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

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

So what this means is any opportunity you have to speak English, use it.

所以，这就意味着你要抓住一切机会说英语，用英语。

在英语系国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2010.05.27

So if we have a negative change in energy for any reaction as it's written, what that actually means is we're giving off energy as the reaction proceeds.

如果我们像这里写的这样,在任何一个反应过后，得，到的能量变化为负值,这就意味着我们在这个过程中放出了能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And what does that mean? It means I am trained in geology, but with interests in the other planets and Mars in particular."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.10

If you don't have the units, then if you say the answer is 19, then we don't know what it means.

如果没有的话,比如你的答案是十九,那我们就不知道这是什么意思

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

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

To put it differently, in order to know what "Dogs" means, you never had to learn the word "Dogs."

换个说法,为了知道"狗狗们"的意思,你不需要去学"狗狗们"这个词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.01.08

You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.

你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷，我确定你们曾经听说过。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"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

What does that mean? Well, it means that, you know, there's maybe, let's say, that in the next 24 hours it will break down.

这意味着什么 好的,这意味着,就是说,有可能,这个原子会在未来的二十四小时内分裂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Barker says what this means is that it could be weeks before the composition of Britain's future government becomes clear.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

So, by no means is it a part of what we've done in the past.

所以这并不是,我们曾经做过的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

We'll talk about what a calorie is and what it means and how it's measured.

我们还要讲什么是卡路里,其意义所在,以及评估方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

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

But let's see what it means fundamental changes,". The EU ministers' meeting comes ahead of a summit of European leaders at the week's end.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

So, what it means then is that the optimal portfolio should not be the one I show there, but should be one that's very heavily into stocks.

他所想提出的观点是,最佳投资组合并不是我在这讲的那个，而是把大量资金都投资到股票市场中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"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

It's writing everything we know and what it means.

写出我们知道的东西，以及它们的涵义。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"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

You are told what it means.

教会会告诉你它的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"What it means,if you look at what they are really advocating, is basically withdrawing state funding from public services such as schools and police forces, and really just asking people to do more by themselves."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

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

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