The ruling is based on the idea in the United States and many other countries that a corporation is a legal person.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, again, it is based on size, it's a little bit less intuitive than the idea of just straining out all of the potassium ions.

因此，这还是以尺寸为基础的，只是有点不够直观,与钾离子挤不进去的图像相比。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ting-Chi Wang leads us to the permanent exhibition called With a Single Step. She says that the exhibition about Chinese immigrants in America was based on the idea of a heros travels.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选