"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle, that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

They're two water companies, so they're Poland Spring and Coca-Cola I guess these days, sign this agreement saying that each one's going to produce half monopoly quantity and what's going to go wrong with that agreement?

有两家瓶装水公司,比如说波兰泉和可口可乐,他们签署了协议规定,每家都只生产垄断产量的一半,这个协议有什么问题吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

and he had his hands like this but he didn't have a sign. He was holding it as if he had a sign

他把手伸出，但他没有举牌子。他抬着手仿佛举着牌子一样，

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"And,you know, they think I'm kind of joking when I have them sign this form.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We see this sign on drug stores and whenever we visit a doctor to get an order for medicine.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And human language uses this amazing trick described by Ferdinand de Saussure, the great linguist, as "The arbitrariness of the sign."

人类语言使用这些,被语言学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔,称之为"符号任意性"的神奇把戏

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

I've gone from 1 equilibrium state to another equilibrium state and the equal sign means you go from this state to that state.

从一个平衡态,过渡到了另一个平衡态,等号表示,从这个态到了那个态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"This one is "Variations on K", because this is the word kiss in every language, including sign language.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

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 eighteen ninety-three guidebook called "Modern Etiquette in Public and Private" had this to say: "Long fingers are a sign of refinement.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

It's a good sign that this is logarithmic, and I'm going to come back in a second to why logs are a great thing.

为什么对数级复杂度是个好事情，让我们再来看一个算法,噢，抱歉是让我们再来看两个算法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I thought this would have been a sign of peace anywhere on Earth...

VOA: special.2010.07.17

So this is the equality operator, whereas the single equal sign is the assignment operator.

所以这是相等操作符，然而那个单等号是一个赋值运算符。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They cut this sign in the stones they used for buildings.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

They said, would you sign a contract that if you had this loss the contract would pay you a certain amount of money?

他们是这样说的，你会签署一个合约,上面约定了，当你发生损失,你会得到合约中约定的赔偿金？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"This is not a sign of weakness, but rather one more step on a clearly charted path to Chrysler's revival.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

So this is not a very positive sign and people are having a bad relationship with food.

这不是个正面的信号,人们和食物之间的关系变糟

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"But,it is this television that does not want to sign a contract with the Union and does not want to pay royalties.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

When you go to sign into the class you will get a copy of this.

当你们登记上这门课的时候,你们会得到一份。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But now, counterterrorism research fellow, "This is clearly a sign that the group has become closer to al-Qaida and is looking to attack abroad."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Will you sign up for ten percent of the value of this insurance?"

你愿意付10%的钱作为保险金吗"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Their caskets come through this village and hundreds line the street as a sign of respect.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

This is a sign of divine approval.

这是好运来临的信号。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Despite some of the most challenging economic conditions in decades, American consumer confidence jumped unexpectedly this month, a sign that widespread pessimism might be dissipating.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Is there some sign of this? ?

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

A thousand economists, from leading universities across the country sign a public appeal to congressman and president, not to pass this bill, that it would not do what they said it would do, it would not reduce unemployment, it would in fact lead to retaliation it would make it harder for Americans to sell goods to other countries.

但有数千位经济学家，来自于全国各大院校,向国会和总统公开发出呼吁，不要通过限制进口法案，法案不会奏效，法案不会减少失业，事实上会招致报复,会让美国更难,同别国做交易。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

I differentiate a second time and check the sign, so the second order condition, I differentiate this expression again with respect to q1.

我们对它进行二次求导然后看符号,这个式子的二阶导数,就是一阶导数再对q1进行求导

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选