Do you like it or would you prefer something shorter? A shorter name would be more convenient on a sign.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

But something that tugs at an idea or a feeling that you really can't define or name, that is timeless.

但那些激发你某种莫名的想法或感觉的东西，却是永恒的。

关于现代美术 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The heroine of the mask, as you know, doesn't seem to have a Christian name. She's not Britney or Lindsay.

你们也知道《面具》里的女主角，似乎没有教名，她不是布兰妮或林赛。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When a bone is broken in more than two places or gets crushed, the name for it is a comminuted fracture.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

And the reasons for this coupling of the name Milton and of this idea or the metaphor of power, I think, are worth looking in to.

我认为，人们之所以将米尔顿这个名字,与力量这个概念配对的原因是值得研究的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Deny thy father and refuse they name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." She's a Capulet.

否认你的父亲，抛弃你的姓名吧，也许你不愿意这样做，只要你宣誓做我的爱人，我也不愿再姓凯普莱特了，她姓凯普莱特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Sometimes a difference in spelling can identify whether the person with the name is male or female.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It's a state function, so we're at constant temperature and pressure, and now we want to consider some chemical change or a phase transition or you name it.

这就是态函数，我们处于恒定的温度和压强之下，然后考虑某些化学变化或者相变,或者你想考虑的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Almost any time of day, you can see people looking for the name of a family member or friend who died in the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Now, for those of you who took Economics 115 or equivalent, what is the name of this line I've just drawn?

我来问一下学过经济学115的同学,这条曲线叫什么名字

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Katherine Cole has more. Call it a crash-landing, a ditching, a splash-down, or a nicer name.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

I'm not going to name any company or industries, because they're all our customers and they'd be upset.

我在这里就不说它们的名字了，因为它们都是我们的客户，都会因此而沮丧。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

They gave a name to this mysterious continent: Terra Australis Incognita, or the "Unknown Southern Land."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Because I was taught good style, I'm giving that variable a name that conjures up the idea of its role, which is thankful or not.

因为我们学习了好的格式风格，我将给那个变量起一个,能使我们联想到它的角色作用，它是满意的或不满意的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So we took my mother's name and her name. "He is a third so,and I didn't like Trip or Tre, so Tres had it.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

He didn't sign into a hotel as Peter the Great or whatever, but he would go in with a name that wasn't his.

他在酒店登记时不会签彼得大帝之类的名字,而是用一个假名来代替

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

At first, they forget simple things, like where they put something or a person's name.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

We can easily imagine a world in which I don't have the last name Kagan or perhaps to switch it around, Shelly's not my name.

我们可以容易地想象一个世界里,我不姓卡根或者,反过来,我不叫薛立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Let's see if I can name a few off the cuff, or without any preparation.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

And when I create a binding, x I'm taking a variable name, in this case x, stored somewhere in a table, and I'm creating a link or a pointer from that name to that value.

当我创建一个绑定的时候，我有一个变量的名字，在这个例子中是，存在一个表中的某处，然后创建一个连接,或者指针从这个名字指向目标值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He did not care how his name was spelled: with or without a "u."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

It's like you have a social security number or other ID number, which positively--there might be another person with the same name as you, God forbid, but you at least have your own number, which is guaranteed to be unique to you.

就好比社保号,或者其他身份号码,很有可能,有另外一个人,和你重名,希望这不要发生,但你至少有唯一的识别号,用于区分自己和他人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

A lot of journals do blind reviewing now because of the evidence I talked about before regarding sexual stereotypes, that whether it has a male name or a female name makes a difference. So those are not-- those are group level in that they're not saying, "You get rid of your prejudices by trying harder."

现在很多报刊都审查论文都是匿名的,原因就是我刚才讲的,性别刻板印象，名字会透露作者是男性或女性,这样会影响审查公正，所以…,这些群体要摆脱刻板印象，并不是一味压抑就行的“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The many areas of hardened or scar tissue give the disease its name.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

you put your name into a, you know, like a bucket or a spin wheel

你把你的名字放进一个像桶一样的东西或者滚筒里，

实惠的歌舞剧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But many women now add their husband's name or keep their own name.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

Science, or what Hobbes simply calls " by the name "reason," is simply the fullest expression of human artfulness.

科学，或是霍布斯把它称作的,“理性“,正是人类艺术性的完整表达。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So he begins here: Rookslive in a crowd and are mainly vegetarian; Crow may be either another name for rook, especially when seen alone, or it may mean the solitary Carrion crow.

所以他开头这样写道：,白嘴鸦过着群居的生活，它们大部分是素食者;,单独看的时候，乌鸦也能做白嘴鸦的别名，或者乌鸦就是指独居的吃腐肉的乌鸦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选