Yet these meanings are old, and their history is not known.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

What Frost gives you here and elsewhere is a poetry that leaves its meanings to make, all the time.

弗罗斯特在这儿留给你们的是一首,留下意味深长的语境的诗歌，需要不断地钻研。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The "I'm sorry" pattern is a great pattern. And it has at least three separate meanings.

I'm sorry”句型是一个很棒的句型，它至少有三种不同的意思。

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And their original meanings are long since forgotten.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

It's just that other meanings are available, and since they're not on the same page, those two other meanings coexist painfully and irreducibly at odds, right?

它只是说其它意思也有可能，由于它们不是在同一水平线上，这两种其它意思,痛苦地共存着，同时又不可削减地矛盾着，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"but they hold very important emotional and,in some cases, spiritual meanings for whole nations of people."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

And there's a huge critical industry around Flannery O'Connor, and at the core of it is a body of criticism that finds and articulates and explains the religious meanings of her texts.

奥康纳的周围是个庞大的评论圈，其核心是对她文中的,宗教意义的,发现、表达和阐释。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To appreciate has two meanings as we talked about: one is to say "thank you" for something and two is to grow.

欣赏有两个意思：,一是懂得感谢，二是传递。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That's one of its meanings and I think it's the meaning that's relevant here.

这是它的一种释义,我认为这个释义在这里是恰当的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Milton was always wrestling with the problem of vocation in all of its meanings, and the problem of what a calling actually is and how one actually knows one has a calling is a problem that pulsates somewhere beneath most of the lines of poetry that Milton writes.

弥尔顿经常纠结于这两个,含义，以及到底什么是神的招唤,还有人们是怎么知道他被召唤了,这些问题反复出现在,弥尔顿的诗句中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Feet, of course, has a lot of meanings, and Milton's poetic feet, the material of the verse written in six and eight and ten syllables in this poem, are also in 1634 printless -- they're unpublished.

双脚，当然有很多意义，而弥尔顿富有诗意的双脚,这首六，八，十音节的诗，在1634年也是不留痕迹的--因为那时候还没有出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, look at this footnote: And the history of words after a poem is written may contribute meanings which if relevant to the original pattern should not be ruled out by a scruple about intention.

那么我们就来看一下这条脚注：,在诗产生后，语言的意思也就跟着产生了,这种意思如果和原始的形式不同,就不该有对作者意图的顾虑。

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