This means that economic conditions beyond their control can affect the amount of money they will earn.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That means it's like alcoholism; they cannot control themselves and it ruins their lives.

这就好像酒鬼一样,他们无法自控,自毁前程

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Collectivism is the system of ownership and control of the means of production by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

And most of these commands you don't actually need but this little caret symbol means control, so every keyboard these days has a control key so you hold that and hit X for instance to exit the program.

这里大多数命令你们都用不着,这个小插入符意味着控制，每个键盘都有一个控制键,譬如，当你敲入X时，就退出这个程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her under close control.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

We've talked about a book written by Berle and Means who said that shareholders are so dispersed that they have really no control over a company and boards of directors are self-perpetuating.

我们曾提到过一本,写的书，Berle，and，Means,书中作者提到股东们过于分散,以至于他们对公司失去了控制权,但董事会却要长久地自我续存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That means he had a hard time realizing when it was out of control.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Ervin says that means some farmers have returned to using soil-disturbing tillage or more toxic herbicides to control weeds.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"They have gone through the past month or so of very hard effort to reach the point where they can begin to consolidate and control ground that they have won so, by no means this is over yet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27