That means it is easier for planes with only two engines to strike a flock of birds and lose power in both engines.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

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

R/Cv OK, so that means that this is really instead of -1 R over Cv. it's really gamma minus one.

现在,变成了γ

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Something that is on the "fringe" means it is on the edge, outside established boundaries.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Just remembering that violet is the end that actually has the shortest wavelength, which means that it also has, of course the highest frequency.

就知道了，所以这应该,不是问题，记住紫色光，最后一个，它的波长最短,也就意味着它的频率最高。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

that means it is being offered for a limited time at a reduced price.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That means the song is so old, no one really knows who wrote it.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

And, it follows from him that political liberty means the freedom to act where the law is silent, as he says.

而他的政治自由意味着,我们可以在法律所认可的范畴内,享有充分的行动自由。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is a Latin word that means "ring" or "circle."

VOA: special.2009.01.11

4 So this is 16 times 4 equals 64 and though this is not proof by any means, it's not a formal proof because here is one example that happens to prove my point.

所以是16*4，即,尽管如此，这并不是严格的证明,因为是这个例子碰巧证明了我的观点。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He spoke to us about the finding. "It really means that the planet is more active than we thought,and more active and that can be geologically or maybe even biologically."

VOA: special.2009.12.30

And this is important because it means that since we cannot observe, we cannot talk about individual electrons.

这很重要,因为这意味着我们不能观察，不能谈及单个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Barker says what this means is that it could be weeks before the composition of Britain's future government becomes clear.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

The beauty of that is now we have discovered a notion of what it means to multiply a vector by a number.

现在最美妙的就是我们就已经知道,数字乘以矢量的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He said it is a serious international problem that should be addressed broadly and can not be solved entirely by military means.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

The interesting thing is that it means that the value of consol moves inversely to the interest rate.

有趣的是,它意味着,债务的价值向着利率的相反方向变化

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Geologists say that means it is likely the city will only ever feel the effects of earthquakes with epicenters more than 100 miles away.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

It means the greatest, the strongest, the ablest, the most admired. That is what you want to be.

而是说成为最伟大,最强壮,最能干,最受尊敬的人,这才是你该成为的人"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Here we are over one million, so that means that it is totally different.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The second is something a little more subtle and that is to find different ways to use technologies to basically stretch the boundaries to What it means to learn at MIT.

大学教育水平,第二件重要的事更微妙些,就是去发现不同方式使用技术来伸展,此对于在麻理学习的意义的界限。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"It is important that Navy families remain vigilant in not sharing potentially sensitive or secure information by any non-secure means, and that includes letters,e-mails, phone conversations,or social media including Facebook,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"There is the support of this counterinsurgency strategy, which means that ministers agree that it does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Why is disease bad? Well, among other things, it means perhaps that you can't enjoy yourself.

疾病为什么是坏的？不算其他，它意味着你不能享受生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What it means is I don't want to take unique time that we could be discussing other things in class by covering things that you could have read already.

这只说明我不想在课上单独花时间,来讲你们可能已经看过的东西,这个时间可以用来讨论其他内容

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What this means, if you average it out, is that since children start learning their first words at about their first year of life, they learn about nine new words a day.

如果你将这个数字平均一下,这意味着,儿童从一岁左右,学习第一个词开始,每天学会九个新词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So it's becoming much more sophisticated, much more interesting and the interesting thing about it is that it verifies a lot of the research that has been done to date with far less sophisticated means, such as self-rapport.

手段更成熟，更有趣，有趣的是,它验证了许多至今通过不全面的方法,所完成的研究的正确性，像自我评估。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So what we're going to see is less shielding, which means that it will actually feel a higher z effective.

那么我们将会看到更少的屏蔽，这意味着将会感受到更大的有效核电量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选