If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Now, of course, Freud himself thought he was a scientist, and his reading of the myth was also supposed to be scientific.

当然，弗洛伊德也觉得自己是个科学家，也觉得自己对这神话的解读是科学的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yes, my uncle's girlfriend was supposed to get me a job there and never did.

是的，我叔叔的女朋友本该给我在那儿找份工作的，但是她从未兑现承诺。

这里的快乐时光 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I was supposed to attend a summer writing program for high school students at the university.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

And the experiment was supposed to go on for two weeks to show what entering a role does.

这项实验预计进行两周,证明进入角色的效果。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A hospital was not supposed to require more than eighty hours of duty in a week.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.

新批评派，无可厚非，创造了一种很好的风气，大家似乎都能欣然接受,那些看起来还比较复杂的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He was supposed to guard the president, not play a game.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

That was supposed to be a tragedy that, in some manuscript drafts that we still have today -- in some manuscript drafts, he titled this prospective tragedy Paradise Lost and in other drafts Adam Unparadised.

他打算写一部悲剧，在一些目前还存留的草稿中,我们看到弥尔顿将这部要写的悲剧命名为,《失乐园》，在另外一些草稿中又叫做《亚当失乐园》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Environmentalist Gidon Bromberg says a joint Israeli-Palestinian water commission that was supposed to address water issues has not been doing its job.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

You found, I don't remember his stagefright Well, I think there was one moment in his scene like he's standing in front of a crowd, it is supposed to be on a ship, I think.

我不记得他怯场,我想在他镜头中有一次,好想他站在一群人当中，我觉得应该是在一艘船上。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

His family was in Pakistan for a wedding two weeks ago. They were supposed to leave Sunday, but were unable due to flight delays.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

But he got set up by somebody, by a French person--more about this in a minute, and he was supposed to meet somebody on a bridge overlooking the Saone River Lyon was at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone.

但他被人设计了,被一个法国人--马上再说这个,他本来要和一个人在桥上见面,桥横跨在索恩河上,里昂在罗讷河和索恩河的交汇处

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And his answer was, "Well, when my father sent me here, he told me a number of things that I'm supposed to do, but the most important of these was the Greek words, aien aristeioi, always be the Best.

他的回答是,"当我父亲把我送到这里时,他对我说了,我该做到的几件事,而其中最重要的就是,用古希腊语说"aien aristeioi",事事为先

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选