It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

What is the heart but a spring, ?" or reason but a means of calculating pleasures and pains."

除了跳动，心脏又为何物，除了感觉愉快和痛苦，人为什么而活“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And, in fact there's a technique of analysis used today that's called Rutherford back scattering where people actually saw that this is a means of identifying the substance, the sample.

事实上这是现在用的一种分析技术,称作卢瑟福背散射,就是人们实际上看到的那样,这是鉴别物质样品的一种方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now, in contrast to the land, God's sanctuary can be purified for moral impurity by means of a special sacrifice.

与土地对比，上帝的圣所倒是可以通过一些特殊的献祭,净化道德上的不洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So when we talk about a cohort study, this means taking a group of people and following them over time.

所以当我们提到定群研究,就意味着,有一群人参加实验并需一直追踪下去

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 term means it was a sixty-day Treasury bill; that means it pays not $100, it would start at $10,000.

期限表示这是六十天期国库券,票面不是100美元,而至少一万美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, similarly in a case where instead we have a small energy difference, we're going to have a low frequency, which means that we're going to have a long wavelength here.

在这个例子里,能量差较小,我们得到的频率低,这意味这它的波长更长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The reason for inexact doesn't mean it's a crummy measurement, t means that it's path dependent, and so the value of this integral depends on how you get from one to two.

这是因为它是,与积分路径有关的，因此这里的积分值，取决于从一端到二端的,具体路径。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The beauty of that is now we have discovered a notion of what it means to multiply a vector by a number.

现在最美妙的就是我们就已经知道,数字乘以矢量的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And we'll see what that means in a moment, and it's just because they mean different things.

等下我们会明白它的意思，这只是,因为他们有着不同的含义。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And use a whole array of means: diplomacy, alliances letting other countries do things instead of us.

我们可以通过很多方式解决问题：,建立外交关系，建立联盟,让别的国家也参与,而并非事事亲力亲为。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And those words mean different things: immunogenic means that it stimulates your immune system for a response; pathogenic means that it causes a disease.

这两个词有不同的意义,免疫效应是指,刺激免疫系统产生免疫应答,致病性意指它能使你患病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选