He wanted to make sure parents knew they should have control over their children and expect cooperation from them.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

There's a certain pragmatic element behind this, basically we want to make sure that every human being has a dignified life.

这后面是有实用的因素，因为我们想确保,每个人都过上有尊严的生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Before eating the last slice, you could check with your friends to make sure it's alright for you to delve in.

在伸手拿最后那片披萨前，你可以跟你的朋友确认下，你吃完最后一片有没有关系。

Is it okay 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Jim White made it his life's work to make sure the public would see and enjoy the cavern.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

And I think as a organization, we try to make sure that those ideas get heard they get expressed.

我认为，作为一个组织，我们努力确保每个人的声音都能被别人倾听,能够抒发己见。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Harry Covert says the key to re-building the school, and all of Haiti,is to make sure the work is done right.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

But just to make sure, to stimulate interest, every Tuesday in recitation there'll be a ten minute quiz based upon the content of the homework.

但是只是确认一下，为了激发你们的兴趣，每周二的背诵课,将会有10分钟的测试,内容则是基于你们的作业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He had to make sure the great light on the top of light house would shine during the black storm.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

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

Older equipment powered by fossil fuels should be inspected every year to make sure it continues to be safe.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

I could generalize this pretty nicely. Imagine the same kind of idea where I want to simply say I want to take input of anything and try and see how to make sure I get the right kind of thing. I want to make it polymorphic.

对吧，我试着输入浮点数,我能更好的一般化它,想象下类似的想法，我需要输入些什么,然后看看输入的是否正确,我想使他更多元化些。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

All the storytellers must receive training from a SpeakeasyDC teacher to make sure their stories are well developed with interesting details.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

If you want to make sure both conditions are true and they both have to be true for any code to be executed, use ampersand ampersand.

如果你想保证两个条件都成立,或者它们两个都必须为真值，才能执行一些代码，那就使用“&&“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

When crime scene investigators arrive at the place of a crime, they first try to make sure the area is secure.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

So I wanted to make sure you have a complete set for hydrogen in your notes.

我希望你们能确保,你们笔记上氢原子轨道图是完整的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Experts say any device used to heat a home should be inspected to make sure it is working correctly.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

I mean I'm not going to try to trick you or throw in things just to make sure you come to class, but it's usually a pretty good policy.

我不是和你们耍手段,也不是为让你们来上课而随便说说,但这通常是个好方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Also,the break will start to repair itself, so you want to make sure the bone is lined up correctly.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

I took my role to sniff that out, and to make sure the president heard 2 and 4 on an important issue, and was able to make the decision himself.

我的作用就是发现这些，保证总统可以听到2和4这两个观点4,在一些重要问题上，然后他能自己做决定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Others carried out energy studies of city school buildings to make sure the equipment and systems work effectively.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

This led people to go back and look at the places that were manufacturing the vaccine to make sure that they were all producing vaccine of the proper quality.

这现象让人们回溯并且审视,制作疫苗的地方,以确认他们生产的疫苗,质量都合格

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Kahn was very careful to make sure they all received natural light and a view of the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

So you can imagine that adds real excitement and energy to the class and puts a little bit pressure on the professors to make sure that we have something worth coming half way around the world for.

可以想象,为课堂带去的兴奋和活力,也给教授施加了压力，我们要确保,能传授值得绕半个地球赶来学习的知识。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said he was there to make sure the people of the territory obeyed the constitution and the laws of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

So I differentiated this object, this is my first derivative and I set it equal to 0 Now in a second I'm going to work with that, but I want to make sure i'm going to find a maximum and not a minimum, so how do I make sure I'm finding a maximum and not a minimum?

这样我就对它求出导数了,这是一阶导数,令它等于0,一会我们就要计算了,但我先确定一下是最大值还是最小值,我怎么确定是最大值还是最小值呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

You just got to be looking around all the time to make sure you are not going to be run down.

你随时观察四周以确保你不会被撞倒。

伦敦的蓝色自行车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

But there are many, many more websites coming up in different parts of the world They want to make sure that they address English-speaking audiences As well as their own audiences.

但更多的网页建立在,除了美国外的世界各地区,这些网页不仅仅想要,吸引英语语种的浏览者,也想囊括其母语的使用者。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And I want to make sure everybody figured out that it really was an irreversible expansion.

或者多孔塞的,不可逆的等焓过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选