"I don't look at this moment as the defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

It was the defining experience of the twentieth century, and the violence of the war continues into the 1920s and '30s.

这是20世纪人们所具有的共同经历,战争的暴力持续到1920年代和30年代

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I think it's very defining and your expression of not wanting something.

它可以非常清晰地表达你厌恶某事的情绪。

I hate 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Agha Saeed,a California State University political scientist and founder of the Pakistan American National Alliance, an organization of six Pakistani-American groups, called the planned demonstration sha defining moment for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

has been a defining trait of politics since in 1991."

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The colon is important It's defining the beginning of a block of instructions. Yes sir.

这个冒号很重要,是因为它定义了,一块指令的开始，有问题么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"But above all,your visit at this pivotal moment in history speaks to the opportunity before us to build the relationship between our nations born in the last century into one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Which is the one that's the crucial for defining the moment of death,right?

那个才是定义死亡事件的关键？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"The fight against terrorists and violent extremists has been returned to its right and proper place -no longer defining, indeed,distorting, our entire national security and foreign policy, but rather serving as a vital part of those larger policies,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

So let's just think exactly what this means, and that means that if we take away function and we define it in terms of n, l and m sub l, what we're defining here is the complete description of an orbital.

让我们来考虑一下这是什么意思，这是说如果我们不考虑波函数,而是用ｎ，ｌ，ｍ下标ｌ来定义它，我们定义的,是一个轨道的完整描述。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

One of the defining characteristics of a metaphor is that it breaks down almost immediately.

因为比喻的一个内在特点,就是转瞬即逝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Many of the issues that I raised in talking about defining literature are as relevant for literary criticism as they are for literary theory, and yet we all instinctively know that these are two very different enterprises.

当讨论文学的定义时，我提出的许多问题,对于文学理论和文学评论都同样相关，但我们都知道,它们是两个不同的概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Since what we had here was simultaneously losing both the ordinary body functioning and the special personality functioning, which loss was the crucial one in terms of defining the moment of my death?

我们这里同时失去了,平常的生理功能和特殊的人格功能，失去哪个是定义死亡时刻的关键呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And for any of the other compounds. So in other words, by defining that reference state, we can then figure out or measure heats of formation of a vast number of compounds.

对吧？对于任何其他的,化合物也是一样，所以换句话讲，定义了这个参考状态,我们就能算出或测量许多。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Which functions are crucial in defining the moment of death?

什么功能在定义死亡时刻时是关键的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what's crucial for defining the moment of death?

那什么才是定义死亡实践的关键呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But he is also defining a kind of school.

但他也定义了一种学派。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选