"Malawi is a landlocked state, it is one of the ones that we tend to worry most about, and yet it has demonstrated that when you focus attention on a problem you can make progress."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Would it focus your attention on making sure you did the things ? that were most important to you?

你会不会把注意力都放在保证自己,做的都是对自己来说最重要的事情？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We can start now to focus our attention on the real cause or causes of autism.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

At the same time, as I empty myself of a lot of my own focus on myself, it allows me to hear and pay attention to all the things that are around you.

我对自己做了清理,减少了自己的重视，这使得我能够注意到,身边的一些事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Mr.Obama used his weekly address to re-focus attention on his budget plan and get it through Congress, after a week dominated by outrage over huge bonuses paid at companies that are being bailed out by the government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

And I'm going to focus my attention on what you might call the political side of that society as it reveals itself in the poems.

现在我要重点阐述可能被你们称作,社会的政治层面的史诗内容

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选