These marks on the skin can also be a sign of another form of lupus called systemic lupus.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And a sign of the humans' importance is the fact that Humans are said to be created in the image of God, And this occurs in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

另一个表明人类重要性的事实是,人类是依着上帝的模样创造的，这是《创世纪》第1章第26节中讲到，“让我们依着自己的模样造人，与我们相仿“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A spokeswoman for the Green Roadway Project says it would be a sign of hope for young people.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well,long fingers might also be a sign of a good basketball player or pianist.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

So you'll see that you have in front of you a legal release form, you have to be able to sign it, and what that says is that we can use you being shown in class.

你们的面前应该有张授权书,授权书的大概内容是,允许我们把你拍摄进来

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But hoarseness can also be a sign of something worse.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Professor Rais says if Taliban and al-Qaida militants have relocated to Baluchistan, it could be a sign of desperation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Market analyst Sunil Shah says that may be a sign of things to come.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

These are some of the implications of no longer being satisfied with the way in which a sign can be understood as a concept to which we attach belatedly a signification, a signifier.

有一些意指已不满足于,符号被理解为概念的方式了,我们就再赋予它们一个含义，一个能指。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They said it would be seen as a sign of weakness.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Senator Kerry said the package is intended to be a true sign of friendship for Pakistan, while spokesman Crowley said it creates balance in the U.S.aid program and that it is hard to see how that impedes Pakistan's military.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13