但是去想想你所做的对的事，和不对的事，和怎么样让接下来的论文写得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I think the hardest thing was combining those two things and then figure out what the hell we were going to jettison.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

There is this include which allows me to include code, source code so to speak that other people wrote so I don't have to figure out for myself how to print things to the screen.

这个“include“可以让我加进一些代码来，比方说其他人写的源码,这样我就不用自己解决,如何在屏幕上输出了，别人已经为我解决这个问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I think it's one of our jobs here to figure out why that's the case.

我认为理解这里的含义是我们该做的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选