If anything defines American music, he says, it is a spirit of redefinition and reinvention.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

It defines the state of the system.

温度与压强。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This combining of data and functions on that data is a very essence of object-oriented programming That's really what defines it.

数据与函数的结合,是面向对象编程的核心,这也就是它的定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"It re-defines the definition of a cash payment back to the previous terms of payment after the ship has been loaded;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The opposition is between poetry that makes money and poetry that, precisely because it is good poetry as modern poetry defines it, does not.

对立性主要存在于为了赚钱的诗歌和,不为金钱的角度，现代诗歌意义上的,好诗歌之间的分歧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But not all agree that it was genocide. Ronald Suny,an expert on Armenia with the University of Chicago, defines genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

And he defines it almost in terms of laws of physics.

而他解释时运用的大多是物理的法则。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"It is not the absence of crisis. It is the manner in which the crisis is going to be met and resolved that defines a nation,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

And this is not the sort of thing that we're going to come back and quiz you on, so don't worry about the details here, but it's interesting how the field defines different terms.

这不是考试内容,不是为了以后考你们,所以不要担心其中的细节,这个领域的定义是很有趣的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He brings with it important benefits and in the passage that I'm referring to, he defines himself as a gadfly, everyone will remember that, the gadfly who improves the quality of life in the city.

他强调能带来显著好处,在我将引用的段落中，他自称是只牛虻，众人都将铭记，是牛虻改善了,城邦的生活质量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选