It's really, in a sense, the physical image is of rain; it's raining, so it's leaking all over it.

这在某种意义上确实是，下雨的一种具体的描述;,因为在下雨，所以天空像是在漏水。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We could use the name of a genre, and I'll be talking a lot about genre in this course.

我们可以用某种音乐风格描述它,本课程中,我将会谈到很多音乐风格

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

God can impart holiness to, he can sanctify, persons and places and things when they're brought into a specific kind of relationship with him, a relationship that's best described as a relationship of ownership.

上帝可以将神圣给予一些人、地方，和事物,如果它们能够和上帝产生某种特殊的联系，对这个关系的最好描述就是从属关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Freud's sort of vague about this, but you know, you seek some sort of satisfaction.

弗洛伊德对此描述的有些模糊，但其实你是在寻求某种满足。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Pseudo code. Now, you're all linguistic majors, pseudo means false, this sounds like code that ain't going to run, and that's not the intent of the term. When I say pseudo code, what I mean is, I'm going to write a description of the steps, but not in a particular programming language.

伪代码，基于你们都是学语言的，伪代码意味着不正确,这听起来就像是没法运行的代码,这可不是我们学这个的目的，当我说到伪代码的时候,我的意思是要对步骤进行一个描述,而不是某种特定的编程语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There seems to be at least built in to Aristotle's account of politics a certain flexibility a certain latitude of discretion that in some passages even seems to border on a kind of relativism.

那看似建入于,亚里士多德对政治的描述,某种弹性，某种恣意的判断力,在有些段落甚至,看起来近似一种相对论。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选