They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

That is to say, it is not a system of signs understood as stable relationships between a concept world and a world of signifying.

也就是说，它不是一个符号系统，这个符号系统被理解为,概念世界和指示世界间的稳定的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

How does a system of getting into grad school work?

研究生入学体系是什么样的？

要考入大学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Google has invested in a new company that wants to put up a system of satellites over Africa.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Democracy, in final analysis,is a system of governance based not only in trust but also distrust.

归根结底，民主就是治理体系,不仅基于信任，也以不信任为基础。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

A system of waterways designed after the Italian city of Venice has been built there.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

We can't just smash things and start all over, we have to design a system of risk management.

而不是简单地打破一切再重新来过，我们应当设计一个好的风险管理体系。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So they built a system of canals to bring water down from the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Now language is a system of signs.

语言是符号的组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He wanted to build a system of trade that connected people throughout the country.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The pagan cult, Kaufman claims, is a system of rites.

考夫曼认为，异教祭仪，是一个仪式系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We are running a system of separation of powers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Air traffic used to be everything flew to places local to it but now there's a system of hubs, Chicago O'Hare for instance or Newark where planes fly through.

以前的飞机都是飞往它的所属地,但现在的航空运输是一个由交通枢纽组成的系统，例如飞机会途经芝加哥O'Hare机场或Newark机场。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We are working to establish a network and a system of protection of children and also to try to report cases of abuse and exploitation and try to save these children, put them in transit centers, try to recontact the family, and put them back with the family or with the extend family when the parents are not there or are not suitable to take care of the children,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

And Pauli says no two electrons in a given system can have the entire set of quantum numbers identical.

而泡利认为在一个给定的系统内,没有两个电子有完全相同的量子数。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.

在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Mars Day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington is a celebration of our solar system's most famous planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

This is commonly used in the immune system as well, but it's a way of amplifying a signal.

免疫系统也常使用这种方法,但这主要是一种放大信号的方式

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

A patterned series of these tiny charged berries on the disk represents a single bit of data in the binary number system used by computers.

这些在磁盘上的有序的小粒子,代表这个当代计算机中,二进制中单独的一位。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So a closed system would be, for instance, a glass of ice water with an ice cube in it, with the lid on top.

因此闭系可以是，比如说，一杯放了,一个冰块的冰水，顶上加了盖子。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But with threats, a language barrier and fear of the legal system, victims are often unwilling or unable to seek help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

So, we have a problem here if we're thinking about keeping things at the lowest energy, so there's a lot of ring strain in the system.

现在有个问题,我们考虑要把能量降到最低，所以环上有许多应力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

They can buy into it if they buy into a $15,000 point-of-sales system.

他们可以买入这些数据0,比如价值15000美元的销售网点系统。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

It's a list of what you have to know about a system right now.

它包含系统当前的全部必要信息

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选