I mean the crowd seems to be into it. Even just people at the bar are cheering for big shots."

VOA: special.2010.06.25

How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?

我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So it's harder and... But I mean, exams themselves are not much harder than what I expected them to be.

所以这难一点……但是考试本身没有比我想象的难多少。

来自西班牙的留学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Daphne is supposed to be seen as one of those moms who mean well even if they make their kids crazy.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

No, I mean the responsibility of art, I think, to try to be equal to the world.

因为我认为艺术的责任，是与世界相媲美。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There should be no apostrophe because what you mean is that the decision belongs to the group.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

I mean buy could actually be a negative indicator that this is probably not of interest to the user.

我的意思是购物可能是一个负面暗示,暗示用户对这些不是很有兴趣。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

However,sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

It'll allow you to tackle interesting problems I'll have you to write from scratch, but it does mean that this skill here is going to be really valuable.

它会让你处理有趣的问题,我会让你绞尽脑汁的编写，但是这一点意味着,这个技能非常宝贵。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The stirring of this intense debate has to do with what does it mean to be a successful parent and what does it mean to be a successful child?"

VOA: special.2011.02.17

When people say everyone dies alone, they don't mean to be saying you die, but not in the presence of others.

当人们说大家都孤独而死，他们不是说你死亡的时候，身边没有他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Yeah,it has to be South African." "I mean,we've got so many talented South African singers who can actually pull it off.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It doesn't mean it's going to be easy. But,I think it can be over the period of time that we're talking about."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

This does not mean it is a class you wish to be taught, nor does it mean that it is the right class for you.

可能这门课并不是你希望的那样，也可能并不适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That's the whole thing about being a kook,I mean, being willing to be a beginner, make a fool out of oneself once in a while."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

What I mean by this is it's possible, of course, to be afraid of a person, but unlike an emotion like gratitude, it's not intrinsically social.

我这么说是想表明这是可能得，当然，人害怕时，不像感激时，不是社会固有的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I mean Speakers of the House tend to be, they are obviously important figures, but they tend not to be extraordinarily well-know across the country.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

So that would mean that the Fed should be raising interest rates to try to tighten up the economy and bring the inflation rate down.

所以，这意味着,美联储应该提升利率,以试图加强经济,并且将通货膨胀率降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So what does it mean to be French today? President Nicolas Sarkozy has tapped another French staple the love of debate to launch a three-month, national conversation on the subject.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

And what does it mean to be an American in this novel? So, that's the question I'd like to take up today first. Coming from Lolita, the vision of America in On the Road looks quite different.

这对于小说里你是一个美国人又意味着什么？,这是我今天想让你们思考的第一个问题，《洛丽塔》里，描写的美国景象非常不同于《在路上》之中的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Of course,the visit to Libya, I mean everything with Libya is always rather unique and peculiar, but that might be Libya-specific, and I am sure that Gadhafi would have welcomed Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Now, what did it mean to be an absolute ruler?

那么绝对统治者到底意味着什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In the spring and summer,he says, he would expect the prevailing winds in Western Europe to come from the West or Southwest - which would mean that the ash would be pushed towards the Arctic or Siberia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Well, the figure I saw last was a number too small to be mentioned; I mean, to say you just can't really say how much it is, but all right, two percent.

这个数字简直,小的可忽略了,我的意思是说你实在说不出精确地数字,但实际上只有2%左右

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We've got a lot of constants in this solution to the hydrogen atom, and we know what most of these mean. But remember that this whole term in green here is what is going to be equal to that binding energy between the nucleus of a hydrogen atom and the electron.

在这个解中有很多常数,其中大部分我们,都知道它们代表的意思,但记住是这整个绿色的部分,等于核子和电子的结合能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And, I mean, for example in France-- and if this ever disappears I'm going to be one unhappy guy--the license plates, the last numbers of the license plate tells you where people are from.

我的意思是,举例来说,在法国,如果这件事取消的话,我就会十分不高兴的,它就是汽车牌照,牌照上的最后几位数告诉你,这个人来自哪里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

More specifically, what does it mean to say that an individual can be seen ? as magnified in his or her country, or that one's country is simply the collective expression of certain individual traits of character?

更确切地说，如果我们提到一个人,可以被视为是其国家的放大镜,那意谓着什么，或是某人的国家,就是特定,个人特征的集体呈现？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选