It doesn't mean it's going to be easy. But,I think it can be over the period of time that we're talking about."

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Chastity, however, was beginning to mean something new in the period.

然后贞节在那时开始意味着一些新的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, and by reform I mean a period in which people became professional reformers.

我的意思是一段时间中,人们都成了专业的改革者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The amount of food available is striking, I mean in the period of time I was--since I was a child there are a lot of changes that have occurred, and I mentioned some of this in the last class-- but when I was a child you didn't have rows and rows of food at a drugstore.

现有粮食的数量是惊人的,当我还是小孩的时候,身边就发生了很多变化,我上节课曾提到过一些,在我小的时候,药店里还没有满货架的食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选