But religious leaders, like Pope Benedict, have been reminding the faithful that consumption is not the way to find meaning.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

And he took leave of him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

便在那里跟雅各告别，雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说，“我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Be careful, and this is going to be especially complicated and confusing when we get to quantities that have a more obscure meaning like entropy.

大家要小心，如果需要测量的物理量,如熵，没有很明确的意义,那么着可能变得很复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

We use a text to find meaning in something that we don't have available to us.

我们通过文本才能了解一些,我们不得而知的东西的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Altruism" is the biologists' term meaning kindness,generosity, and evolutionary biologists have worked really hard to explain why animals might evolve to be kind.

利他主义是生物学术语,意思是善良，慷慨，进化生物学家努力去解释,为什么动物进化趋向善良。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They have maybe a sense that I can influence events by willing or wishing and if I think that-- if I have kind of a mystical side to me, then probabilities don't have a clear meaning.

他们也许觉得 我可以通过意愿或者许愿,来影响事件的发展,也许...,我说不定有神力相助,如此概率这个概念就有些模棱两可了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And we talked about this before--that classical music, probably eighty-five percent of it, does not involve a text, and that's a whole different ballgame because then you have to communicate meaning in a completely different sort of way.

我们之前也说过，古典音乐，大约百分之八十五，都没有歌词，所以这就让这两者产生了本质的区别,听众必须用完全不同的方法理解音乐的内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

What's the point? Again, you can have things that are syntactically legal but not semantically meaningful, and static semantics is going to be a way of helping us decide what expressions, what pieces of code, actually have real meaning to it. All right?

重点是什么？重申，你可以有东西在语义结构的逻辑上有意义,但是在语义上无意义，而static语义,将是一个帮助我们,决定哪些表达，哪部分的代码实际上，有意义的途径，好么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If we need a 7, this is the ones column, the twos, fours, eights, so here are our columns and this was our decimal system a moment ago, and I wanna express the number 7 and the only digits 0 I now have access to are zero and one, whereas, in decimal, dec meaning 10.

如果你需要7，这是一位，二位，四位，八位，这是位数,刚才说的十进制的位数，我想表达7而且,只能采用数字1与，在十进制中，dec意思是十。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's easy to get lost in this sea of quantities, none of which have obvious meaning.

这里没有一样是，有明显的物理意义的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选