The W.H.O.has an influenza warning system in which phase six means that a pandemic is taking place.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Almost any game you play has some kind of randomness or pseudorandomness which means that things change overtime somewhat unpredictably.

大多数你所玩过的游戏都有某种,随机数或者伪随机数,这就意味着每个事件都存在不可预测性。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And that means radiation of energy, and that energy has to come from inside the atom itself.

意味着有能量的辐射，这些能量来自于原子本身。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Phase four means that a virus has gained the ability to cause community-level outbreaks.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Just remembering that violet is the end that actually has the shortest wavelength, which means that it also has, of course the highest frequency.

就知道了，所以这应该,不是问题，记住紫色光，最后一个，它的波长最短,也就意味着它的频率最高。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They say the presence of informal schools means that Kenya has two levels of education: One for children from the slums, another for children from better conditions.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

That means--his calculations are very different than the ones I have because he has a much longer sample period.

那表明。。。他的计算结果与我的大相径庭,因为它数据的取样跨度比我的长多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Calling something golden means it has great quality and value.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

That means the force you're applying is cancelled by another force, which has got to be the force of friction.

意味着你施加在物体上的力被另一个力抵消了,这个力就是摩擦力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

A tornado warning means that a tornado has been seen.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

That means that he has to expel from his system not just Homer, not just Virgil and Dante, but also his better teacher, Edmund Spenser.

这意味着他不得不从那个体系中脱离出来，不仅是荷马，维吉尔和但丁，还有他的良师埃蒙德·斯潘塞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It means the restaurant has sold out of something.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Stage three means the cancer has spread beyond the middle layers of the colon and most likely into nearby lymph nodes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Because, well, the programming language means everybody has access to those operations.

这个时候这没什么关系,因为编程语言内置也就意味着。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This means the gap between the haves and the have-nots will grow even larger than it already has.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

Since that's all been pushed out of the way by development, that means the food has to get shipped in from larger distances.

之后由于发展建设,耕地都不见了,这意味着食物要从相当遥远的地方运过来

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

which means that the medical examiner has ordered additional testing such as toxicology and other studies.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Better! So no error messages means success is probably what has happened.

好啦，错误信息消失了,这说明你编译成功了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Professor Thongthong Chandrangsu, secretary general of the Thai Education Council, says the king's long reign means he has a special place in Thai society.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Now, egocentrism has a meaning in common English which means to be selfish.

自我中心这个词在如今的日常英语里,是自私的意思

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

has a $13 trillion debt. "We have to make tough decisions about spending beyond our means."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

It means that neither player has an incentive to deviate from that point.

意味着每个参与人都不想偏离那一点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But,the world now has the means to rapidly diagnose malaria and treat it effectively.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

If a cell has a gene that makes it resistant to Ampicillin, that means that that micro-organism can survive being exposed to this normally deadly chemical without dying.

如果细胞带有一种基因,能够让它对氨苄青霉素产生抗性,即使把它放在,有致死剂量化学物质的环境中,它也能存活下来

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says the existence of fistulas means the health system has failed somewhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

It's providing a means of deciding where the gum has decayed.

提供了决定牙周炎在哪恶化的手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And rural agri-businesses can mean a pathway out of poverty, There has been much controversy and opposition over the use of genetically modified crops as a means of boosting productivity.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Austria has given Indian observer status which means that it's not impossible to imagine a more intergrade rule of India in east Asian economy, if it moves in that direction.

奥地利还给出调查结果称,如果印度继续按照原政策发展,那么想要在东亚经济体中,将印度摆到中等国家的想法，是不可能的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

When he says that his way of life has been private, he means that he has pursued a policy of, let's call it "the principled abstinence " from public life."

当他提到自己的生活方式是私密的时候，他所提的是他追求一种策略，我们可以称之为，“原则性疏离,公共生活“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选