Gentling means training it to accept the human attention needed for care and grooming.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

It's a fairly recent understanding of Maybe you can just give us a little time line of what human rights means.

这是一个新近的理解,也许你可以先给我们一个时间线索,讲讲人权含义的演变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So let me challenge you with this: inside of these curly braces where I have put a comment with slash slash -- a "comment" means nothing here gets compiled, it's just for the human to read.

让我用这个来挑战你们：,在这些花括号里面，我通过双斜杠写入了一个注释,-一条“注释“在这里不会被编译,它只是用来我们阅读的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Storylines often touched on matters of fate,destiny, spirituality,the meaning of life, or what it means to be human.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

I think that what you have to do as a young person is develop your human capital and that means knowing how to do things.

我认为作为一个年轻人 你们应该做的,是发展你们的人力资本,而这意味着你们要知道怎样做事情

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"There's no way that a human rights organization can possibly have the means, can possibly have the techniques, and the resources we have, in order to get the most accurate possible statistics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Another thing that's different about human cells and animal - human cells and bacterial cells is that many bacterial cells can swim and can exist in suspension, that means just suspended in a fluid.

人类细胞和动物细胞--,和细菌细胞,另一个重要不同是,许多细菌细胞可以游动,可以生活在悬浮液中,就是说可以悬浮在液体中

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It so happens that in some parts of Bolivia, this over-population of yacares is detrimental to human life So,there is a real claim there to sustainably manage the yacare population, which means killing them.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Trying to understand, not just on the cognitive level of the research, but also to experience on the visceral emotional level, what it really means to give ourselves the permission to be human.

希望你们理解，不只是在研究的认知层面上，还要在内心情感层面上去体会，准许自己为人的真正含义。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It simply means human or more precisely earthling because it comes from the word adamah, which means ground or earth.

它只意味着人，或者更准确地说是地球生物,因为它来自单词adamah，意为土地或地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选