Throwing cold water also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposals.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And so, I don't think I really need a special method to come up with ideas.

所以，我想我不用什么特殊的方法也能想出一些好的点子。

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I began with their ideas of Japan and what did they know, because I knew that they knew very little.

我先让他们写了对日本的看法,和了解多少，因为我知道他们的知识很有限。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The final Earth Day themed event took place Sunday. The Environmental Protection Agency, students and other organizations with ideas for a more sustainable future filled large white tents on the mall.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

And there's some other ideas like that where we step back and really try to understand these investors and hopefully partners with entrepreneurs.

还有些其他观点，比如我们应该如何,退一步来真正试着去理解这些投资者,然后充满希望地与企业家合作。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

He apparently did not feel at ease playing with a big band, even one that followed his own musical ideas.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

It was a new idea that broke with the ideas of its neighbors, and those people were the Israelites.

他们的新观点使他们在当时，格格不入，他们是犹太人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But officials are fishing for ideas about what to do with all those fish, which could get pretty smelly.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

And it just gonna be... I really look forward to having someone who I can keep speaking to, keep learning from, and keep sharing my ideas with, and keep having that open, just an open door.

将会是，我非常期待,能够有一个像他这样可以一直聊天，一直学习，分享我们的看法，一直可以对他敞开心门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And among the conversations I had with my Chinese colleagues was the very close relationship between Dewey's ideas and those of Confucius.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The magazine, in many ways, announced and facilitated Eliot's rise to a kind of cultural authority as a taste maker, and with it certain ideas of modernism.

在很多方面，这本杂志宣告并且促进了艾略特的崭露头角,把他上升为一个测定文化品位的权威人士，同时也预示了杂志本身关于现代主义的一些思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

With its publication, Darwin gained important supporters like Thomas Huxley who were willing to defend his ideas.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

If they're paid by commission on each trade they just keep calling you up and coming up with new ideas for new trades.

如果他们的薪水来自交易中抽取的佣金,他们就会不断拜访你,告诉你一些关于新交易的新点子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Americans were not the only ones who identified with the ideas in the play.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

I'm not aware that any other culture that had city states had ideas of this kind that helped make explain why one was associated with it and cared about it.

我没有发现,其他城市国家的文化中存在一种思想,能够解释,为什么人与城邦关联并为其服务

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The report offers some ideas for dealing with obesity within government health care reforms.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

So, I want to contrast that with another concept that seemed to be opposing ideas, and that is thinking about not how far away the most probable radius is, but thinking about how close an electron can get to the nucleus if it's actually in that orbital.

我要将它和另外一个,看起来相反的概念相比较，我们不是考虑,最可能半径离原子核有多远，而是考虑如果电子在那个轨道上,能多接近原子核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A person with strange ideas might be described as out in left field.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

But it turns out that with this language we glimpsed on Wednesday, you can do the step so much more easily and yet the ideas are identical to what we're gonna explore at a lower level in the weeks to come.

实际上，通过在周三,学习的Scratch语言，你可以更容易地做这步,思路和今后几个星期,我们将探讨的是相同的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

She writes down her ideas with a pencil in a music notebook.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

when I was in law school... I'm always coming up with the ideas, other people think they're crazy.

我在上法学院的时候……我总会想出一些别人认为很疯狂的主意。

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I also worked with a group of lay Buddhists who like Dewey's work very much because it is very comfortable with some of the ideas of Mahayana Buddhism."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

and have everyone come up with different ideas, and then you can bounce ideas off each other and

每个人都能提出不同的想法，你们可以互相讨论各自的观点，

要做好角色分担 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This time, members of Congress met with Tyler to get his ideas.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

And too many companies can actually hang on for almost too long with too much money because there has been so much money funding these ideas.

而太多公司吊死在投资这棵树上了,浪费了大量时间和金钱,因为投入的金钱实在是过于多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Voters had rejected candidates with extremist ideas and elected moderates instead.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

You should be able to come up with two pretty good ideas here, two pretty good answers.

你应该能说出两种不错的想法,两种不错的想法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Also,artists and fans can communicate with each other and exchange ideas.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Also that person should watch the movie beforehand and then coming with any ideas.

当然该同学必须提前看那部电影,然后过来上课时准备一些想法。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But he also obviously writes that we are beings with will and purpose who are uniquely guided by opinions, ideas, and doctrines and it is in many ways the first business of the sovereign to act as a moral reformer of ideas.

但他同时也写道,我们是有意志和目标的生物,是唯一由言论，思想和各种学说，所引导的物种,而这正是给君主作为思想道德改造者,的存在提供了可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选