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

Well, well and good, but at the same time, if that's the case, and if there is this extraordinary emphasis on the importance of the expression of genius, you can see what's beginning to happen.

很好，但与此同时，如果过于重视那些,天才作家的表达，你可以看到它所引起的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What you could do then, if you could deliver these red colored molecules here is you could stop specifically the expression of this particular gene in these particular cells.

接下来你能做的是,如果你能将这些红色的分子送到这里,就能够特异地阻止,特定细胞中特定基因的表达

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

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

It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

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 words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Literally, return the control from this function, and take the value of the next expression, and return that as the value of the whole computation.

正如字面意义上说的，从这个函数返回，然后取得下一个表达式的值,并把这个值作为整个计算的结果返回。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This powerful form of creative expression usually involves art made outside the limits and rules of official culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

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

Like Helen Martins, outsider artists add new life, imagination and skill to the world of creative expression.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

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

Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The technical expression of that in philosophy is common knowledge, which I can never spell, so I'm going to wing it.

在哲学上叫做共同知识,我不知道拼写对不对,我看一下

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Other experts say the word cheese in this expression was really an incorrect way of saying chief.

VOA: special.2011.05.08

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 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

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 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

In other words, the sacrificial cult was primarily a vehicle for worshipers' expression of a wide range of emotions: joy over the birth of a child, thankfulness for a good harvest and so on.

换句话说，献祭仪式从根本上来说,是表达崇拜者各种各样情感的一个途径：,新生儿带来的喜悦，对好收成的感谢，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.10.17

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

Another common expression, to hold water, is about the strength or weakness of an idea,opinion or argument.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

When we see that, when we look on the web, we see that expression of both a hope for something better that the web seems to represent for them and we see that sense of furious anxiety about what school classroom actually means to these kids.

当我们认真看那些网站的时候，我们看到了这样一种表达,希望更好的生活,仿佛只有网络能够提供给他们,同时我们还看到了那种狂躁不安,困惑于到底学校的课堂对这些孩子们意味什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

It's the quintessential sort of expression of individualism, but it's more than that.

这是对个人主义典型的诠释,但是不止这些

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For example, you hear the expression, ace in the hole, used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Well, there's a formula that's been used by bond traders for hundreds of years and it's a traditional expression, which goes from the discount rate to the price.

这里有个债券交易商,用了上百年的公式,这是个传统表达式,它能用折扣率算得价格

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They do that because they can control the expression of genes.

它们能正确地合成蛋白,是因为它们可以调控基因的表达

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选