A better idea is to harvest foods either early or late in the day, then leave them to cool naturally.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.

叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But something that tugs at an idea or a feeling that you really can't define or name, that is timeless.

但那些激发你某种莫名的想法或感觉的东西，却是永恒的。

关于现代美术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

And the reasons for this coupling of the name Milton and of this idea or the metaphor of power, I think, are worth looking in to.

我认为，人们之所以将米尔顿这个名字,与力量这个概念配对的原因是值得研究的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Another common expression, to hold water, is about the strength or weakness of an idea,opinion or argument.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And it's a worldview deeply rooted in the idea or respect for tradition; tradition and social control.

还是一个深深的,根植于传统思想,尊重传统的世界观,即传统和社会控制

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

She had no idea who Wallace Gray was or how he was involved in any of this.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

Then they'll be like, "That's the stupidest idea ever," or "That's somewhat interesting but maybe this and this and this."

之后他们会喜欢它，“这是最傻的想法，“,或是“这很有趣,但可能这样或是那样更好。“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

One was the idea of voluntary relief societies to provide assistance to the wounded or other people.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

It's from that story we have the idea that mankind is responsible or has dominion over the animals and the earth.

从这个故事中，我们感到,人类是重要的，人类统领着,其他动物和整个地球。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We might even put a bug in your ear or give you an idea about something.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

To enter God's realm requires imitation of God or imitatio dei, right, an idea that I put up here, imitatio dei: imitation of god.

要进入上帝的界域就必须模仿上帝，哪怕一点，在这里我给出一个观点：模仿上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The president will soon offer some idea of how much his plans have or have not changed when he gives his State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

At the same time you will get not just the second or third implementation of a good idea funded.

同时你得到的又不仅仅是对新想法的,二手或者三手实施方案。

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

The researchers say their findings support the idea that a huge explosion or explosions caused fire and pressure powerful enough to kill off life on the Earth.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

To Walt Whitman, democracy was more than a political system or idea.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And the idea of this--What that means is that development of an individual mimics or repeats development of the species.

这个短语的意思是,个体的发展,模拟或重演了种族的发展

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The student might support an idea, question it or even disprove it.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

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 it was Jeremy who kind of had the idea to start using it like a tortilla or a crepe, and just stuffing it with all manner of different things."

VOA: special.2011.08.08

Now, I put a version up there, I have no idea if this is the right way to do comparisons or not.

现在，我把一个版本放在这里了，我不知道这是不是,做比较的正确方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The second question that you might think we'd want to get clear on is, "What's the idea, or what's the concept, of surviving?"

第二个你要,弄清楚的问题是,活着的概念是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Whether or not that is the case remains to be seen, but that was the idea behind his resignation,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.

这和Nabokov的想法迥然不同,他讲具体化视为一种替代物或者是竞争的创造性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"The idea of thinking about life after "Lost" or life without "Lost", is incredibly bittersweet."

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

This idea that I don't really care, or that I don't really think I can come to terms with the actual meaning of an entity as that entity, is instrumentalizing the entity.

我不在乎，或不接受这个观点,它认为一个实体作为实体的意义，在于使实体工具化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

All political action you might say is guided by the idea of better or worse.

所有的政治行动,都可说是,受到改善或恶化的指引。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选