This idea developed long ago in British common law to define the responsibility of teachers toward their students.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

So in the end,the canon is a list of the winners in the historical debate to define orthodox Christianity.

所以最后，正典书目只是赢家的清单,他们在这场定义东正教的历史争论中胜出。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I'm going to define a class, and in particular, what I'm going to do, is walk through what that says.

我们碰到了一个问题，这个问题就是，我们想要建立，一个抽象数据类型。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now,more cases will be needed to define the legal limits of business method patents.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This is partly because I.C.C.members could not agree on how to define aggression.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

But what counts as respecting my life and respecting my property, that is for governments to decide and to define.

但到底怎样才算对生命和财产的尊重，这是由政府来决定和界定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It was on a bus trip through an Afghan desert that she first encountered the faith that would come to define her spiritualism.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

Well, that may seem to be the most natural way to define death, but it's not an acceptable approach.

这似乎是定义死亡的最自然的方式，但并不是可以接受的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I think we have to define more precisely who we are, what we want, what kind of influence we can exert now in Europe or in the world, ".

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

If the South was a slave society and we tried to demonstrate that last time, we tried to define that.

如果南方是奴隶社会,我们上次已经证明过了,我们也定义过了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Alright, next thing I want to do is to define the vector that plays the role of the number 0.

接下来我想做的是定义一个矢量,它相当于数字0

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

While talk of what success is and how to define it went on in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO colleagues in Brussels that the current operations should be seen as an opportunity to bring moderate Taliban members into the political process.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Pity" and "terror," these become crucial terms, the terms that Aristotle, in his Poetics, used to define tragedy.

遗憾或恐惧“,这是很关键的词，亚里士多德在《诗学》中用它，定义悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

To write the book, Ruth Krauss asked very small children how they would define words like "face," "dog" and "party."

VOA: special.2009.10.05

That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It covers all things that involve the heart and define the effort of man to rise above the mechanical process of life."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

So, what we're going to define is just let's just capture 90% of that electron density.

所以，我们所定义的,只包括百分之九十的电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

We're going to make every effort to define literature as carefully as we can.

我们会尽可能小心地,给文学做出定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

I don't know how to define it exactly, but I feel so incredibly alive.

我不知道怎么样去定义它，但我真的感到真实的存在感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The crux of what this study is all about is that we define a new pathway where the brain talks to fat."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

You guys have been trained by your culture to define what constitutes a food.

大家都在特定的文化熏陶下,知道了什么构成了食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"When you are going three miles a minute, it can be hard to clearly define that."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The problem it solves for the cell is how to do I make a barrier around myself to define what's in me and what's outside of me when most of what's around me and what's in me is water.

它为细胞解决的问题是,当我体外和体内大部分都是水情况下,我怎样在自己周围设置一个界线,来区分什么是体内的,什么是体外的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

It sounds pretty silly, but it's really important because it allows you to define a thermometer and temperature.

这听起来相当白痴，但是它确实很重要,因为它让你可以定义,温度计和温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So, zeroth law, then, allows you to define the concept of temperature and the measurement of temperature through a thermometer.

因此第零定律，使你可以定义温度的概念,以及通过温度计,测量温度的方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选