In eighteen ninety-seven,the word came to mean the huge groups of people running or stampeding to Alaska and the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or you could say "I wonder if" and mean that you really do wonder,

或者你可以用“I wonder if”来表达你的确不是很清楚。

I wonder if 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It wants to look at what it means to be Chinese-American today and what it will mean looking forward.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

He kept pointing to the rocket ship and mean monkey kept taking it away.

他不断指向火箭飞船,认为猴子不停地将火箭飞船拿走

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And they say fewer tenure track positions mean fewer people to work with students, create new courses and serve on committees.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

You could say "I wonder if" and mean you don't think.

你可以用“I wonder if”来表达你并不这么认为。

I wonder if 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

These are poems, in other words, that come with little labels to tell you what they mean and what they're about.

这些都是，换句话说,是用小的标记来告诉你,他们是什么意思，他们是关于什么的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And what I mean by GPS is GPS for the masses, although global positioning systems have been around for quite a while."

VOA: special.2010.12.27

And all they mean is those Christians who believe the kinds of stuff that would later be proclaimed as orthodox in creeds and councils.

它的意思是相信那些东西的基督教徒,后来教义和议会,将称他们为东正教徒。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Another reason is that a small change in temperature can mean the difference between snow and rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And I mean, it's probably a lot of this straight-ups are going all over the place in a product.

为此，在开发产品的一系列环节中,将会对产品做出调整。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

For example, large numbers of visitors can mean large numbers of vehiclesthat cause pollution and road damage.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

And all we mean by constructive interference is that literally those two waves add together, such as the maxima are now twice as high, and the minima are now twice as low.

相干相长，相干相长也就是,说两个波加在一起，所以最大值变成2倍那么高，最低值变成2倍那么低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And what does that mean? It means I am trained in geology, but with interests in the other planets and Mars in particular."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And by that, I mean, not how much memory do I need to store the size of the input, it's really how much internal memory do I use up as I go through the computation?

需要占用多少内存,我意思并不是，存储输入需要多少内存,而是当我完成这个？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Word expert James Rogers says the word "it" in the saying can mean any and all difficulties.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

Two will mean it's good but you could have done a little better, and one would mean you need to shape it up.

二分意味着你做的不错但是还可以更好些,一分则代表你需要对它做些改进

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But insurance companies and conservatives in Congress say the so-called public option would mean unfair competition.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

and specifically what I mean is we can ask questions like what the neuro substrates support desire?

而且特别值得一提的是，我们可以问以下问题,哪些神经物质让人产生欲望？

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Larger schools also have more money, which can mean more resources for education, recreation and research.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

And, I mean, I wouldn't just give it to him because he wrote a sonnet.

我不会只把周期表和十四行诗对应,因为他写的是十四行诗。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They say the word "trick" can mean a shortened and effective way to express complex findings.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

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

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In fact, I have it--suppose we have three assets and we want to compute the efficient portfolio frontier, the mean and variance of the portfolio.

事实上，假如我们拥有三种资产,我们想计算有效边界，及投资组合的均值和方差。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Yet treatments and population growth mean that more people than ever are living with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

It is the only form of knowledge free from the fallacy of unmediated expression--in other words, free from the fallacy that when I say "It is raining," I mean I'm a meteorologist and I mean it is raining.

它是唯一能免于未适当表达的谬误的一种知识形式,换句话说，免于一种谬误，比如，当我说“天在下雨“时“,我的意思是，我是一个气象学家，并且我的意思是天在下雨。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now, and by reform I mean a period in which people became professional reformers.

我的意思是一段时间中,人们都成了专业的改革者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选