Ted Nash wanted to copy the idea of thrown paint musically by creating a composition that sounded big and free.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

One of the things that extended time in the wilderness allows is sort of a reorienting of the idea of control.

在野外读过的漫长时间,让我们懂得很多事情，其中之一,是对于“控制“这一概念的重新认识。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I like the idea of... after seeing that movie, it makes you afraid to go home and go to sleep,

看完那部电影后，我就喜欢上了那种创作，它让观众不敢回家上床睡觉，

要成为导演 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer and a writer in Maine who has helped popularize the idea of four-season farming.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The idea of her little family looking fresh and new for once in their lives made her restless with excitement.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Those are two voices that often come, in some ways, come against one another But they also come against the idea of pluralism.

这两种说法常常，会彼此相互攻击,但它们也会攻击多元主义的观点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Conservatives object to the cost, and the idea of what they say is just another bailout for the car industry.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

An idea of abstraction, that idea of specification, is exactly what we want to use inside of our functions.

抽象的概念，规格化的概念,就是我们想要运用到。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So, doing those probability density dot graphs, we can get an idea of the shape of those orbitals, we know that they're spherically symmetrical.

概率密度点图上,我们可以对这些轨道的形状，有个大概了解,我们知道它们是球，对称的,我们今天不讲。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.09

I'm just trying to give you an idea of the variety of different canons for different churches in different regions.

我只是想让你了解一下,不同地区不同教会的各种正典书目。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

CARLOS AMAYA: "By then, I had already developed my own idea of what sustainable was, and where it needed to go."

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Foucault, by the way, doesn't mention Nietzsche, but he might very well because Nietzsche's idea of "genealogy" is perhaps the central influence on Foucault's work.

福柯，没有提到尼采，但是他可能很喜欢，因为尼采的“宗谱“理论“,可能是对福柯作品影响最大的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A few of the stolen e-mails showed open dislike for scientists who oppose the idea of human-influenced global warming.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

I want to make another, slightly more philosophical remark associated with this and it's to do with the idea of "Leadership."

第二条结论就是,我不妨说得稍带有些哲学的意味,这和领导力是紧密联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That is when a government takes ownership of a private business, often with the idea of selling it back to investors later.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The platonic idea of justice concerns harmony, he tells us, both harmony in the city and harmony in the soul.

柏拉图式的正义观是关于和谐，他说到，那是关于城市的和谐与灵魂的和谐。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Today this idea of selling syrup to locally owned bottlers can be found throughout the soft drink industry.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

So, that's the whole idea of how banking got started, and how paper money got started, at least in the West.

这就是关于银行是怎么出现,和纸币是怎样出现的,至少在西方是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Both were interested in the idea of making a textile piece from silk of the golden orb spider.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

This will kind of bring some of these factors together, along with the idea of what people thought they were.

这样可以让这些因素结合起来,并沿着自我认知的思路讲下去

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The idea of admitting mistakes and finishing the business of the old year is found in many cultures.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And, in general, the idea of what goes on in classical conditioning is that the response is sort of a preparation.

一般认为，在经典条件作用中,反应就是某种准备过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She said when white audiences saw her, they were busy seeing their own idea of a black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And I wanted to do it a different way which is a little bit convoluted, but it introduces the idea of a thermodynamic cycle, and it's something that we're going to use a lot in the class.

现在我将用另一种,有些复杂的办法来推导这一关系，在这一过程中引入,我们今后会常接触到的,热力学循环的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选