The Taliban, once thought of as a defeated entity, has re-emerged as a full-blown insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

That people would disappear as a distinctive entity, and in effect, that is what happened to the ten tribes of the northern kingdom to a large degree.

原本独特的性质逐渐消失，实际上，从很大程度上看,这就是北边十部落消失的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So we consider a text as a structured entity, or perhaps as an entity which is structured and yet at the same time that's the case with Roland Barthes.

所以，我们把原文视为一个结构上的实体，或者是作为一个,有结构上的实体同时,这就是罗兰，巴特的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm going to give you a glass case and in the glass case is an entity with this as one kilogram, by definition.

我给你一个玻璃箱,箱子里放的东西刚好是 1 千克,这是根据定义的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Well you know what a point is, it's got an x- and a y- coordinate, it's natural to think about those two things as belonging as a single entity.

把这两个坐标认为，是属于一个独立的实体，是理所当然的事情,因此实现这个目的的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In a for-profit corporation, the purpose of the entity is defined as profit for the shareholders.

在一家盈利性公司中,公司的目的是为股东谋求利益

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Behaviorism looks at the human entity, at the person as basically a collection of behaviors as a box, like a billiard ball knocked around by reinforcements, by punishment, by reward.

行为主义认为人的主体性，认为人是一个行为集合，就像一只被击打而四处滚动的台球，被增强，奖惩驱动。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

What we're really getting at is the idea of saying I want to have a way of grouping together information into units that make sense. So I can go back to one of those topics we had at the beginning, which is the idea of abstraction, that I can create one of those units as a simple entity, bury away the details and write really modular code.

组合成为有意义的单元,那么这就让我们回到,一开始讲的话题之一了,这就是抽象的概念,也就是我可以以一个简单的，实体的形式创建这样的一个单元，把具体实现隐藏然后写一些,真正模块化的代码,我们在以后的课程中。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选