He really wanted myself and all of us who participated in the program to get our degrees and learn what it meant to be a good citizen and to be good parents and husbands and responsible human beings.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Well, twenty years ago what it meant to grow up as a Muslim in suburban America was to live a very bifurcated life.

好的，20年前,一位穆斯林在美国市郊成长意味着,他的生活要分成两部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

in my description of what it meant to have the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

之前我描述有效率市场假说的时候,对你们说了些假话。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Now I would like to read to you from the footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, that for many people embodied at the time what it meant to be engaged in this new literary project.

现在我再给你们读一段《嚎叫》的脚注，这是艾伦金斯堡的著名诗歌，对于很多当时的人来说,参与这项新文学事业意义深远。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I used to have a lot of expectations about what that meant and what it was for.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

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

"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

I think it's people talking without giving a moment's thought to what they meant when they said it.

我觉得人们在这么说的时候,并没有好好地思考过。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It made its backers rich. Financiers in the Washington,D.C., area also knew what canals meant to cities like Venice in Italy and Tsaritsyn - later called Stalingrad and Volgograd - in Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

We're going to look at what it meant in the first century.

而是着眼于它在公元一世纪的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"If I could get done what I think needs to get done in four years, even if it meant that I was only president for four years, I would rather be a good president taking on the tough issues for four years, than a mediocre president for eight years,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

"When the request came through for us to consider re-forming to play, we felt that the immense scale of what had happened in Victoria and the really necessary kind of giving from other quarters to help people meant that it was something we should take very,very seriously,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.14