She means young people who are more interested in technology and less interested in working all the time on the farm.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

I'll talk about what that means, encoding insulin means in a minute, but there's a gene that tells your body what insulin looks like and that gets transcribed but only in those cells that make insulin.

一会儿,我将会讨论基因编码胰岛素的意义,所有细胞都含有相同的胰岛素基因,它决定胰岛素的结构以及如何被转录,但是只有胰腺细胞才能产生胰岛素

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Cultural intelligence means the need to consider local behaviors in everything from simple handshakes to speaking to large groups.

VOA: special.2011.01.21

You can put a variable there, and because it's not encapsulated in curly braces, as we just discussed, that essentially means it's accessible everywhere in that file.

你可以加入一个变量，因为它不是封装在花括号里，就像我们刚才讨论的，本质的意思是它可以在文件的所有地方,都可以被访问到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The problem is that "lie" also means to not tell the truth, as in "I lied to my mother."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Adiabatic means there's no heat transferred in or out of the system.

绝热意味着系统,与化境没有热交换。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

So the meaning in life will be furthered by means of this kind of communication that takes place through responsivity.

因此生命的意义可以通过这种,相互交流而深化,而交流的途径就是反应。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

They call it Netra, which means eye in Sanskrit but stands for Near Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

To put it differently, in order to know what "Dogs" means, you never had to learn the word "Dogs."

换个说法,为了知道"狗狗们"的意思,你不需要去学"狗狗们"这个词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

After Christmas, black families in the United States might also celebrate Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits" in Swahili.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

In the very red means in that part of the brain is stimulated by the centre of your visual field.

红色部分说明这部分的大脑,收到视野中心的刺激。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"This means different regions are heading in different directions and some regions have indeed begun to eliminate overfishing."

VOA: special.2009.08.11

To be in a state of purity simply means that one is qualified to contact the sacred: to enter the sacred precincts, to handle sacred objects, and so on.

处于纯洁的状态仅仅意味着有资格,去接触神圣，比如说进入圣地的周边地区，打理神圣的物件，等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Afghanistan policy calls for establishing security in cities and towns, protecting civilians even if it means more danger for coalition troops.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

So what that means is that we're limited in any atom to having two electrons per orbital, right, because for any orbital we can either have a spin up electron, a spin down electron, or both.

这意味着在一个原子内,每个轨道上可以有两个电子，对吧，因为对任何轨道,我们可以有自旋向上或者自选向下或者两者都有。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"In a case where we do not have a lot of rainfall, it means we are going to lose all the crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

In Christianity,though,it means the list of texts that are scripture and recognized as different from other things.

然而在基督教里，它是作为圣典的一系列书籍,并被认为是与其他东西不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The W.H.O.has an influenza warning system in which phase six means that a pandemic is taking place.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

That means, we started to learn management science in the government, so that government--and also in corporations-- so they could manage effectively.

这意味着政府部门的官员,开始学习管理科学，公司里也是一样-,他们可以有效管理。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

And the closer it gets to the nucleus the greater the amount of energy, which means that you see this in the following manner.

而电子离原子核越近,能量值就越大，这就意味着你以下面的方式看到这些。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

For example, one word in the native language Carrier spoken in British Colombia means "he gives me an object like the fruit blueberries."

VOA: special.2009.12.02

To say that somebody does something alone means they do it not in the presence of others.

就是说人孤独而死的意思是,他们死的时候身边没有别人的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And what does that mean? It means I am trained in geology, but with interests in the other planets and Mars in particular."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

What that means, in a stored-program computer, is that I can provide to the computer a sequence of instructions describing the process I want it to execute.

它的意思就是说，我可以给一个存储程序计算机,提供一系列,描述我希望,能执行的过程的指令。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It means to treat a person kindly or gently, especially in a situation where you might be expected to be angry with him.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

Now it's by no means my main aim in this class to teach you jargon.

这节课的目的不是为了教大家术语

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选