Tax-exempt means donors can claim their donations on their tax returns and possibly reduce the amount they owe the government.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

When the program is on your computer you say dot slash and this means on my computer.

当程序位于你的电脑上时，敲入,就意味着在我的电脑上运行。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because if b was odd, then b minus one is even which means on the next step, I can cut the problem in half again.

这意味着我在下一步里解决的问题,规模要小了一半，好，课堂材料的第三题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

And, if you take all of these ideas, omnidirectional and unsaturated, it means that ions can keep glomming on.

如果你注意所有的想法，无方向性和不饱和性，意味着离子能够保持攫取状态。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

while "phobos" means fear. Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

So that means that the more stable molecule is going to be this molecule here, which actually puts the negative charge on be more electronegative atom.

因此这意味着更稳定的分子,应该是这一个，它真正把负的电荷放到了,电负性更高的原子上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

And this means that the yellow cells on the right side are mouse hair cells in a chicken inner ear.

也就是说，右边黄色部分,代表的是小鸡内耳中的老鼠细胞。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And when someone says your words or actions hit the nail on the head, he means what you said or did was exactly right.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

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

This means they would pass on the gene for the green protein to their young.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Paideia The Greek word paideia, which is right there on your handout, means education, but it also means more than simply rote learning or memorization or learning to read, like we think.

希腊词，讲义上有，意思是教育，但不仅如此,它不仅仅指我们想的那种，死记硬背式的教育。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Something that is on the "fringe" means it is on the edge, outside established boundaries.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

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

Keeping a person on a short leash means keeping him or her under close control.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Again, easy pass here just means no mountains, we're not talking about something on the New Jersey Turnpike.

强调一下 平坦之途不用翻山越岭,我们说的不是新泽西收费公路

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Graduated means teenagers start with restrictions like on night driving and numbers of passengers.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

But I think Socrates means more than that, more than simply he wishes to rely on the powers of private individual judgment.

但我认为苏格拉底所指更多，他不只是希望,依靠个人判断的能力而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Children sing with them on the song Ng'Ayer Bukra, which means Change Tomorrow.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Well, that suggests that you were not using memory correctly and so we'll tease apart today exactly what it means to navigate inside of a computer by way of memory and we'll also touch on over time what are some of the evils that might happen.

嗯，那表示你没有正确地使用内存,我们将详细讨论,怎样操纵计算机的内存,以后，我们还将提及,可能发生的有害的操作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Most frequently, chord changes come on the downbeat so composers signal to us in a fourth way the downbeat by means of chord change.

通常,和弦的变化都在重拍上,所以作曲家们用这第四种途径,通过和弦的变化告诉我们重拍的位置

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

It's a long word that just means other chemistry that happens on the molecule after translation.

翻译后修饰意味着,在翻译之后对于产物分子的其他化学修饰

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"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

The word "defiled" means to take on some form of ritual impurity.

玷污“这个词指的是呈现一些不纯洁仪式的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It means, when you are accelerating upwards, as the elevator picks up speed, the reading on the spring will be more and you will feel heavy.

也就是说当你向上做加速运动时,就像电梯加速的时候,弹簧的读数会增大,你会觉得自己变重了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选