But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

STUDENT: PROFESSOR: There's a value here, what's this value?

学生：听不见：,教授：这里有一个值，它的值是多少呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The study shows the value in testing and treating HIV before a person even feels sick enough to see a doctor.

VOA: special.2011.05.18

So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

BP's market value fell more than sixty billion dollars as its share price fell by as much as a third.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

OK, so, the thing about a state function is that the function has a value for initial conditions and at final conditions.

态函数的特点是,在初始状态有一个值,在末状态也有一个值。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The value of stock for the Montgomery Ward store dropped from eighty-three dollars to fifty in a single day.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

If you've read through that material and you should have read through it by now you know that we have a value in music.

如果你通读这个材料,现在你应该也已经通读过了这一部分,你应该知道我们的音乐中有一种音符值

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Doctor Ruhli presented his case for the value of mummies for medical research at a meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

And what it involves is placing a value, usually a dollar value, to stand for utility on the costs and the benefits of various proposals.

其做法包括，作出估价，通常是估计出金额，来代表功利,即分别列出成本，和各项收益的金额。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They understand that they are getting value for their money: A cow is worth nearly twice as much if it is vaccinated.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

My graduate student came back and said, it seems to have been Sir John Hicks in London in his 1931--1939 book, A Value in Capital.

我的助研说,约翰·理查德·希克斯勋爵,1904-1989,英国经济学家1972年与肯尼斯·阿罗一同获得诺贝尔经济学奖,在1939年所写的《资产价值》

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But less trust in the euro has reduced its value to the lowest levels in over a year.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

I think there's a value in taking the time out.

很有必要抽出一点时间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

After a number of experimental geodesic domes were built, industry began to understand the value of the design.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

And so, rewarding children has a danger, which is if you give them too much reward and too much a value for what they're doing they will denigrate the activity.

所以奖励孩子是有隐患的，如果你给他们太多奖励,赋予他们的活动太多价值,他们就会贬低这个活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In a pawn transaction, the customer gets a short-term loan of about fifty to seventy-five percent of the value of an item.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

We'll introduce in the next course angular nodes, but today we're just going to be talking about radial nodes, psi and a radial node is a value for r at which psi, and therefore, 0 also the probability psi squared is going to be equal to zero.

将会介绍角节点,但我们今天讲的是，径向节点，径向节点就是指，对于某个r的值,当然，也包括psi的平方，等于,当我们说到s轨道时。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ron Rivera,a ceramics artist and activist in the group Potters for Peace, saw it and recognized its value.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

As we increase the voltage, we get to a critical value at which it is possible to actually draw electrons across the gap.

当我们增加气压时，我们得到了一个临界值，在这个临界值上,将电子吸引过来是完全有可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

We're not interested in establishing a principle of value that shapes a canon.

我们对于建立起一个,用来确定标准的评价原则并不感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Professor Hess says a major value of sustainable agriculture is making good use of what you have.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Professor John Rogers: For a vast number of complicated reasons, Milton has invited for 350 years now a uniquely violent and I do think it's a violent response to the particular question of his value as a poet.

约翰·罗杰斯教授：350年来，由于很多复杂原因，对于米尔顿作为一个诗人到底有何巨大意义,人们的反应一直都很激烈,我确实认为是很激烈的反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

On Friday the House of Representatives passed a resolution expressing support for all Iranians who value freedom, human rights and the rule of law.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

But then I also talk about tolerance, which was a critical value for us becoming a nation with all the different religious groups learning how to live together.

但是我还想谈谈宽容，这一点对我们至关重要,有助于各个不同宗教信仰团体紧密团结,学会共同生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I did not make a killing in the stock market when my stocks increased in value.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Life for Hobbes is competition or struggle not just over scarce resources, although that might be part of the struggle, but for honors, for anything else that a person might value or esteem.

对霍布斯来说，生活是一次竞争或斗争,不是争夺稀缺的资源,虽然这也可能是斗争的一部分，而是为荣誉，为一个人的,价值和自尊而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.

十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选