That was a Mormon word meaning honeybee.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Episcopalians call the Communion, when they take it on Sunday,"the Eucharist," which is just from the Greek word meaning "thanks."

主教派称之为“共享“,在礼拜日食用时，就叫“圣餐“,正是希腊语中“感谢“的意思“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

By the same token, what Iser is saying is that the space of meaning is "virtual" -this is the word he uses.

同样地，伊瑟尔说,含义所在的空间是“虚拟的“,他用的就是这个词。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They all want to know about its unusual name. Okefenokee is a Miccosukee Indian word meaning land of trembling earth.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so we can thank the American buffalo that once wondered the open plains for this meaning of the word buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.

现在，这个希伯来词语“神圣“，根源的意思是独立。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

We're going to use this special word "Antigen," and antigen has a very particular meaning.

我们将用到抗原这个特别的词,抗原有其独特意义

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The name of this festival was inspired by the meaning of the word "Arabesque."

VOA: special.2009.03.11

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

Fire buffs are still around, but the word has taken on a wider meaning.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

It's just a trivial grammatical point about the meaning of the word my.

只是“我的“这个词的琐碎语法点而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But a much older meaning of the word farm is linked to economics.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

There is written on the turrets of the city of Lucca in great characters, meaning great letters, that this day the word libertas, libertas is written on the walls of the turrets of the city of Lucca."

卢卡市的塔楼上刻有霍布斯那句话,而且用的是很大很显眼的字，也就是很大的字母,古罗马语中的自由二字,也被刻在了这座塔上“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The word "corporation" comes from the latin corpus meaning body, so it's an embodiment.

公司"这个词来自于拉丁文corpus,意思是身体,所以法人是种化身

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The word "Keys" comes from the Spanish word "cayos" meaning "little island."

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Most editors of Milton tell us that the word prevent in this line retains its original Latin meaning as you can see on your handout.

大多数编者告诉我这一行的阻止一词,保留了拉丁文的原意，你们可以在讲义里看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Many word experts say the new meaning came from United States Navy.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Surely this word prevent also has a little bit of its modern meaning.

阻止这个词很显然也有一点现代的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In recent years, the word pan has taken on another meaning.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Now this is what Derrida is deliberately struggling with in this first paragraph: an "event" , if this loaded word did not entail a meaning thought to reduce or to suspect.

这就是德里达,在第一段着力解决的问题：,一个事件，加引号的，…,如果这个词的意思没有,减少或怀疑的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

John Carter,I think I understand the meaning of the word "friend."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

This meaning of the word is known to be American.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

He added the Latin word "vita," meaning life.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

She's also seen an increase in incorrect word use, with students reaching for a word that sounds correct, whose proper meaning is just a bit off from what they intend to say.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16