But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Another illustration of the difficulty of translating all values, in this case, a certain idea of virtue, into utilitarian terms.

这个例子再次说明,很难把所有的价值，此处特指某种德行，转换为功利主义形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So that you get a good idea of what people do in their free time and what the dorms are like.

所以你可以了解人们闲暇时间做什么，宿舍什么样。

沟通很重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Today the idea lives on in a new generation of string trimmers and edgers that people often call weed whackers.

VOA: special.2011.07.19

If there's a group, responsibility to help decreases and this is captured in different ways but the main idea is we all think someone else will help so we don't. There's a diffusion.

如果是一群人，帮助的责任就会分散变小,这体现在多个方面,但最主要的想法就是我们都认为别人会帮助,所以我们就不帮助了，责任被分散了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Amizade's executive director, Eric Hartman, thought of the idea in Brazil in nineteen ninety-four, which explains the Portuguese name.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

It is a transnational idea, in other words, which nevertheless has, obviously, certain specific applications depending on where it is.

这是一个跨国的概念，但是很明显，它也有其明确的地区性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

To test this idea, the team in Cuba offered $100 to anyone who would agree to be bitten by infected mosquitoes.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

And the rejection of this motif or this idea in Genesis 1 is pointed and purposeful. It's demythologization.

但《创世纪》第一章中对此模式或观点的否定,是明显且有目的的，它是一种去传奇化的叙述。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Those scientists included researchers who question the idea that human activity is causing temperatures in the atmosphere to rise.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

It will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life.

在某个时刻，旧点子会以另一种形式重新出现,或者另一个想法在会出现在你的生活中。

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

It is always a good idea to keep a lot of necessary supplies in the home even before winter begins.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Aaron Antonovsky Aaron Antonovsky, the third person I would consider the grandfather, brought in the idea of focusing on health.

还有，第三位祖父级人物，提出了关注健康的理念。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

Well they definitely have to be independent of the government and that was the idea in the U.S.

好吧，他们当然需要,独立自主地面对政府,这就是美国的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They also said it was a bad idea for the United States to take control of any nation in the Caribbean.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

So even within this framework of, given a description of a computation as a set of steps, in the idea that I could build a circuit to do it, let me suggest for you what would be a wonderful circuit to build.

所以即使需要在将计算描述，当成一系列步骤中的一步,这个框架之内,我也完全可以建立一个线路,来完成那个想法，让我为你们假设能建造起,一个多么棒的线路吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

But what I'm going to tell you already is this is a case where, in fact, it's an exception to the idea that the lowest energy structure has the lowest ionization energy in the middle, and we can figure this out when we look at formal charge.

但是我已经告诉大家这个例子，实际上，是中心原子电离能最低的结构,的能量最低这一思路的一个例外，我们可以通过形式电荷看出这一点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.30

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

Critics of the idea say the living areas in submarines are too small and narrow for men and women to serve together.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Now let's talk for a moment about the idea of pulse in music and the beat in the music and rhythms in music.

接下来我们花点时间,说一下音乐的律动这个概念,还有音乐的拍,和音乐的节奏

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It would violate the Constitution and the ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence: the idea that all men are created equal...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

You can smell the bacon when people make it in the morning, the idea of French fries cooked in fat becomes appealing to people.

早上有人在烤肉时,你能闻到香味,富含脂肪的炸薯条对人很有吸引

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers toward their students.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The basic idea in solving these equations and integrating is you find one answer, so then when you take enough derivatives, the function does what it's supposed to do.

解决这类方程以及积分的基本思想就是,你求出一个解,然后进行多次求导,求导的结果就满足条件

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association points out that using ash in cement is not a new idea.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

So he moves, as the libertarians later would move, from the idea that we own ourselves, that we have property in our persons to the closely connected idea that we own our own labor.

因此他更进一步，自由主义者此后也将如此，从自我拥有的观点，从我们拥有自我所有权，更进一步,到与之紧密关联的，我们拥有自己劳动的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You get the idea here, is to deliver the gene that you're interested in directly to the tissue where it's being used and in this case, the idea is to introduce a gene that's missing.

但首先你要明确,这种思路是用来将,某个目的基因直接导入,它原本就能被利用的组织中的,此例中是导入一种缺失的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选