Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

No, I mean the responsibility of art, I think, to try to be equal to the world.

因为我认为艺术的责任，是与世界相媲美。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If you keep that in mind, and if you're just not shy, I mean, of course you're shy. Everybody's shy.

如果你能记住这个，而且你不害羞，当然你会害羞。所有人都会。

生存英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Daphne is supposed to be seen as one of those moms who mean well even if they make their kids crazy.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

I'm in over my head, so I better just get practical and give you some examples of what I mean."

我意识到自己做不了，因此我最好实际一点,给你们一些例子来传达我的意思“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Did those words mean that she must lose him now when they had just learned the lesson of life?

VOA: special.2009.11.14

If somebody says, "You know, nobody really believes they're going to die," they could mean one of two things.

如果有人说，没人真正相信他们会死“,这可能是两种意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Parents of children age ten to seventeen were asked whether their child bullies or is cruel or mean to others.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

I mean, obviously it's different because it's about something different, but I mean in terms of the Game Theory it's different.

很显然二者的研究对象不同,但是我是说二者涉及的博弈理论也不同

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But, at the mean time, of cource, we've seen nuclear proliferation in North Korea and now in Iran.

但是，同时，我们目睹了朝鲜的核扩散问题,现在伊朗也存在同样的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

They mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

I mean a lot of you, I imagine, make yourself kind of a salad at a salad bar.

我的意思是,假设,你去色拉吧要了一种色拉

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She showed that a brain injury did not mean the end of life or the end of joy.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

Such a condition, a state of war, may mean a condition of open warfare, but not necessarily.

这样一种状态，战争状态，也许意味着公开的战争状态，但这也不是必须的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The last hurrah also can mean the last acts of a politician, before his term in office ends.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Also, I mean, kind of independently or complimentarily as a corollary to that--to free up the financial system and to help financial institutions.

同时，我认为，似乎是一种独立地或者可以夸耀的,必然结果-解放金融体系,并且帮助金融机构。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

News of her success in Scandinavia did not mean much to concert hall owners in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

So, we can think about what would happen if we're on his thesis defense, we're on his thesis committee, we would need to think of some pretty mean, hard, nasty questions that's what happens when you defend your thesis.

所以，我们可以设想一下,如果我们在他的论文答辩会上,担任论文委员会的成员，那么会发生些什么，我们会想一些非常严厉的,冷酷无情的，险恶的问题,那也是你们在论文答辩时,会遇到的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

I was born in Jordan, I mean the capital of Jordan.

我出生于约旦的首都。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For example, large numbers of visitors can mean large numbers of vehiclesthat cause pollution and road damage.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

What does it mean that both of these elements have been retained here side by side? What is the phrase? The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. So keep that awareness.

同时保持这两种意识是什么意思呢，哪句话可以,概括这一情况，应该是“整体大于部分之和“,所以请时刻记住这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I mean there's a lot of agencies out there that specialize in third-world country brides, that are coming from poverty,uneducated, that kind of thing."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

It doesn't mean the council of the people necessarily, that would suggest something democratic.

它未必就是全体公民的议会,那会带有一些民主的意味

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

By regular rate we mean that the amount of time that each chord holds is exactly the same; every chord holds for the same length of time.

如果变化频率规则，那么和声中每个和弦持续的时间长度是完全相同的;,每个和弦都持续同样长的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I mean, just yesterday I unintentionally discovered another root beer that we had never heard of.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选