"I mean it's hard to even understand how biology was a science as we would recognize it today.

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It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I mean, as an example, I am a musician, but I go to Borders and Barnes & Noble to hear...

我的意思是，例如，我是一个音乐家，但我去博德斯书店和巴恩斯诺贝尔书店去听……

想学音乐吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But it's absolutely essential--so the shares only mean something as a relation to their total number of shares.

这是十分必要的,所有股票只有在,和总体股本数量联系起来看时才有意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's important... I think this is the crucial point... that when we say a person is just a body, we don't understand that to mean... the physicalist doesn't mean that as-- a person is just any old body.

有个重要的一点...,我觉得这是最关键的一点,就是当我们说人只是个肉体时,我们不知道这意味着...,物理主义的意思不是...,人只是随随便便的某种肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.

就算约翰，巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I mean, I had to study abroad as a requirement as an IB student,

我的意思是，我必须出国留学，因为我学国际商务

学习外语的重要性 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is true even of seemingly identical signs, because each has its use value and is only intelligible as that which it exists to mean in a certain context.

看着相同的符号也是如此，因为每一个符号都有自己的价值,只有当它出现在某一语境中才能被理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Y I'm not passing an x and I'm not passing a Y, &y I'm passing an ampersand x and ampersand y and can you take a guess as to what the ampersand operator must mean?

我不是传递X，也不是传递，我传递的是&x和,你们可以猜一猜,这个&符号是什么意思？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Also, I mean, kind of independently or complimentarily as a corollary to that--to free up the financial system and to help financial institutions.

同时，我认为，似乎是一种独立地或者可以夸耀的,必然结果-解放金融体系,并且帮助金融机构。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They could mean nobody really believes they're going to cease to exist as a person, first possibility. Second possible claim, nobody really believes they're going to undergo the death of their bodies.

可以是说没人真正相信,他们会停止作为一个人存在，这是第一种可能，第二种可能是，没人真正相信,他们会经历肉体的死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选