What many people do not know is that it was meant sarcastically, as just the opposite.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

So, that's what is meant by the term, Dark Ages, and that's what does follow the fall of the Mycenaean world.

那么,这就是这个术语的含义,黑暗时代,它紧随着,迈锡尼文明的陨落到来

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

That really wasn't meant to be hard, but what's relevant about this exercise is not the fact that it's hard.

这应该并不难,与此相关的东西,事实上并不难

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

What is really meant by the term defeat, in the parlance of conventional military aims, when facing a shadowy global terrorist network?,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

This is a distinction which is not meant sort of counter-intuitively to suggest that somehow or another, as opposed to what we usually think, writing precedes speech--not at all.

这个区别没有在某种程度上故意地，与我们的直觉相反,暗示，无论如何，与我们通常想的相反,我们通常认为书写是在讲话之前的，完全不是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"When we praise what the Palestinians do on security, it is meant to send a signal that progress is underway, and it is progress toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

So perhaps that's what the claim is meant to be when people say,everybody dies alone.

所以也许人都是孤独而死这个说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, so, the idea of the freeborn Englishperson, Englishman is what they would have said in those days, meant that rights of parliament had to be respected.

当时他们自称为"生而自由的英格兰人",这一称呼就意味着,国王必须尊重议会权力

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

No, what apparently she meant is trustworthy.

不是的,她的意思显然是"值得信赖"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's what I meant. This is called R.

这就是我说的 R

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Now in point of fact, I think that is what he meant.

实际上，我认为他的意思就是这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What this meant is it takes time.

意思就是它需要花很长时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That, my friends, is part of what it meant.

这一点,就是绝对主义的一个特征

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Derrida famously, notoriously, said "there is nothing outside the text," right? What he meant by that, of course, is that there's nothing but text.

德里达著名地，恶名昭彰地，说道，文本之外什么都没有“,是吧，当然，他意思就是说，需要考虑的只有文本。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选