"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

It's only what it means to write a poetry of passion that Yeats is now beginning to rethink.

叶芝只是重新开始思考,写作关于激情的诗意味着什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The "I'll" pattern of course, it means the same thing as the "I will." It's only the contraction.

当然，“I'll” 与 “I will” 句型都表达同样的意思。前者仅仅只是后者的缩写形式。

I will 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"This stadium means a lot." "It is a splendid stadium such as is only seen in a few places on earth."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

We're already using it up in this pi bond here, so that means we're limited to only two other spots on the molecule, so we have three.

我们已经把它用到这个π键里去了，所以这意味着,我们在分子里只剩下两个位置，所以一共是三个。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

So in other words, every time I merge the point that I kept emphasizing verbally there and that I'm only touching each number once, means that we have to account for the amount of time it takes to merge N which is going to be just N. Now, this is again one of these cyclical answers.

换言之，之前在做合并时,我不停地强调,对每个数字我只碰了一次，这就是说,我们要记录合并所花的时间量,也就是这里的,这又是一种循环性的答案。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's only endemic, that means only naturally occurring in certain countries.

这是种地方性疾病,这意味着仅在几个特定国家中发病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

People never thought of insurance as the same as a bank, but since this is relatively recently-- that was only nine years ago--at this time, it means that we are now seeing an expansion of our banking system in the U.S.

人们从来不认为保险和银行是一回事,但是从那法案之后它们就是差不多的了,这只不过是九年前的法案,但是现在,这意味着在美国,银行系统得到了扩张

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That means, it can only be rattling around in a circle of radius R.

也就是说它只能,限制在一个半径为 R 的圆上运动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选