To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think you may have defined it already, but I couldn't find a definition of strictly in the book we have.

我想你之前已经定义过了,但是我在课本里没有找到,“严格”的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That's a new definition of greatness."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

This idea of being minority is a definition that was put on me by my American community.

属于少数群体“这个想法,是我在美国时,的标签。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"It re-defines the definition of a cash payment back to the previous terms of payment after the ship has been loaded;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

I've got a definition of Cartesian point, I've got a definition of polar point.

让我们运行这个程序，来把应用这些定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Plant says this definition, which first appeared in a 1930 ILO Convention Against Forced Labor, is still valid today.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

What kind of a definition of "it" is "It's raining?"

里头的“it“是什么意思呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Applying that definition, I do not think one can consider what happened here a case of genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And there are theories who say that by its definition film is not literary but it's a visual art.

也有理论家认它的定义说明,电影并非文学,而是一种视觉的艺术。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

McChrystal has reportedly requested thousands more troops to help him make Afghanistan a stable, secure country, and eventually able to look after itself, his definition for success there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

You take a material like silver and put it in a glass case and that's the definition of a meter.

你拿某种材料,比如银,把它放进玻璃柜里,那是一米的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Just the first one or more generally the address of the first one and then, man, I'll just figure it out from there where the rest of the letters are because by definition of a string, they're back to back to back.

只需要第一个字节的地址,然后，我可以指出之后的,剩下的字母,因为通过一个字符串的定义，它们是紧邻的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

But I think this definition is also limiting, and this is a phenomenon that I hope you will come to be familiar with.

但我认为这个解释也太局限了，我希望你们能逐渐熟悉这一现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Often what you'll see is not a table based on this definition, but something that's called the Pauling definition of electronegativity, but it's exactly the same idea and the same trend as this more numerical way to think about what the meaning of electronegativity is.

通常你看到的表格一般都不是基于这种定义的，而是基于,鲍林定义的电负性，但在意义上是相同的，并且满足同样的周期性规律,当和这种这种更数值化地理解电负性的定义,作对比时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Well, a fair definition of tickling is touching parts of the body in a mock attack.

胳肢的准确定义就是,打打闹闹时碰身体某个地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Cause and effect below a certain level of definition is blurred.

在某种程度的定义的下的,因果关系是模糊的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Well a natural definition of death might be something like the end of life.

正常的理解是死亡是,生命的终结

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

.. Yes. By Locke's definition, you can say... So maybe by Locke's definition, the Native Americans could have claimed a property right in the land itself.

是的，按照洛克的定义，你可以说。,也许按照洛克的定义，印第安人可以宣称拥有对该土地的财产权。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A fearful alchemy that's a useful definition of slavery.

可怕的炼金术,那是奴隶制的一个有建设性的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

When I call this class definition, it calls init, init and I give it an x and a y value.

我说过，当我们，调用这个类的定义的时候，它会去调用。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's kind of like religion by definition is a communal activity and so as what you're trying to do is a lot of... building skills among groups.

可能宗教本身,就是种集体性的活动，你们所做的,也就是培养集体生活的技能。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So here we have a second definition, a new definition for today, and again we can use our jargon.

这里我们给出第二个定义,也是今天的一个新定义,我们再一次用到术语

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I know you're bugged by my bad humor, but too bad. Maybe you're bugged by this, saying wait a minute, how does this thing stop? This is the kind of definition that your high school geometry teacher would have rapped your knuckles over.

我也知道你可能觉得我的冷笑话很烦，但是很不幸，可能你会觉得这个很烦,你会想等等,这个程序怎么停下来呢？,这就是你们高中几何。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I'm going to give you a glass case and in the glass case is an entity with this as one kilogram, by definition.

我给你一个玻璃箱,箱子里放的东西刚好是 1 千克,这是根据定义的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选