Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Then, once you've done that, once you have secured the integrity and accuracy of the meaning, Hirsch says, "Okay, fine.

在你完成那个之后，一旦你确定了意思的真实性和准确性，赫施说，好的，不错。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We no longer appeal, in other words, to the authority of the author as the source of the meaning that we find in the text.

换言之，我们也不会再诉求作者的权威,把它作为我们在原文中找到的原意。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the popular meaning of Valentine's Day continues to capture hearts around the world, even if not always on February fourteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She has studied the social meaning of American Sign Language as well as the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language in Israel.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

The optimates, meaning "the best," tended to support the interests of the wealthy senators and the few wealthiest families.

贵族派，是指精英“,主张保护元老院议员的利益,以及少数富裕家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He says the president began to think seriously about the meaning of life after Willie died in eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Here, the cloud becomes the obscuring of this sense of intent to communicate or a sense of meaning's pattern.

在这里，试图沟通,或者说意图形式的,感觉变得模糊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

An examination of Raptorex and its meaning to dinosaur development appeared recently on the Internet version of "Science" magazine.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

On the other hand, a Protestant distaste for priest-centered cultic ritual colors scholarly accounts of the temple, and its meaning for ancient Israelites.

一方面，新教徒不喜欢，以神职人员为中心的,狂热祭祀，就庙宇来说，也有不同的歪曲，以及对犹太人的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

the Thompson is sent with a mission to find out what is the meaning of rosebud ? what was rose then?

汤普森是有任务而去的,他的任务是找出玫瑰花蕾的含义,那么玫瑰又是指什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

这是谈话的特点,这个是我在“割草“中提到的“,镰刀的低语，这就是，一种语调蕴含的意思或者是一种方式的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Reverend Sheen said the young woman had died so that her mother could learn about the meaning of life.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Aristotle, over 2000 years ago, "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, " the whole aim and end of human existence."

二千多年前的亚里斯多德，“快乐是人生的意义和目的，人类存在的最终目标“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Fairey's designs change the meaning of the Russian propagandist style by applying it to the costly shopping goods of capitalism.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The issue was that none of the dots had any meaning whatsoever.

问题是，这些点,都没有任何意义。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Then in preparing for the show, one of the children tells about the true meaning of Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

In the most straightforward natural meaning of the term, we have to say--I think the program that beat the world champion was called Deep Fritz.

从最直接最自然的意义上理解,我们不得不说,我想,那个打败世界冠军的计算机程序叫深弗里茨

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The office said the behavior of the military and the rebels could meet the legal meaning of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

That's one of its meanings and I think it's the meaning that's relevant here.

这是它的一种释义,我认为这个释义在这里是恰当的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Education Report "In loco parentis" is a Latin term meaning "in the place of a parent."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

You want to know, what's the meaning of this piece of code?

你们想知道，这部分代码有什么意义？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Maximum,meaning the most. And ion,which is an atom or group of atoms with an electrical charge.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

That's the meaning of the limit in calculus.

那是微积分学里的极限思想

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But I'm going to present this as an example here because it illustrates so many of the Freudian themes, particularly themes about dreams, the importance of dreams, about repression and about hidden meaning.

但我之所以要举出这个例子,是因为它展示了大量精神分析理论的主题，特别是关于梦境，梦的重要性，梦的压抑及其隐含意义这样的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选