It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Now,notice that does not necessarily mean it's canonical because scripture in some religions refers to a bunch of stuff.

要记住它不一定是正典,因为圣典在某些宗教里涉及很多东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A lot of cool stuff to do, I mean, I got opportunity to work in the city. It's a great city.

有很多很棒的事情可做，我的意思是，我能够有机会
在这里工作。这是个非常棒的城市。

旧金山最棒 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In other words, just because women cry more does not mean they are more likely to have a "good" cry.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

What do you mean, "raw"? "Well, somebody's sitting in a field eating a carrot. That's raw," you say, but wait a minute: what is this notion of "raw"?

生食“是什么意思，嗯，某一个人坐在田野中吃萝卜，这是生食“,你说，但是等等，这个生食的概念是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is a leader in the sign-making industry - a real big gun,if you know what I mean.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

How can we prevent murderous schoolyard violence in children who have access to weapons,poor parental supervision, and a mean streak?"

如何防止校园暴力,这些暴力事件通常是由掌握武器，缺乏父母监管，或受到教唆的孩子引起的“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

She may work with cowboys, but she says that does not mean she cannot make something more feminine once in a while.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

Did you... I mean, cause I could predict both of where you are, you are in the west bank, you are in Israel, and not really seeing a way. You know what I mean. And so what did you resolve?

那你们，我的意思是，我能够预计,你们两个所处的情形，你在西岸，你在以色列，却不是很容易找到一个方式，你们懂我的意思吗？,你们如何解决的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The last hurrah also can mean the last acts of a politician, before his term in office ends.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

In Genesis 6--I mean, the text you pointed out is a good one but even better, go look at Genesis 6 where you have these nephilim, these divine beings who descend to earth and they mate with female humans.

在《创世纪》的第六章，也就是你们指出来的很好的一章,去看，你们会看到这些伟大的神灵，这些神灵降临凡间，与人类女子结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

A-Yes, so this is what you mean by the parodying shift that we need, A-desperately need in our foreign policy B-Yes.

所以这是您所说的,我们所需要的转变，我们在外交政策方面急需做出的转变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Another reason is that a small change in temperature can mean the difference between snow and rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

I don't mean make it always in terms of an IPO but have a long term life.

我说的成功并不限于上市，公开募股什么的,而是让公司长久的运营下去。

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

A Hamas leader said in Damascus that the call for a truce would mean a surrender.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

The other tip I'm going to give you is any time you see a chain molecule, by chain I just mean many different atoms written out in a row.

我要告诉大家的另外一个小窍门是,每当你看到一个链状分子，链状的意思是说很多,不同的原子写成一行的形式。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I mean there's a lot of agencies out there that specialize in third-world country brides, that are coming from poverty,uneducated, that kind of thing."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

What does it mean to do anything in a world in which God seems to be so entirely in control of all of our doings and of our actions?"

在一个上帝似乎控制了,我们所有的活动的世界里,我们做那些事又有什么意义？“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says John Fitz Gerald, a writer for a New York newspaper, used the name The Big Apple to mean New York in the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And what does it mean for the state to be a part owner in me?

政府是我的部分主人，又意味着什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"When I went to the South and met the kind of people who were fighting in such an unglamorous fashion, I mean, fighting to just get someplace to sit and get a sandwich.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Another important concept in probability theory that we will use a lot is expected value, the mean, or average-- those are all roughly interchangeable concepts.

概率论中另外一个常用的重要的概念是,期望值或者也叫均值,这两个概念可以互换

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the mean time, activists have presented a draft law to members of Parliament outlining their requests.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Now, having said that, of course, that doesn't in any way mean that it's a good thing that we die when we do at 50 or 80 or 100.

说明这个观点后，当然那并不意味着,我们在50，80，100岁时死掉,是件幸事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I mean,there's just a thrill in seeing a disc just go and go and go."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

So that's a problem and let's put in the payoffs, and we'll put in the payoffs that roughly I think would correspond so my preferences and we'll talk about it what these preferences mean in a second.

问题就在这里,我先写完收益,先把相应的收益写下来,这和我的偏好差不多,一会再说这些偏好是什么意思

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That's the whole thing about being a kook,I mean, being willing to be a beginner, make a fool out of oneself once in a while."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.

这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, a cross-sectional study would mean that you'd get a random group of the population and measure them in 1970 and then take another random group five years later and measure them, but it wouldn't be the same people necessarily, it would be different groups of people.

那么,横断面研究就是,1970年你在人群中随意选择一组人,并记录下相关数据,然后,五年后再随意选择一组人记录数据,但这不需要是同一组人,通常是不同的人

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选