On Friday,that officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, who was deeply involved in the Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy review during both the Bush and Obama Administrations, declined to characterize the old strategy, but told reporters the new one is very different.

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But there's actually hidden in there an important element, and that is, when I create an instance, I have to be able to get access to the things that characterize that instance.

也就是，当我创建了一个实例,我应该能够获得那些特性化，这个实例的东西，我的意思不是说它们是想法,或者情绪之类的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And what we want to do then, is we want to basically come up with, how do we characterize the growth-- God bless you-- of this problem in terms of this Quadra-- sorry, terms of this exponential growth.

现在我们想要做的就是,我们怎么来量化增长率呢？,在这个问题中也,就是框架-对不起是，输入指数的增长。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, here are at least three examples of canceled children, and you can use that phrase, I think, to characterize Lolita. She is a canceled child.

那么，这里至少有三个被忽视的孩子的形象，我想你们,也会用这个词去描述洛丽塔，她也是一个被忽视的孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's an extraordinarily dark way to characterize the composition and the process of the poem.

这样来界定创作诗歌的过程,是一种非常不好的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I was wondering how you learnt to differentiate and characterize these great ideas when they come.

所以我很好奇你是怎么识别,和定性这些想法的呢？

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

And x-ray diffraction allows us to characterize solid matter.

让我们可以用来,表征固态物质。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There seems to be a doubt, a variety of doubts, about the foundations of what we can think about the basis of our opinions, that pervades theory, and is seen somehow or another to characterize its history.

有些事物，是我们思想的基础和看法的依据,但理论中却充斥着对它们的质疑，而这些质疑也被视为理论的特征之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So while the relationship of D to some of the laws in the Covenant Code is often--not always but often--one of revision, the relationship between D and the laws in the Priestly source is more difficult to characterize.

那么，尽管申命记材料和契约法典中的律法的关系,往往是，不是总是而是往往，是修订，申命记材料中的,律法和祭祀派材料的的关系则更难定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now, let's characterize--oh, geez. we've got to move here.

我们得加快速度了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Milton claims that he will one day use the English language to express what he calls "some graver subject," some more important subject matter, and he proceeds to characterize what that graver subject will look like.

弥尔顿声称有一天他将用英语,来表达他所谓的“一些严肃的主题“,还有一些更重要的主题，然后他继续描述这些严肃的主题都是什么样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选