This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

I don't like that idea. Especially because in the vast majority of physical punishment cases,

我不喜欢这个观念。尤其是考虑到大多数体罚的案例，

反对体罚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then they'll be like, "That's the stupidest idea ever," or "That's somewhat interesting but maybe this and this and this."

之后他们会喜欢它，“这是最傻的想法，“,或是“这很有趣,但可能这样或是那样更好。“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Because it's another thing that sounds like on the surface is a great idea."

VOA: special.2010.06.17

And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They do not like the idea of depending on vehicles that use gasoline.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He said the idea came to him when he observed that the coasts of South America and Africa could fit together like two pieces of a puzzle.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

But the reason that I like that analogy is that it points out a very important part of spin, and that's the idea that it's a description of the electron.

但我喜欢这个类比的原因是因为,它指出了自旋非常重要的一面，那就是它是一种电子的描述。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They came back and said, 'Sure,that sounds like a good idea, but could you train a monk to bake while you are here?'

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

So, it would be working parallel but their job would be to represent the consumer and that sounds like a good idea to me.

这样这个新的机构就能,但与其他机构不同的是他们的工作是保护消费者,对我来说这是个好点子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"You are always going to have racism, you are always going to have sexism, you are always going to have classism, that is something that we cannot change in one fell swoop, but with work and efforts like what is being done at IMAN, we chip away at that, one person,one character, one idea at a time."

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

And this idea that the city is essentially analogous to the soul, that the city is like the soul, is the central metaphor around which the entire Republic is constructed.

而这种,将城市视为实质上可与灵魂比拟的概念，城市也有灵魂的概念，即是环绕整部《理想国》,构建的核心隐喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And then finally we could add that--the idea that maybe with a lot of electronic basses and things like that that they play--they tend to play the bass just louder.

然后最后我们可以添加这个，一种很多电贝斯和其他同类乐器演奏的方式,倾向于将低音演奏得响亮一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You could use a sign language thing for "Drink" that looks sort of like the act of drinking but you can't use a sign language word for "Country" that looks like a country, or for "Idea" that looks like an idea.

你可以用看起来像喝这个动作的手语,来表示"喝",但你无法用看起来像国家的手语,来表示"国家",或用看起来像想法的手语来表示"想法"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Anyway, if you imagine sort of putting on a modern football helmet, with that mask in front of you, you would begin to get an idea, only begin to get an idea of what it was like to have that bronze helmet on your head.

总之,如果你戴着一个现代橄榄球头盔,前面还有面具,你就能稍微体会一下那种感觉了,但这还是跟铜质头盔的感觉,相去甚远的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I like the idea of... after seeing that movie, it makes you afraid to go home and go to sleep,

看完那部电影后，我就喜欢上了那种创作，它让观众不敢回家上床睡觉，

要成为导演 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So that you get a good idea of what people do in their free time and what the dorms are like.

所以你可以了解人们闲暇时间做什么，宿舍什么样。

沟通很重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And conceptually, the idea of cubing a value feels like you could package that up into a little box, a little tool that takes input, a value, and returns output the answer A* so you don't have to constantly do A star, A*A So this program ,at the end of today, is pretty much the same thing.

概念上，算一个值的立方就像是,你可以把一个值打包放在一个小盒子里,一个用来接收输入的工具,一个值，然后返回一个答案,所以你并不需要一直使用，等等。，A，star，，A，，and，so，forth。,这个程序，最后，是一个差不多的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It seems to be presented entirely innocuously, no one in the dialogue objects to it, yet everything else follows from this idea that the city, the polis, is in the central respect like an individual, like the soul of an individual.

这似乎看起来完全无关紧要，所以对话中的每一个人都不反对，但之后所有的事都慢慢浮现,就从这个概念开始,城市、城邦，重视的核心与个人相同，也像个人的灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选