The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

VOA: special.2011.05.29

And the terms of the expression change, the parties to the conflict change, the sights change, but the controversy goes on.

也许人们对这种冲突的表述有所改变，利益双方有所改变，文化景观有所改变，但这种争议永远存在。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So problems arise but they're interesting problems, and they are a function, one of the six functions, of the expression "It is raining."

问题就出现在这里，但这是有趣的问题,是六功能中的一个“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

And here, too, it's just a little baby program in that I'm hardcoding the expression 17 divided by 13.

然后这里，这只是一个子程序,在那里面我硬编码了表达式“17除以13“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

It's really amazing that what Newton did in the case of gravity was to find the expression for this.

这一点非常神奇,牛顿在引力方面的研究,只是为了找出这个的表达式

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

What's changing along here is the what's changing along this pathway is the expression pattern of genes in cells.

因此这里改变的是,在这条途径上改变的是,基因表达的模式

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I did not know she was married!" Language expert Webb Garrison tells an interesting story about the expression.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

On the other hand, you know, let's be honest here, we also know the expression, " "Misery loves company."

另一方面，老实说，我们都知道有句话说，“祸不单行“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

If you're stuck, if you're struggling, if you're not certain about something, please ask. We're not mind readers, we can't tell when you're struggling, other than sort of seeing the expression on your face, we need your help in identifying that.

如果你很差，如果你很纠结，如果你不确定某件事情，请问我们，我们不会读心术，我们没法儿看出来你们很纠结，除非能从你们的面部表情看出来，我们需要你们在这件事儿上的配合。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The expression "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

And again even today the expression " "Athenian democracy" connotes an ideal of the most complete form of democratic government that has ever existed.

它是座民主之城，时至今日,“雅典式的民主,仍意味着有史以来,最理想的完整民主政府型态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

What's the expression for that?

它叫什么呀

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The expression was first used in the southern part of the United States to describe the use of force to win an election.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The expression may be used to describe a politician's last campaign, his final attempt to win the cheers and votes of the people.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The driver's expression and his hand stayed exactly the way they were, as if he didn't hear very well.

就像是没怎么听见似的,那个司机的表情和手几乎一动不动，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

And this is just a Newtonian expression of momentum, the product of the mass of the electron times its instant velocity.

这只是牛顿学上关于动量的表达，用电子质量,乘以瞬时速度。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Is Lycidas an appropriate expression of grief over the death of Edward King, and furthermore, ? does it console others for their grief over Edward King's death?

利西达斯》是否恰当的表达出了,对爱德华·金之死的哀悼？，进一步说，它能否抚慰人们为爱德华·金之死的悲痛？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But in the nineteen sixties, the expression rolling stone became famous in the world of rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

So we can now take this expression and rewrite it under the condition of du is equal to zero.

我们利用这个公式,并在du=0的条件下将它重写。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The expression "to bulldoze" also means to make someone helpless, usually by using power or threatening violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

the face being drawn back in a universal expression that every human everywhere would be able to recognize.

用一种普遍的面部表情，脸被后拉,任何地点，任何人都能辨认。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.

很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选