In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

which I just did there, -mystring in fact, let me type it in-- mystring, with an equal sign, which is saying, assign or bind to that name the value of the following expression.

也就是这里我做的，实际上，让我输入，然后是个蹬好，意思就是说，把这个名字绑定到,后面表达式的值上去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Another way to say that it's going to be less, so you don't get confused with that the fact this is in the numerator here, there is that negative sign so it's less energy but it's a bigger negative number that gives us that less energy there.

另一个方式去说它将会变得很低实用，你们不用在这里的计算器的事实感到迷惑,这里有一个负号实用，它是更少的能量,但它是一个更大的数字,这里了它给了我们更少的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

An Iranian delegation, including Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazemi, met with Turkish counterparts in Ankara this week, to sign a deal to build a new natural gas pipeline and to increase gas sales to Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

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

But she added that "a period of careful consideration" is necessary in order to determine the best way forward in dealing with North Korea, perhaps a sign that China is not yet ready to support U.N.Security Council action.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Our first review section will be in the week of January--with your teaching fellows-- will be in the week of January twenty-eighth and we're going to have to ask you to sign up with one of the teaching fellows.

我们的第一次复习课,将在一月。。。和助教一起-,将在1月28日所在的那周,我们会叫你们，选择和一个助教合作。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These are some of the implications of no longer being satisfied with the way in which a sign can be understood as a concept to which we attach belatedly a signification, a signifier.

有一些意指已不满足于,符号被理解为概念的方式了,我们就再赋予它们一个含义，一个能指。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选