Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

It's only what it means to write a poetry of passion that Yeats is now beginning to rethink.

叶芝只是重新开始思考,写作关于激情的诗意味着什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

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

Ella wants to know what it means to "eighty-six" something.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

So why don't you talk about the experience that you had in Israel and also a little bit about what it means to be an Orthodox Jew for those people who don't know maybe the difference between reform and conservative Orthodox.

那何不讲讲你,在以色列的经历,再讲讲,什么是犹太教正统派,向那些可能不知道,改革以及保守正统派的区别的人解释一下。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Europe,which is going to erase these license plates and are going to take away part of what it means to live in France.

欧洲,想要清除这些国别特征,并想抹消属于法国的那部分

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Storylines often touched on matters of fate,destiny, spirituality,the meaning of life, or what it means to be human.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The second is something a little more subtle and that is to find different ways to use technologies to basically stretch the boundaries to What it means to learn at MIT.

大学教育水平,第二件重要的事更微妙些,就是去发现不同方式使用技术来伸展,此对于在麻理学习的意义的界限。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"Voting is particularly important because when we exclude people from voting - we're excluding them from the fundamental act of what it means to be a citizen."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Well, that suggests that you were not using memory correctly and so we'll tease apart today exactly what it means to navigate inside of a computer by way of memory and we'll also touch on over time what are some of the evils that might happen.

嗯，那表示你没有正确地使用内存,我们将详细讨论,怎样操纵计算机的内存,以后，我们还将提及,可能发生的有害的操作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The question is what it means to say something is backed by something because well you could say it's backed by gold because the Fed has eleven billion dollars of gold.

问题在于，说某个东西被另一个东西支持,意味着，你可以说,货币被金子支持着,因为美联储有一百一十亿美元的金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is told by four speakers, each trying to discover what the story means.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

These beliefs form something like a kind of national creed you might say American national creed what it means to be an American and not someone else.

这些信念形成类似,国家纲领的东西，你可以说,像是美国的国家纲领,这意味着身为美国人，而不是其它国人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is time to save what we can and what we must and live within our means once again,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

That's what it means to maximize utility.

这就是所谓功利最大化。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"It really shows you what a treat it really is and what it really means to the United States of America, and how these athletes get one goal four years around.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

So what we're going to see is less shielding, which means that it will actually feel a higher z effective.

那么我们将会看到更少的屏蔽，这意味着将会感受到更大的有效核电量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"But what it means is, if the world is going to grow at the rate it can in the future, the rest of the world is going to have to shift to more domestic sources of growth, investment,and spending,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"We are,as you may expect, encouraged by these results and look forward to undertaking further research to understand what it means, why the vaccine regimen was effective in some volunteers and how we might build upon these results in our collective research,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

It's interesting to think about what's driving that and what it means for our health and for international politics.

到底是什么导致了这些变化以及,这对我们的健康和国际政治意味着什么,这些都值得我们思考

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This is a word we'll be coming back to in about five or six lectures, Talking about what it is to be holy, but right now it essentially means it belongs to God.

我们将会在以后五，六个讲座中回来讨论，在讲到“究竟何为神圣“时，但现在只意味着它属于上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It means anybody using that little function get float doesn't have to worry about what's inside of it. So for example, I decide I want to change the message I print out, I don't have to change the function, I just pass in a different parameter.

这代表着用这个方法去获得浮点数,的任何人都不用担心具体的实现了,例如，如果我想改变下,显示的信息的话，我不必去改变方法，我传个不同的参数就可以了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It says, for example, next to each letter grade what it means.

比方说，每个字母表旁边都注明了含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So that's what it means to call something "canonical."

那就是正典的意思“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You'll see enough things that will confound you, but right now I want to demonstrate a simple paradigm of what it means to know the present and what it means to say this is what the future behavior will be.

你将会发现很多物理问题会让你困扰,而眼下我会举一个例子来阐述,什么叫了解现在,什么又叫预测未来

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选