"I mean,he hands over 80 percent of his low-enriched uranium: that means for the next 13 months he will not be able to go down that path, meaning that he will lose a lot of leverage with the West,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

There is no way to compensate or punish someone for murder, it simply means forfeiture of one's own life.

谋杀者没有办法补偿或者受罚，只能以自己的生命为代价。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's interesting to think about what's driving that and what it means for our health and for international politics.

到底是什么导致了这些变化以及,这对我们的健康和国际政治意味着什么,这些都值得我们思考

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This week on our program, we ask three generations of people what the holiday for love and romance means to them.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Kant says people ought to be an end and not a means for us; we ought to understand them on their terms."

康德说人们应该使我们的终点，而不是途径;,我们应该从他们的角度来理解他们“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Suspending habeas corpus means that a prisoner can be held without trial for as long as the government wants.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And this means for Hobbes, first of all, adopting his book as the authoritative teaching on moral and political doctrine in the universities.

鉴于此，霍布斯的首要任务，是把他的著作作为权威的教学方式,在大学里讲授道德和政治学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

So, this really just means for frequency, it's a frequency label.

你要说米每秒，所以它仅仅是，用来表示频率的，是个频率的标志。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some experts believe the word for chocolate came from the Aztec word "xocolatl" which in the Nahuatl language means "bitter water."

VOA: special.2010.02.17

It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They call it Netra, which means eye in Sanskrit but stands for Near Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

They will reform their natural structure, and for DNA that means forming double helixes.

它们将重新形成原本的结构,对于DNA来说,就是重新形成DNA双螺旋

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The Afghanistan policy calls for establishing security in cities and towns, protecting civilians even if it means more danger for coalition troops.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

If we want to write sodium, for example, sodium 23, 11. Well, 11 means it is sodium.

如果我们想写钠，举个例子，钠23，11，好了，11表示它是钠。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It means a person who starts and operates a new business and has responsibility for any risks involved.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Psychological framing" means the tendency for people to view things in a distorted way depending on how they're presented.

框架效应是指,一个问题两种在逻辑意义上相似的说法,会导致了不同的决策判断。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

June means one more big test for many students finishing college -- a test of the job market.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

So let me challenge you with this: inside of these curly braces where I have put a comment with slash slash -- a "comment" means nothing here gets compiled, it's just for the human to read.

让我用这个来挑战你们：,在这些花括号里面，我通过双斜杠写入了一个注释,-一条“注释“在这里不会被编译,它只是用来我们阅读的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This means she will do something for me, if I do something helpful for her in exchange.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

For isothermal expansion, that means that delta u does not change, but delta q is equal to delta w?

在等温过程中，是不是内能不变，Δq等于Δw？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

For example, one word in the native language Carrier spoken in British Colombia means "he gives me an object like the fruit blueberries."

VOA: special.2009.12.02

So why don't you talk about the experience that you had in Israel and also a little bit about what it means to be an Orthodox Jew for those people who don't know maybe the difference between reform and conservative Orthodox.

那何不讲讲你,在以色列的经历,再讲讲,什么是犹太教正统派,向那些可能不知道,改革以及保守正统派的区别的人解释一下。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

So what this means, if you used to have two children and now you have four, how do you provide for the extra two?

比如一家过去有两个孩子,现在多了两个,多了两张嘴,怎么办呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Internet access to newspapers means that more people may read the news, which is good for society.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And so, that simple fact is why we would expect animals to care for their children, because children are the means through which genes replicate.

所以，简单的事实是,我们为什么期待动物关心后代，因为后代是基因繁衍的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We never will move out of the crisis if we do not re-establish confidence, which means we have to establish signposts for the future."

VOA: special.2009.01.23

When we see that, when we look on the web, we see that expression of both a hope for something better that the web seems to represent for them and we see that sense of furious anxiety about what school classroom actually means to these kids.

当我们认真看那些网站的时候，我们看到了这样一种表达,希望更好的生活,仿佛只有网络能够提供给他们,同时我们还看到了那种狂躁不安,困惑于到底学校的课堂对这些孩子们意味什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选