Who knows? Maybe we'll try on some other occasion, but for the moment I think you can see that in making remarks of this kind about a text one has shifted the attention from meaning to structure.

我们也许会在以后讲到它，谁知道呢，但是我想你们应该已经看出来,我们的重点已经从内容,转移到了形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Following a transformation the study of which is not the concern of the social sciences but rather of biology and psychology, a crossing over came about from a stage where nothing had a meaning to another where everything possessed it.

这门学科并不属社会科学的范畴,而是属于生物学，心理学，此种转变是一种跨越，从一个什么都没有意义的时代到,一个每样东西都能表达的时代的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The whole essence of a stock dividend is that they're paying it to every shareholder in the same proportion, so every one hundred shares becomes one hundred and five shares; so you know that that has no meaning to me.

但股票股利的要义就在于,他们给每个股东相同的份额,所以每一百股都变成了一百零五股,这对我来说毫无意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.

其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He wrote a long and detailed history of Britain, attempting to create the meaning of that little island that he always assumed was God's chosen nation.

他写了一部长而具体的英国史，试图论证这座小岛的重大意义,他一直相信英国是上帝所选的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And he took leave of him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

便在那里跟雅各告别，雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说，“我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Be careful, and this is going to be especially complicated and confusing when we get to quantities that have a more obscure meaning like entropy.

大家要小心，如果需要测量的物理量,如熵，没有很明确的意义,那么着可能变得很复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I'll give the word the meaning I intend it to mean.

我说的话就是必须表达我的意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Having a sense of meaning and being able to express through their music.

对意义有所理解,能够通过他们的音乐去表达情感。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Now, egocentrism has a meaning in common English which means to be selfish.

自我中心这个词在如今的日常英语里,是自私的意思

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The one that does is called the sense strand and the other one is called the anti-sense strand, anti meaning it's the compliment and it will hybridize to the sense.

能够进行编码的一条链叫做正义链,另一条则叫做反义链,反义的意思是它与正义链互补,并能够与之杂交

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If I shoot to the left and there's no probability of the goalie diving to the right, which means that they dive to the left, then my payoff is 4, meaning I score 40% of the time.

如果我从左路射门,而门将不会去扑向右路,也就是说他会扑向左路,此时我的收益是4,也就是说我进球的概率是40%

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

in which we suddenly find ourselves, without meaning to and without being simply victims of any sort of cultural tyranny, standing in front of something, clasping our hands, tilting our head and feeling somehow or another different from the way we feel when we typically look at things.

我们会突然发现，自己毫无理由地,不受任何外在因素控制地，站在一样东西面前，拼命地鼓掌，歪着头品味，感觉到此时此刻的感受,与平时不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选