So it is not surprising that top is part of another expression that describes an important person.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It's not so important that you know which sugars fall under each of these categories, but it is important to know that there are different categories of sugars.

分清哪些糖属于哪个种类,对你们来说并不重要,但是知道糖有不同种类却很重要

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, it's very important to realize that these family farmers, who are successful, do not necessarily lead to democracy.

所以,我们要正确地认识到,这些富有的农场主,并非会带来共和之火

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

(Speech) He says it is important to stabilize finances but the government is not in a position to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The important point here is it's not just a probability, it's a density, so we know that it's a probability divided by volume.

它不是概率,而是概率密度，所以我们知道，它是密，除以体积，我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Still,not everyone here is convinced that American missile defense is so important.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

So it was very important that we keep the motivation high so that they were not in the compassion of time and the requirement set for very high-stress jobs climbs under the way.

使这一动机足够强烈,是十分重要的,这样不会过分在乎时间,高压力工作带来的要求,也就不那么重要了。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Crowley said the fact that diplomatic note from Tehran did not address concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions is one reason why an exploratory meeting with the Iranians is so important.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

So this application is not as important as soccer, but it's a bit more Economicsy, so I can justify it under the Economics title of the class.

虽然接下来的案例不如足球那么重要,不过它们都是经济学案例,所以我们可以用经济学的知识来解读

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So this is only important, good to know,important to know, but not enough.

这是很重要的，知道很好，知道很重要，但不够。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The final piece of advice, this is very important so please pay attention to this, which is, I ask you not to talk to your neighbors during lecture.

最后一点建议,很重要,请注意听好,我要求你们,上课的时候,请不要和你的周围的同学说话

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Finally, literary theory asks one other important question it asks many, but this is the way at least I'm organizing it for today it asks one other important question, the one with which we will actually begin: not so much "What is a reader?" but "How does reading get done?"

最后，文学理论给人们提出其它重要的问题,它提出许多问题，但我今天是这样组织的,它提出一个重要的问题，也就是我们今天开始要提出的问题：,不是“读者是谁“而是“阅读是如何开展的？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Transplants require donors, and the donor organ is usually not at the same physical location that the recipient is and so jets like this one have become very important in connecting donors to recipients.

移植手术需要供体器官,而供体和受体,往往在不同地方,这就需要一架飞机,将器官由供体所在地送到受体所在地

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Because I'm going to assume, I'm gonna take it that it's important to you, that you not be tortured. So by seeing who you want to keep safe, this will help you see which one you think is you.

因为我想,找出你们觉得对你们而言重要的,人物，你们想保护的人物,这样就能帮助你们,找到自己所支持的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Most people in America would get enough protein if they're eating a healthy, balanced diet, and wouldn't have to pay so much attention to protein in particular, but not everybody is getting a healthy balanced diet, so it is important for people to pay attention to this.

大部分美国人只要饮食健康平衡,蛋白质的摄取量都是足够的,不需要对蛋白质特别关注,但并不是每个人的饮食都那么健康而平衡,所以关注蛋白质的摄入量还是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

so it's important to note that it's not in b, now we're talking about b plus, because we've already taken an electron out here.

其中有一个非常重要的地方需要注意，不是硼，而是正一价硼离子，因为我们已经拿走了一个电子了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some of them only go so far as Athens, which had the good fortune somehow of not being destroyed, one of the few important Mycenaean places that is not destroyed.

有些人逃到了雅典,很幸运的是雅典并没有遭到破坏,它是极少数逃过一劫的迈锡尼重要城邦之一

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, not all Mycenaean sites are so far from the sea; some of them are closer, but what it's important to say is that none of them are right on the sea.

不是所有迈锡尼文明遗址都离海这样远,有些距海近些,但重点是,它们没有一个在海边

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I do want to talk about one important subject which you might not have thought too much about and that's lipids, because lipids are so important to the structure of the body because they make up the membranes that form the cells that are the fundamental units.

我的确想要讨论一个重要的主题,这个主题也许你们都没有深入思考过,那就是关于脂类的问题,脂类对身体结构形成十分重要,它是组成细胞膜的基本单位,而细胞膜能够维持细胞形态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Then we'll talk about engineering of DNA and why this has been such - not only a rapidly growing and advancing area but one that's so important for Biomedical Engineering.

然后我们会谈论DNA工程,以及为何它不仅,是一个向前飞速发展的领域,而且对生物医学工程十分的重要

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选