They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Good, good to define to solve out for X: X is when this blue line equals, sorry, this blue line equals this red line.

很好,解释得很清楚,要解出X,X是这条蓝线,与红线的交点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So in the end,the canon is a list of the winners in the historical debate to define orthodox Christianity.

所以最后，正典书目只是赢家的清单,他们在这场定义东正教的历史争论中胜出。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It covers all things that involve the heart and define the effort of man to rise above the mechanical process of life."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

STUDENT: Right, we're going to do that in a second, but the answer is Fibonacci numbers, we define the first two.

学生：听不见：,我们马上会试一试，但是答案是斐波那契数列，我们可以定义下最初的两个数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers toward their students.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

And when we define that as r being equal to zero, essentially we're multiplying the probability density by zero.

当我们定义ｒ等于０处，事实上是把概率密度乘以０．

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

But what counts as respecting my life and respecting my property, that is for governments to decide and to define.

但到底怎样才算对生命和财产的尊重，这是由政府来决定和界定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Now,more cases will be needed to define the legal limits of business method patents.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Well, that may seem to be the most natural way to define death, but it's not an acceptable approach.

这似乎是定义死亡的最自然的方式，但并不是可以接受的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This is partly because I.C.C.members could not agree on how to define aggression.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

If the South was a slave society and we tried to demonstrate that last time, we tried to define that.

如果南方是奴隶社会,我们上次已经证明过了,我们也定义过了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"The crux of what this study is all about is that we define a new pathway where the brain talks to fat."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Alright, next thing I want to do is to define the vector that plays the role of the number 0.

接下来我想做的是定义一个矢量,它相当于数字0

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It was on a bus trip through an Afghan desert that she first encountered the faith that would come to define her spiritualism.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

Pity" and "terror," these become crucial terms, the terms that Aristotle, in his Poetics, used to define tragedy.

遗憾或恐惧“,这是很关键的词，亚里士多德在《诗学》中用它，定义悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"When you are going three miles a minute, it can be hard to clearly define that."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

If I could find the unique set of proteins that correspond to those genes I could define chemically what the cell is.

而我又能找到和这些基因对应的,这种独特的蛋白,我就能通过化学手段确认这是哪种细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"I think we have to define more precisely who we are, what we want, what kind of influence we can exert now in Europe or in the world, ".

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

You call for us to return to our values, the values that define this country as a nation.

您呼吁我们重拾价值观，那些将我们凝聚成一个民族的价值观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

While talk of what success is and how to define it went on in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO colleagues in Brussels that the current operations should be seen as an opportunity to bring moderate Taliban members into the political process.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Why don't we define a new unit of energy That isnear to what we have to measure?

为什么我们不确定一个新的能量单位,它近似于我们需要测量的一些量？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

We're going to make every effort to define literature as carefully as we can.

我们会尽可能小心地,给文学做出定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I don't know how to define it exactly, but I feel so incredibly alive.

我不知道怎么样去定义它，但我真的感到真实的存在感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选