One of them, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, made clear that doing nothing is not an option.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

He seems to have been doing nothing but reading, acquiring more knowledge and really essentially just learning for the sake of learning.

他好像除了读书，掌握更多的知识以及,单纯学习之外什么也不做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Nothing wrong with doing things by yourself.

一个人做事情没什么错。

来西部的原因 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Johnson concludes that farmers can handle the costs of capping greenhouse gases, especially because the costs of doing nothing could be far worse.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It's very clear you don't need a force if something is doing nothing, just sitting there.

显而易见,如果物体没有运动,只是静止状态,那是不需要力的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"And the message to every country, I think,is that doing nothing is no longer an option."

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

We spent an entire day doing nothing but bowing and doing honor.

我们一整天都在鞠躬和向他人表示尊敬

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Treasury Secretary Geithner alluded to that possibility, saying his plan attempts to steer a path between doing nothing and having the government take over the banks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

So I wrote my dissertation on Byron as a result of that-- nothing complicated, no deep reason for doing these things.

所以我论文写的就是关于拜伦的-,没有太多的考虑，就是因为我喜欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The costs of doing nothing are trillions of dollars in costs over the next couple of decades, not billions, but trillions in costs without anybody getting better care,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This Israeli government is doing nothing. Look on the ground: we have recognized the State of Israel's right to live in peace and security, next to the state of Palestine.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Now, of course, that's a bit of a cheat because the claim isn't to spend eternity doing math problems and nothing but math problems.

当然这有欺人之嫌,因为并非要求永远解决数学问题,其他什么都不做。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"But the cost of doing nothing is potentially far greater.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

But what I'm doing, it's just math, there's nothing interesting going on.

刚才的只不过是无聊的数学运算

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But doing nothing is not only the worse thing we can do for the economy and the worst thing we can do for health care, it is the worst thing we can do for the Democrats and don't you think the Republicans do not know it,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

If you pay me ten thousand dollars a month to work for you, I'll work for you and I'll think "I'm doing it for ten thousand dollars a month, that makes a lot of sense," but if I do it for nothing then I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing it?"

如果你一个月给我一万美元帮你工作，我会为你工作，但我会想,”我是为了一万美元才做的，这样更合理“,但如果我一点报酬都没有，那我就会问我自己，”我为什么要做这份工作？”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There was nothing that could stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

All I'm doing here, nothing particularly exciting, I'm simply plugging this expression in for P and then I multiplied the whole thing out because it was all multiplied by q.

这些计算过程确实很枯燥,我只是把这个算式代入到P中,然后打开整理,因为每一项都乘以了q

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选