Another man at the party said such a trip would be a great idea.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

So if you have a great idea, you know, talk to a good patent attorney and get it locked away.

所以当你有个好点子的时候，你们知道的，找个专利代理人,然后把它好好藏起来吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

because I said, "Listen, I got a great idea, let's go for it." And she did exactly what I said.

因为我说：“听着，我有个好主意，我们研究吧。”我怎么说她就怎么做。

中国学生的特点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Jeff Sessions is a Republican from Alabama: "This legislation may have a great vision, it may have a great idea about trying to make the system work better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Obviously the algorithm is likely to depend on the size of the input, so this is not a great idea.

很明显这个算法是与我的,输入的大小相关的，因此这不是个好方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But during the Great Depression, Fred Allen had the idea of creating a series of complete stories and situations.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

It's great idea with a lot of hard work and then you work at it for year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six years, seven years, eight, nine, 10.

勤奋的工作，一年两年，三年,有或者更多，甚至10年，是很好的想法。

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

The idea was to design great places to live.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

That's a great idea except for the fact that you just wrecked the philosophical point.

想法不错,只不过,你避开了我们今天要谈论的哲学问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"So the idea was to recognize these great inventors, hold them up as role models for young people, and help young people see that aspiring to be an inventor is a great thing."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

It was never actually used but it was a great idea.

虽然这个想法并没有成为现实,但它却是个非常伟大的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So if somebody in our new plant in Sao Paulo comes up with a great idea, which I'm sure they will, that idea can be transferred to Xiamen, China, or to Ireland, or to Malaysia, or to North Carolina very easily.

如果我们在圣保罗工厂的员工,想出了一个好主意，他们一定能想出，这主意会被传到中国厦门，或者爱尔兰，或马来西亚，或北卡罗来纳州，这很容易。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We've had a great deal to do with it, but of course we still haven't the slightest idea what it is.

我们花了很大的功夫来接解决这个问题，但我们仍然一点都不知道语言是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And so I can--a great deal after all, 20 years-- I can give you a pretty good idea of what it's like to live in France, even if I didn't move there for the rest of my life without ever coming back."

所以我可以,毕竟二十年还是有很多,关于住在法国是什么样的感觉,我可以给你很好的描述,就算在我的有生之年我再也不会,搬回法国

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You're all cleverer than that, but I want to point out why that's not a great idea.

你们肯定会想出比这聪明的方法，但我还是要说说为什么这不是一种好办法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选