They wanted the roads for their Army, just like the US Interstate system was originally created in case the Army needed to be moved across the country very quickly if the Soviets attacked.

只关注军队用路，就好像美国州际公路系统,原本是为了苏联攻击时,陆军能快速穿越国家而建的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And just like we saw before for the case of entropy in an isolated system, now we have something we can calculate.

就像我们前面看到的,孤立系统的熵一样，现在我们有一些可以计算的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Again, in the context of a specific tissue site, in this case it's the nervous system.

当然又是放在某种组织当中来说,这次是在神经系统

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Once you have registered, if some other slots become available that weren't previously available, I gather you'll be sent some sort of email by the system, in case some other time would be better for you.

一旦你注册了，之前的有些项目,就可用了，系统会用邮件方式向你发送，让你的时间更方便。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, in any case, so language is a system of signs.

所以，语言是一个符号系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选