And speaking of mountains, Alaska has more than seventy volcanoes that are potentially active, meaning that someday they could erupt.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Hermeneutics is, well, more or less by nature and by definition, interested in meaning.

解释学从定义来看，注重事物的含义。

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meaning they owe more than their home is worth.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

I think it might actually be the more obvious meaning, which is "to hinder" or "to preclude."

我认为那可能是更容易理解的意思，“阻碍“或“妨碍“

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Since last year, four more states reported adult obesity rates of more than 30 percent - meaning that at least 30 percent of their populations are obese.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Be careful, and this is going to be especially complicated and confusing when we get to quantities that have a more obscure meaning like entropy.

大家要小心，如果需要测量的物理量,如熵，没有很明确的意义,那么着可能变得很复杂。

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Often what you'll see is not a table based on this definition, but something that's called the Pauling definition of electronegativity, but it's exactly the same idea and the same trend as this more numerical way to think about what the meaning of electronegativity is.

通常你看到的表格一般都不是基于这种定义的，而是基于,鲍林定义的电负性，但在意义上是相同的，并且满足同样的周期性规律,当和这种这种更数值化地理解电负性的定义,作对比时。

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To know history, put on the god's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces.

懂得历史，把上帝之智与力结合，才能接近历史的真实意义，否则只是受过历史的影响而已，被动无力地承受着历史的影响。

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Once again you see that hermeneutics enters a field when the meaning of something becomes more important and when that meaning is recognized to be difficult to grasp.

你们再次看到诠释学,进入这样一个领域,意义的理解很重要，也很难把握。

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