He became interested in the idea of sanitation after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

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

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

That is,they firmly believe in the idea of an eye for an eye.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

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 says manufacturers are increasingly interested in the idea of "cradle-to-cradle" technology.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

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

Marc Tucker says he expects interest in the idea to grow.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

So he came up with the ideas that led to the idea of Lewis structures in the very early 1900's.

他就提出了这个想法,进而发展出了路易斯结构在二十世纪初。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Clay was a firm believer in the idea of compromise.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

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

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

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.27

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

I may come up with an idea and it may end up being something in the middle of the piece.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

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

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

It's put in a different way by Iser, but it is in a large degree the same idea.

伊瑟尔用了不同的方法来讲述，但很大程度上说的也是同一概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In other cultures, paragraphs may be organized to build toward the main idea, which is revealed at the end.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Some time around this period of time,in early Christianity, somebody got the big idea, "Hey,let's cut up the scroll into pages, and sew the pages together. And then,put it all in a book.

大概在这段时期，在早期的基督教里，有人想出了一个好主意，即把书卷断成张页，并用线一张张连起来使之成书。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?

如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑，会引起怎样的后果呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

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

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

I said that a bit quickly, but we'll come back and look at that idea in more detail later on in the class.

我说的有点快,但是我们以后会再次回顾这个问题,并作深入的研究的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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