Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer and a writer in Maine who has helped popularize the idea of four-season farming.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It's from that story we have the idea that mankind is responsible or has dominion over the animals and the earth.

从这个故事中，我们感到,人类是重要的，人类统领着,其他动物和整个地球。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Who has the authority to say to anyone aside from "This is a good idea."

谁能有指挥他人的权威呢？,人们只能说说这些，像“这是个好主意“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea that water that has fallen over a dam cannot be brought back again.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The idea of risk, that economic risks can be pooled, is an intuitive one that has occurred to people throughout history.

风险理论，即认为经济风险可以分摊，是历史过程中,人们逐渐发现的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

she describes how the economic downturn has made more people open to the idea of swapping.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

Ever since this was first proposed, there has never been any observations that do not coincide with the idea, that did not match the fact that the probability density is equal to the wave function squared.

从未有，任何观测，与它相抵触,从没有过，波函数的平方不等于,概率密度的情况，关于马克思，波恩。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He has called for an outside negotiator to settle the crisis, an idea the government rejects.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

It's a critique of the idea of anything that has a center, one which is at the same time an enabling causal principle.

它是在评论任何事物都有一个中心的想法，与此同时存在一个任意的原理。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Sendak has said that the idea for "Outside Over There" came from a famous kidnapping.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Right. It's a slight lie, it doesn't have all possible values, but you get the idea. It has, if you like, intellectually, all possible values.

我撒了个小谎，这个空间并没有包含所有的可能的值，你们懂的，理性点说，如果你喜欢，我这么说的话，它包括了所有可能的值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But the administration has not supported the idea of a temporary suspension of all foreclosures.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

Secondly, he had sons. Now, this has to do with the Greek idea about immortality and mortality.

第二,他有儿子,这和希腊人关于,永生和死亡的观念有关

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The idea that observing disorder has an effect on people's behavior is not new.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Recently, incorporating kind of the idea the professor has on the CD-ROM, where you can click on a notebook and you can find out more information.

最近，我正试着实践教授的,另一个想法，通过在笔记本电脑点击,便能获得更多的信息。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

For example, you want to buy a new car, because the old one has some problems But your wife throws cold water on the idea, because a computer costs too much.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

So each electron has a distinct set of quantum numbers, the first important idea.

每个电子的量子数,是不尽不同的，对于这第一个重要观点。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But Secretary Gates, who has served numerous presidents in a 43-year government career, endorsed the idea of asking fundamental questions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"(It comes) from a comic book that has had three lives and wasn't necessarily successful, but I love the idea that it refused to die.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

His son has the bad idea of getting involved in this later, as we shall see.

他的儿子日后很不明智地牵扯在其中,这一点我们后面会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Just a few meters from the door is Riley Hunter, who says he has no idea what he wants to buy, and the line is moving fast.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

The idea that if labor is left free then that common man always has a chance.

这个观点表明如果劳动是自由的,那么平民始终有希望

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that has always interested me and I've liked the idea of trying to portray dreams on film."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Milton explains the preposterous of the idea that he has ever visited a prostitute.

弥尔顿对这个荒谬的说法解释到,他曾经拜访过一个妓女。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That idea has never even been on the table."

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

And the idea is he has economic codependence with these people.

这句话是实质是他和这些人有经济互依性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"It has serious trouble in the sense that those who are wedded to the idea of a permanent global jihad with Somalia as a staging post are now in the driver's seat,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

We'll come back and discuss it more in a second, but before I do, let me mention that the same model, exactly the same idea, has an application in Economics.

我们一会再深入导论这个问题,在此之前,我再来列举一个模型,是经济学里面一个完全类似的模型

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

One has to do with whether utilitarianism adequately respects individual rights or minority rights, and the other has to do with the whole idea of aggregating utility or preferences or values.

一点是关于，功利主义,是否充分尊重个体和少数的权利，另一点是关于,加总功利，或偏好，或价值的看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选