That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Cordesman points out that Iran's constitution, if followed properly, provides a means of change and reform, if indeed parties are willing to work within its structure.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He thinks the North intentionally flooded the South as a means of forcing diplomacy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In my view Iran's nuclear program is a means to an end.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

What is the heart but a spring, ?" or reason but a means of calculating pleasures and pains."

除了跳动，心脏又为何物，除了感觉愉快和痛苦，人为什么而活“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And rural agri-businesses can mean a pathway out of poverty, There has been much controversy and opposition over the use of genetically modified crops as a means of boosting productivity.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

And, in fact there's a technique of analysis used today that's called Rutherford back scattering where people actually saw that this is a means of identifying the substance, the sample.

事实上这是现在用的一种分析技术,称作卢瑟福背散射,就是人们实际上看到的那样,这是鉴别物质样品的一种方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We need to do more about jobs in this country, more to protect people's homes in this country and this demonstration is a means of bringing it to the government's attention,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Now, in contrast to the land, God's sanctuary can be purified for moral impurity by means of a special sacrifice.

与土地对比，上帝的圣所倒是可以通过一些特殊的献祭,净化道德上的不洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Obama administration,he added, must make clear that it does not view engagement with Iran as a process without an end, but as a means to identify ends that would benefit both countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

How do we know that they are not going to keep it all?" The United States and allies France and Russia have supported the IAEA draft deal with Iran as a means to alleviate concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear program to develop atomic weapons covertly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

So when we talk about a cohort study, this means taking a group of people and following them over time.

所以当我们提到定群研究,就意味着,有一群人参加实验并需一直追踪下去

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

The term means it was a sixty-day Treasury bill; that means it pays not $100, it would start at $10,000.

期限表示这是六十天期国库券,票面不是100美元,而至少一万美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Suspending habeas corpus means that a prisoner can be held without trial for as long as the government wants.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

So, similarly in a case where instead we have a small energy difference, we're going to have a low frequency, which means that we're going to have a long wavelength here.

在这个例子里,能量差较小,我们得到的频率低,这意味这它的波长更长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That means that a person can rise from poverty to wealth and success if he or she works hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

The reason for inexact doesn't mean it's a crummy measurement, t means that it's path dependent, and so the value of this integral depends on how you get from one to two.

这是因为它是,与积分路径有关的，因此这里的积分值，取决于从一端到二端的,具体路径。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It means a person who starts and operates a new business and has responsibility for any risks involved.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The beauty of that is now we have discovered a notion of what it means to multiply a vector by a number.

现在最美妙的就是我们就已经知道,数字乘以矢量的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"In a case where we do not have a lot of rainfall, it means we are going to lose all the crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

And we'll see what that means in a moment, and it's just because they mean different things.

等下我们会明白它的意思，这只是,因为他们有着不同的含义。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This means a place that is fun and not serious, and maybe even out of touch with reality.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

And use a whole array of means: diplomacy, alliances letting other countries do things instead of us.

我们可以通过很多方式解决问题：,建立外交关系，建立联盟,让别的国家也参与,而并非事事亲力亲为。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And those words mean different things: immunogenic means that it stimulates your immune system for a response; pathogenic means that it causes a disease.

这两个词有不同的意义,免疫效应是指,刺激免疫系统产生免疫应答,致病性意指它能使你患病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选