An examination of Raptorex and its meaning to dinosaur development appeared recently on the Internet version of "Science" magazine.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

We can't possibly know what the author meant except on the basis of our determination of the meaning of the text, so why not just focus our attention to meaning on the text?

我们无法知道作者是什么意思,除非以我们对文本意思的分析为基础，因此，为什么不仅仅将我们的注意力,集中在文本的意思上呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.

其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says the president began to think seriously about the meaning of life after Willie died in eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

He wrote a long and detailed history of Britain, attempting to create the meaning of that little island that he always assumed was God's chosen nation.

他写了一部长而具体的英国史，试图论证这座小岛的重大意义,他一直相信英国是上帝所选的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Fairey's designs change the meaning of the Russian propagandist style by applying it to the costly shopping goods of capitalism.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And he took leave of him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

便在那里跟雅各告别，雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说，“我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Perhaps they did this after expressing hope that they could play ball with each other,meaning that they could learn to cooperate.

VOA: special.2010.08.22

Be careful, and this is going to be especially complicated and confusing when we get to quantities that have a more obscure meaning like entropy.

大家要小心，如果需要测量的物理量,如熵，没有很明确的意义,那么着可能变得很复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But the popular meaning of Valentine's Day continues to capture hearts around the world, even if not always on February fourteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

I'll give the word the meaning I intend it to mean.

我说的话就是必须表达我的意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But writers can use any other words they need to report a story if the meaning is clear.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Having a sense of meaning and being able to express through their music.

对意义有所理解,能够通过他们的音乐去表达情感。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Now, egocentrism has a meaning in common English which means to be selfish.

自我中心这个词在如今的日常英语里,是自私的意思

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

These structures combine elements of nature such as earth and water with written language to express meaning.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This information about the spleen brings new meaning to a report published in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The one that does is called the sense strand and the other one is called the anti-sense strand, anti meaning it's the compliment and it will hybridize to the sense.

能够进行编码的一条链叫做正义链,另一条则叫做反义链,反义的意思是它与正义链互补,并能够与之杂交

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It helped give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Jump$tart's Executive Director Laura Levine says many young people misuse credit cards without meaning to.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

If I shoot to the left and there's no probability of the goalie diving to the right, which means that they dive to the left, then my payoff is 4, meaning I score 40% of the time.

如果我从左路射门,而门将不会去扑向右路,也就是说他会扑向左路,此时我的收益是4,也就是说我进球的概率是40%

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Yet writers recognize that it is impossible to put human meaning in such a place.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

So in any case, hermeneutics is devoted to the discovery of meaning and the art that it's concerned with is the art of interpretation.

所以解释学注重研究内容,并且将它和语言的应用相联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So smart that it was said they could sell wooden, meaning false,nutmegs to strangers.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

The question is not so much how we control what happens to us but what do we do when we were faced difficult circumstances, and how we can make spiritual meaning even when difficult things happen to us.

问题不是我们能够掌控多少,而是当我们面对困境,能做些什么，我们怎样体现灵性的意义,即便我们面临困境。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You can adapt it for any sort of possible purpose, but the crucial thing is to keep the distinction between meaning and significance clear."

你可以为任何目的将其改编，但重要的是你必须,将意思和意义分清楚“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选