But as he says, the search for life in outer space is a long-term goal, and he is still hopeful.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We might have a term for this sort of thing--possession.

对于这种现象我们有个名词，夺舍。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics, from the Latin term for a public forum.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

There's a term for that--they call it going ex-dividend.

有一个专门的术语,叫做"除息"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

But ekklesia is a term for the church.

但是Ekklesia是教会术语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

But this is where for lack of a better term non-western countries really formally challenged at the highest levels and the lowest, too.

之所以这么说，是因为找不到更好的表达方式了,这表明非西方国家,从最高层面和最低层面都提出了挑战。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The I.C.C.review conference took place even as the president was just sworn in for a new term.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

If things didn't work out long term, they still have a spot for me I think if I want to go back and finish my MBA it's just not that high risk when you get right down to it.

如果长期下来不行的话，他们仍然偏爱我的话，我想我可以,回来读完工管硕士，实际去做的话困难并不大。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

On Tuesday,President Obama nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

So this is going to be a guide for us for essentially all that we're going to do in the rest of the term.

这些计算本质上指导着我们,这学期余下的课程中所需要做的一切。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

As expected, the radicals who controlled the main Republican Party nominated Grant for a second term.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Today the term "political science" stands for one among a number of different disciplines that we call collectively the social sciences.

今日，政治科学“一词“,意指独立的学科,是我们集中称之为,社会科学的多种学科之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says the final goal of the work is to develop a long-term plan to operate and protect the tomb for years to come.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

How many of you have heard the term used before? How may have you heard the term used before in terms of programming languages? Great. For the rest you, don't sweat it. This is a highfalutin term that computer scientists use to try and make them look like they're smarter than they really are.

这里就要引入递归的概念了,你们中有多少人以前听过这个词？,你们中有多少人在编程语言中,用过这个词？,很好，剩下的同学也不要担心,这是电脑科学家们用来让自己,显得更聪明的夸张词汇。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But hog is a term commonly used for any swine, especially a domesticated adult pig.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

And when Locke speaks about the right to property, he often uses that as a kind of global term for the whole category, the right to life, liberty, and property.

洛克所说的所有权，通常概括了所有的自然权利，即生命，自由和财产权。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

On March fourth,eighteen sixty-five, Abraham Lincoln was sworn-in as president for a second term.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

If you want a more technical term for that , and you'll remember this from economics 115 can lead to outcomes that are "Inefficient," that are "Pareto inefficient," But "Suck" Will do for today.

要是想说的更专业店,记不记得在经济学115里面说的,会导致“不充分的”结果,即"帕雷托效率",但我们今天说"糟糕"就可以了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Her father was a well-known lawyer who was elected to Congress for one term.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

They're used by the body for pretty immediate energy where fat is a little bit more long-term energy, and there are many types of sugars-- and these are things that you've heard-- glucose and sucrose being the most common things that you can consume in ordinary foods, and then lactose of course, from milk.

碳水化合物被身体当做是直接能源,而脂肪则更像是一种长期能量,糖的种类有很多,这些类型你们已经听说过,葡萄糖和蔗糖是最常见的形态,你们可以在一般的食物中获取,乳糖,显然来自于乳类

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 name comes from Spanish and,before that,from a Latin term for a small horse.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

This e term here is the energy, or in our case when we talk about an electron in a hydrogen atom, for example, the binding energy of that electron to the nucleus.

这里的“E“是指能量，或者在我们谈论一个,氢原子的电子时，举例来说，是电子对于原子核的结合能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some schools expel plagiarists for a term; others, for a full academic year.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And you'll find too because of J term this year or winter break where you guys can finally come back onto campus a bit early for various opportunities.

你还会发现由于今年的J学期或寒假,大家可以早点返回校园,这会带来各种机会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

RealtyTrac is a company that counts foreclosures, the legal term for bank repossessions.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

It doesn't mean that they grew up south of the Mason-Dixon Line or wave a certain kind of flag or--but the older term for it was "stooge."

那不意味着,他们成长于梅森—狄克森线以南,挥动某种旗帜,或者-但是更广泛是“stooge“表示助手“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So wherever you see '"LORD" in small caps, that's actually the English translation for Yahweh, the proper name, like almost a personal name for God. And then in other places we have this word Elohim, which actually is the word for "gods," a sort of generic term for deities in the plural.

所以你们看到小写的时,其实是耶和华的英文翻译，正确的名字,像是上帝个人的名字,有时候我们用，Elohim一词，这是对,神一词的复数形式的翻译。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选