The problem with that answer is before you say something is scripture, you have to say why is it scripture,for whom is it scripture, and what does that mean?

这个回答的问题在于,在把某样东西定义为圣典前，必须明确为什么，对谁来说是圣典，那是什么意思？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And secondly, it turns out their definition of unwelcome sexual advance was broad enough to include someone being asked out on the date by someone they don't want to go out with.

第二个问题是,受调查人员对性挑逗的定义,十分宽泛,有些人被邀请外出约会,往往是被一些他们不想一起出去的人邀请。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Back to our hypothetical, you know, our initial discussion of Flaming Hot Cheetos: by his definition that would not qualify as food.

再回过头来谈谈我们之前的假定,我们曾讨论过关于火焰辣奇多的问题,按照他的定义,奇多不能算作食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The colon is important It's defining the beginning of a block of instructions. Yes sir.

这个冒号很重要,是因为它定义了,一块指令的开始，有问题么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

To try to answer those questions we would have to look a little bit at what is meant by this new kind of Socratic citizen.

若要回答这些问题,我们必须探讨一下,新型苏格拉底式公民的定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Many of the issues that I raised in talking about defining literature are as relevant for literary criticism as they are for literary theory, and yet we all instinctively know that these are two very different enterprises.

当讨论文学的定义时，我提出的许多问题,对于文学理论和文学评论都同样相关，但我们都知道,它们是两个不同的概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Buthere is the conventional aspect of property, it's a further question what counts as property, how it's defined and what counts as taking property, and that's up to the government.

但财产还有约定俗成的一面，就引出了更进一步的问题,什么才算财产，财产如何定义,且何种行为才算掠夺财产，这是由政府决定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So a lot depends, to answer your question, how one defines autism, and whether one includes Asperger syndrome, which is a limited, a more mild syndrome, as a form of autism.

所以要回答你的问题,就需要看看一个人是如何定义孤独症的,以及一个人是否将,轻微有限的阿斯伯格综合症,看做是孤独症的一种形式

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That's a complicated thing that accountants figure out and accountants find it difficult to define the earnings of a company, but they do something and they come up with a number.

会计们会计算这个复杂的问题,他们还会发现公司收益很难定义,但是他们会想办法,得出一个数字

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These are going to be fairly common-sense definitions, but they're important, and when you get to a problem set, really nailing down what the system is, not more, nor less, in terms of the amount of stuff, that's part of the system, it's going to be often very crucial.

这些是,很常识性的定义，但是很重要，当你要解决问题时，务必要搞清楚系统是什么，它包含多少物质，不能多也不能少，这往往,是非常重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So one of the things I didn't say, it's sort of implicit here, is what is the thing I measuring the size of the problem in?

我有一点没有提及，这有点含蓄，这一点就是我怎么，来度量输入问题的大小呢？,一个数组的大小怎么来定义呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选