This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.
VOA: special.2010.06.13
plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.
好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。
It means that you wish or desire to do something.
表示你想要或期望做某事。
That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.
VOA: special.2009.07.12
We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?
换言之,我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它,作者想说的是--,是吧?
This means she will do something for me, if I do something helpful for her in exchange.
VOA: special.2010.01.24
But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.
所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。
That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.
VOA: special.2009.06.28
If something has a high ionization energy, it means that it really, really, really does not want to give up an electron.
如果某个东西有很高的电离能,这意味着它非常非常,非常不愿意失去一个电子。
Something that is on the "fringe" means it is on the edge, outside established boundaries.
VOA: special.2009.08.05
That means it was something I didn't understand. So I'm going to be cautious and systematic.
这就意味着代码中有一些,我没有理解的东西,因此我需要谨慎,并且系统化的去寻找这个错误。
"Piece of cake" is another expression that means something is extremely easy to do.
VOA: special.2009.06.07
To say that somebody does something alone means they do it not in the presence of others.
就是说人孤独而死的意思是,他们死的时候身边没有别人的存在。
This expression means to get to the bottom or most important part of something.
VOA: special.2010.05.16
Knowing what iambic pentameter is, is not a gift of birth, but rather something that comes through a little bit of practice, which means we have to work at it a little bit.
没有谁是生来就知道抑扬五音步格诗,是需要努力才能知道的,这说明我们必须在这个上面花点功夫。
The expression means being afraid to do something you had decided to do.
VOA: special.2009.12.13
I think that part is fine, but behind that you need something to replace what was there When you have peace then you need to bring in stablity that means economic stability as well as security stability You need the police. You need the government. You need the economy.
我认为计划本身是好的,但还需要一些东西来填充以为以前的空缺,和平了,你就需要稳定,经济稳定,安全局势的稳定等,我们需要警察,需要政府,经济也要发展。
This means you will become good at something if you keep doing it.
VOA: special.2009.03.01
He said, "Saed." So we had actually learned the similar word, something Arabic So we learned a word that means happy in Arabic.
他说:“我是Saed“,我恰好,学了一个类似的阿拉伯语词,是阿拉伯语中代表高兴的词。
The expression also means a great show of noisy anger, or something exciting.
VOA: special.2010.07.04
NULL If a get string returns null, that pretty much means something went wrong and there are a few things that could go wrong.
如果GetSting返回,大致上表示的是出错了,这里有几种出错的地方。
Calling something golden means it has great quality and value.
VOA: special.2010.06.06
It means something very special to people.
对人们来说意义非凡。
Ella wants to know what it means to "eighty-six" something.
VOA: special.2010.01.08
Energy means, you know, chemical reactions happen, and you end up with something that might be exothermic, that is, the products are more stable then the reactants.
能量表明,当反应发生之后,你最终会得到放热的产物,换句话说就是产物比反应物更稳定。
It means not getting something that everybody else got.
VOA: special.2009.12.13
Again, easy pass here just means no mountains, we're not talking about something on the New Jersey Turnpike.
强调一下 平坦之途不用翻山越岭,我们说的不是新泽西收费公路
It means the restaurant has sold out of something.
VOA: special.2010.01.08
So, if something is probable you mean that you can trust it and so probability means trustworthiness.
所以,如果有什么是很可能的,说的是你可以信赖它,也就是说,这里的可能性等于可信赖度
And by liberty Hobbes means something that sounds very familiar to us.
霍布斯讲的现代自由,对我们来说应该是再熟悉不过的。
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