This is the sound of a traditional jazz chord progression: But Miles Davis designed the music on "Kind of Blue" around a modal form.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

and I thought that "Inception" was really interesting in the way they kind of put that physically into a movie form

我觉得“盗梦”真的很有趣，他们把它放在了一部实实在在的电影形式里，

对于未来的技术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Usually it was a dystopian message in the form of some kind of warning;

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

But my teaching at a certain form of ministering therefore is a kind of vocation, a kind of calling.

但是教书由于在某种程度上为人服务,所以可以称作一种职业，一种召唤。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Many consider it a mystical form of Islam. "It's kind of the interior illumination of the practices of Islam, which bring out the best in it.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

That is to say, how do we form the conclusion that we are interpreting something adequately, that we have a basis for the kind of reading that we're doing?

也就是说,当说到我们能够解读某个事物，或对正在进行的阅读有一定基础，我们是如何得出上述结论的？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So Leviticus supports outright charity for the poor in the form of gleanings. Kind of a welfare system. Deuteronomy has more of a workfare system in mind; they actually never mention the poor.

所以，《利未记》支持以拾遗的方式直接对穷人,进行施舍，有几分像福利制度，《申命记》考虑更多的,则是工作福利制度，事实上它从未提及穷人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Although Hobbes is widely taken to be a defender of monarchical absolutism, you will note, in your readings, that he displays a kind of studied neutrality over actually what form the sovereign should take.

尽管霍布斯被广泛地认为是,君主专制主义的维护者，但在阅读中你们会发现，他对国家应当采用何种政体,是保持中立姿态的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You have to form some kind of balance in your life and not let anyone demand a hundred hours a week of your time If they do, you should sell the stock they give as soon as you can and diversify.

你必须形成一个平衡在你的生命中,不能使任何人让你,一周工作一百个小时,如果他们这么要求了，你应该以最快的速度,把他们给你的股票卖掉然后转业。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These are setups of pieces on the chess board that have particular solutions. And they're very complex, and they have a kind of aesthetic form to them.

象棋有些设置是有专门的,解决方法的，很复杂，它们有一种美学在里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Spirit is merely a kind of bodily form of energy, and God at the beginning of time infused this energy into the entirety of the material world at the Creation.

灵魂不过是能量的一种物质形式，上帝在时间之始创世纪之际将这能量,注入到了整个物质世界之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Whatever form the best regime takes however it will always favor a certain kind of human being with a certain set of character traits.

然而，无论最优的政体是采取那种型式,它都将会永远偏袒某一群人,且会有一些特定的性格特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Together, these figures form a kind of microcosm of humanity.

组在一起，这些角色,形成人性的小宇宙。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

These beliefs form something like a kind of national creed you might say American national creed what it means to be an American and not someone else.

这些信念形成类似,国家纲领的东西，你可以说,像是美国的国家纲领,这意味着身为美国人，而不是其它国人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选