"After many years of trying to figure out what is going on with the genetic cause of depression, we're still not there yet."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Also trying to raise awareness within the community that there are people on the other side we can approach.

并且在你所处的群体提高人们的意识,了解另一端世界的人们是可以接触的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Our brain is really good at kind of absorbing music and lyrics and so if you're trying to focus on that,

我们的大脑真的很擅长于理解音乐和歌词，所以如果你试着把注意力集中到那个上面，

英语学习技巧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The group was accused of trying to gain information on American nuclear weapons, foreign policy and politics for the SVR -- Russia's foreign intelligence service.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

So this is a place where the amortized cost actually helps me out. And as the gentleman at the back said, the question he asked is right, it depends on what I'm trying to do.

开始起了作用,我们要分析的话,我要想一想我在做什么，我抓住了每一点么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

People are trying to find simple ways to decrease their effect on the planet.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Everybody and his pet dog is trying to get a seat on a plane out of Logan airport.

每个人和他们的宠物狗,都想获得罗根机场的飞机上的座位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Or,a company that makes soap is trying to sell its product on television.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Yeah and how is that any different from people on a corner trying, with the same desire to feed their family.

但这跟绝境中铤而走险的人，有何不同,那些人同样是为了养家糊口。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The book industry is trying to get a good read on its future.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

So although I'm trying to sketch the dualist position, as I explained on Tuesday, I don't myself believe in souls.

尽管我在尝试去概述,二元论的观点,就像我在周二所说的,我自己并不相信灵魂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"But most of the people on Twitter that I see are actually trying to have a substantive discussion a real conversation about topics that are interesting to them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

It implies that this algorithm is calling itself again and again, and again, and on each time the size of the problem I'm trying to sort is being divided by what?

这就说明此算法会一次又一次地调用自己,每次我要排序的问题规模大小,会除以多少呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I am not trying to pull a fast one on you.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

And I was trying to make a final call on the summer job and Bill called and said "Hey look Steve. Geez, how are you doing? Gosh, things get complicated here we need a business person. What about you?"

那时我正试图把暑假打工的事,一锤定音，比尔打电话给我，说,“嘿史蒂夫，最近怎么样？,天呐我们这儿越来越复杂了，需要个,搞商的人，你来怎么样？“

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Shielding is the term that's used, it brings up a certain image in our mind, and even though that's not precisely what's going on, it's a very good way to visualize what we're trying to think about here.

它带给我们一个确定的画面，虽然那不够精确，但当我们尝试去考虑它的时候,它确实是一种很好,的形象化的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What we're trying to do here is to change the system in the United States from one that is based on the time that is spent in the seat to one that is based on your actual accomplishments."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

So he has been working on trying to find other tools of monetary policy.

所以，他一直在寻求找到,货币政策的其他工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But I have been trying to keep abreast of what is going on and I will do the best I can."

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

If you go there on the third floor of Sloane, you may run into other people like you who are trying to work on problems.

当你到了斯隆实验室的三楼,你可能会碰上其他,和你一样正在解决难题的同学们

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Jaroslaw Kaczynski has been trying to convince voters that, as president, he would carry on his late brother's legacy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

And what I was trying to persuade her in this meeting was to take me on as one of her students, to let--to be my adviser.

谈话中，我试图说服她,接受我这个学生，做我的指导老师。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Whatever they can get on they should put on." "That is what we are trying to save right there,wildlife.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They are trying all their best. They are exacting all their efforts in order to achieve something on the ground."

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

There was a large flatbed truck out there and there were these people on this truck getting you-- trying to sell you audio equipment, and they had a big banner up there.

那儿有一个大平板卡车,有一群人在车上,正试图向你推销音响,他们还有个巨大的横幅

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"I support the Tea Party and the program they have, and what they are trying to pass on to the people."

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You figure that most of those boxes are being eaten by somebody or another, there's some waste that you might calculate in, but there--error gets introduced there trying to estimate that, so you get a number on that.

你的计算中大部分食品,都被人们吃了,浪费的那些也要计算进来,但其中的误差,也要估算出来,最后得出一个数字

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选