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

VOA: special.2010.05.27

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

Many of you've probably read this, come across this, but I think this captures so well the foundation of what it means to be actively accepting.

很多同学可能读到过这首诗，听说过这首诗，它非常好地阐述了,主动接受含义的基础。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

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

"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

This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

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

"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

It means the greatest, the strongest, the ablest, the most admired. That is what you want to be.

而是说成为最伟大,最强壮,最能干,最受尊敬的人,这才是你该成为的人"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

So we have four choices in terms of initial and final energy levels, and also what it means - in terms of the electron -- whether it's gaining energy or whether it's going to be emitting energy?

我们有这四个选项,各有不同的初始能量和末能量,它都是按照电子来说的,不管是失去能量还是得到能量？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That's what it means to really be chosen.

才能保证“我是上帝的选民“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What it means is I don't want to take unique time that we could be discussing other things in class by covering things that you could have read already.

这只说明我不想在课上单独花时间,来讲你们可能已经看过的东西,这个时间可以用来讨论其他内容

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

But it's a philosophy class, and what that means is that the set of topics that we're going to be talking about in this class are not identical to the topics that other classes on death might try to cover.

但是它是一门哲学课，这就意味着,我们在这门课上要讨论的一系列问题,和其他讲死亡的课上讨论的问题,是不一样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So that it's not what the text means -which might be anything, according to Hirsch, if you just appeal to the text; it's what the author means to say.

所以不是文本的意思，而是作者想说的东西,赫施认为，文本的意思几乎可以是任何东西，如果你仅仅参考文本的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Trying to understand, not just on the cognitive level of the research, but also to experience on the visceral emotional level, what it really means to give ourselves the permission to be human.

希望你们理解，不只是在研究的认知层面上，还要在内心情感层面上去体会，准许自己为人的真正含义。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This should make sense because if something has a low ionization energy, that means it's not very electronegative, which means it's going to be a lot happier giving up electron density, which is essentially what you're doing -- when you're forming covalent bonds is you're sharing some of your electron density.

这应该是合理的,因为如果某物的电离能很低，这也就意味着它的电负性也不高，那么它就会更愿意,放弃一定的电子密度，而本质上这正是你在,形成共价键时所需要做的,分享你的一些电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It just means a physical place, and what it appears to be is the citadel, the fortress that was the center of the towns that grew up after the Bronze Age, after the collapse of the Mycenaean world.

它只是一个物理上的地名,它看上去像城堡,要塞,是在青铜时代完结,迈锡尼世界崩塌之后,所建立的城镇的中心

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now students have had an experience of working with you and having an experience of what it means to go to adult and be taken seriously. And that's what some of the students at your party were saying is that with Vice President Dickerson, if you go there, you feel heard.

现在学生们有了和您工作的经历,也体验到了成为成年人的意义,他们受到了认真的对待，就像,一些学生在您办的聚会上说的,你会觉得Dickerson副校长在倾听你。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选