A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

A nutrient is considered a substance within the food, that's when it digests it, absorbs, promotes some bodily function, so that it has some metabolic health value when people consume it.

营养素是包含在食物中的物质,由人体消化,吸收,推动身体机能,食品必须具有值得人类去代谢的健康价值

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Um, definitely, I think on average an accountant is considered to be, you know, a bean counter,

当然，我觉得会计师常被认为是精打细算的人，

会计学很有意思 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the president's decision to renominate Ben Bernanke for Senate confirmation is considered a safe one.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

We recognize in ourselves a virtue which is considered to be the cornerstone of many systems of moral understanding.

我们承认我们拥有那种美德，可以作为,许多道德认知体系的基石。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease where the body attacks healthy cells.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Why? This is not a Greek tradition, but it's very much a tradition in the East for kings to be considered by their people to be gods.

为什么呢？这并不是希腊传统，但在东方，统治者被人民尊为神明,却是一个重要传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

If the root is used, then parsley is considered a vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Having too much triaglyceride or fat in your blood, the wrong kind of fat in particular, is not considered a good thing.

你的血液里若有太多甘油三酯或其他脂肪,尤其是不良的脂肪,并不是一件好事

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Glass is considered a physical state of matter.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So subservience to a human king, native or foreign, is in these texts considered a rejection of the divine kingship, and it's seen as a breach of the covenant.

在这些文章中，归属于人类的国王，本土的，国外的，都会当做是对神圣关系的抵制，这被看作是违反契约的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is considered a kind of cheating.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

So when I was a senior, I had marginally considered this is an option.

大四时，我勉强认为这是个机会。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Immortal Technique is considered a political activist.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Anyway, they spoke Breton here. Now, Nantes isn't considered technically part of Brittany, but they spoke Breton there, which is basically a Gaelic language.

就是说在这说布列塔尼语,现在南特已经不算是,布列塔尼的了,不过那里也说布列塔尼语,基本上是一种盖尔语

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The organization behind the report, B'Tselem,is considered a leading human rights group in Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Subprime refers to mortgages, which is not the subject of today's lecture, but a subprime mortgage is a mortgage issued to a borrower who is not considered prime--not a good risk.

次贷指的是次级抵押贷款,这不属于今天的讨论范围之内,次级抵押贷款是发放给特殊借款人的,他们不是优质客户,也就是说风险较大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Shopping centers are huge in China. Fifty-thousand square meters is considered a tiny shopping center, which anywhere else in the world is considered a pretty significant center."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

That is to say, it strikes me that Darwin could very easily be considered a fourth hermeneut of suspicion.

也就是说，我突然想到,我们可以很容易地将达尔文看作是第四个怀疑解释论者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Solo is considered a stronghold for hard-line Islamist groups.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Aristotle is considered the "father of criticism," and yet he is also what Foucault would call a "founder of discursivity."

亚里士多德被认为是批判学之父“,但他是福柯承认的话语学奠基人“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And I think the reason it is considered a landmark conference is that quite a number of issues came to the fore, Controversy surrounded the Durban AIDS conference even before it opened.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The ironic fact is, because the New Testament is considered more important by people, there are a whole lot more people who take my New Testament classes than go over to the Classics Department and take a course in Plato.

讽刺的是，由于人们认为新约更重要，所以在我新约课堂上的人,远远多于,在古典学系选修柏拉图的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

That they defended themselves well is considered a victory, but NATO and Afghan police officials say there is still a lot of work to do before Afghanistan has a police force it can depend on.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Well, the odd thing is it's exactly the same with Saussure, who can be considered the father or patriarch of a certain kind of literary theory as I have just indicated.

索绪尔也是这样，他可以说是,某种文学理论之父了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"They have not got their acts together. So I think the Swat operation has sent a very strong signal and if the government now starts an operation in even Waziristan, which is considered as a hard nut, I think it has good chances to succeed."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The order of the list is based on how corrupt a country's government is considered by a number of international organizations.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

It is considered one of the highest honors a poet can receive.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The Czech Republic is also considered in a better position.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

However,the new law is also considered a political risk.

VOA: special.2010.03.27