Because it's another thing that sounds like on the surface is a great idea."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

We've had a great deal to do with it, but of course we still haven't the slightest idea what it is.

我们花了很大的功夫来接解决这个问题，但我们仍然一点都不知道语言是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Obviously the algorithm is likely to depend on the size of the input, so this is not a great idea.

很明显这个算法是与我的,输入的大小相关的，因此这不是个好方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Another man at the party said such a trip would be a great idea.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The idea was to design great places to live.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

That's a great idea except for the fact that you just wrecked the philosophical point.

想法不错,只不过,你避开了我们今天要谈论的哲学问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"So the idea was to recognize these great inventors, hold them up as role models for young people, and help young people see that aspiring to be an inventor is a great thing."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选