He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone's life meant nothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

no surprise] as we refer to the objects they are meant to present - a defect in a literary text."

当我们讲到它们所想要表现的东西时,但这正是文学作品的一个缺点“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I never really realized that that meant that every living thing really came as an evolutionary development of the first seeds of life."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Well, twenty years ago what it meant to grow up as a Muslim in suburban America was to live a very bifurcated life.

好的，20年前,一位穆斯林在美国市郊成长意味着,他的生活要分成两部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What many people do not know is that it was meant sarcastically, as just the opposite.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

She was meant to remember. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding time among the beasts in a zoo, any death wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

她生来就是为了回忆的，她面临着一种可能性,当她在一个高高的阳台看着玩具街时，当她坐过山车时，当她在动物园里喂野兽时，通过一个小小的手势。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This gift was meant to represent Rand's ideas about capitalism as the most moral economic system.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It's all the money we've got." "The regular price of a divorce in this Court," said the Justice, "is five dollars." He put the bill into the pocket of his coat as if money meant little to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon is with the Brookings Institution in Washington: "You had friends and enemies everywhere on the battlefield, and so that,for the most part, meant that if you got into trouble as a westerner you had potential help not too far away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Because Albert Einstein, who I had on my wall,as a undergrad he meant so much to me, not only we both play the violin, the most brilliant mind and intelligence in the 20th century.

我还是大学生的时候，我家墙上有一副爱因斯坦的画像,他对于我来说非常重要，不仅因为我们都拉小提琴，20世纪最聪明最有智慧的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选