"In a broader sense we need to empower our tribal communities with the means to determine their own destiny, their livelihood, their own security and above all their dignity and self respect."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

We understand irony only, he means, to the extent to which we are in agreement with the other person.

他的意思是,我们只能在赞同对方观点的程度上,理解讽刺。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

which means that the grownups get to play with all the fun stuff

那意味着成年人可以玩所有好玩的东西，

神奇的博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And the rate of change means it's very difficult for the classical educational programs to keep up with the demand that's out there in the marketplace."

VOA: special.2011.01.24

Now this is perhaps, frankly this is really the reason that people tend to get confused with the new piece of syntax because the * means different things in different contexts.

也许，这就是大家对这个新语法,混淆的原因,因为*的在不同的环境中有不同的意义。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That means,for example, working to improve the city's transportation system with more wheelchair accessible taxis, and providing working elevators for the subways and motorized lifts for buses.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

That's a crucial mistake that we make when we first try to come to terms with what Freud means by "the death wish."

如果我们一开始就试图理解弗洛伊德所谓的,“死亡冲动“就犯了大错误了“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

President Assad noted that dialogue was the best means to end long-standing disputes with Tehran, arguing that any attempt to contain a country ends by strengthening it.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

So, our detection devices are a little bit limited here today, we're actually only going to be using our eyes, so that means that we need to stick with the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

我们今天所有的探测仪器十分有限，实际上我们要用我们的眼睛来观测，这意味着我们只能看到,电磁谱中的可见光区间。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"This means as government working with our social partners, we must strive to improve the quality of life of all our people by providing shelter, basic amenities, education and security."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

So, that means he's got to make his line unless he comes up with some clever trick, the same size as the other guy.

所以,这意味着除非他想出别的好点子,否则他就必须使他那一排的规模,和对方的一样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"There are some in Washington today who seem determined to play the same old partisan politics, working to score political points, even if it means burdening this country with an unsustainable status quo,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

The way you would go about it, if you're a portfolio manager, is you have to come up with estimates of the inputs to these formulas-- that means the expected returns, the standard deviations, and the covariances.

你所要做的，如果你是一个资产经理，你要做的事情就是,对公式里面的一些参数进行估计-,那些参数包括预期收益，标准差，和协方差。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the report, called "Heads in the Sand", the group says a serious decline in the supply of oil coupled with increasing demand and few new projects planned, means the world needs to move away from oil.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

So it's becoming much more sophisticated, much more interesting and the interesting thing about it is that it verifies a lot of the research that has been done to date with far less sophisticated means, such as self-rapport.

手段更成熟，更有趣，有趣的是,它验证了许多至今通过不全面的方法,所完成的研究的正确性，像自我评估。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Sapolin says it also means working with the school system to ensure that children with disabilities receive the same education as their non-disabled peers, and seeing to it that that all public buildings comply with ADA requirements.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Because it means the crisis is presenting them with an opportunity to do things that t be able to do otherwise.

因为这意味着危机让他们,有机会做一些事情,若没有危机的机会是无法做到的，they，wouldn’

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"Our effort here in writing this letter is just urging caution because we're hoping that with the new administration, we will have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means rather than always military confrontation,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So let me challenge you with this: inside of these curly braces where I have put a comment with slash slash -- a "comment" means nothing here gets compiled, it's just for the human to read.

让我用这个来挑战你们：,在这些花括号里面，我通过双斜杠写入了一个注释,-一条“注释“在这里不会被编译,它只是用来我们阅读的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

How do we know that they are not going to keep it all?" The United States and allies France and Russia have supported the IAEA draft deal with Iran as a means to alleviate concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear program to develop atomic weapons covertly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

If we're focused on the work of art in and of itself, on the poem, we obviously in thinking about what it means need to come to terms with three kinds of evidence."

将注意力放在艺术作品本身或者说诗本身上，很显然，如果我们想考虑它所表达的意思的话,我们必须对三种证据作出让步“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Syrians straddle the fence between the order of conservative nations on the one hand and this alliance with Iran on the other and it would make perfect sense for Bashar al-Assad to pose as the mediator with the Iranians, which means: hey,if you folks think I'm bad, think of the Iranians,they're much worse, but I have credit in their bank and I can deal with the Iranians."

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

And the means by which I connect to the so called cloud is with a command line program or GUI program.

连接到所谓的“云“上,方法是一条命令行程序，或GUI程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In other words, what is there--which is a kind of way of talking really has to do with what Gadamer means when he talks also about die Sache, the subject matter.

换句话说，存在,确实和伽达默尔所说的,事情本身有联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It may have to do with the fact that people today don't seem to be as focused on dividends and so that means that companies are more able to reinvest earnings and not pay.

这跟当下人们不再那么,关注股利有关,这意味着公司,可以更多地将收益再投资,而不是支付股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And it turns out that if we have a, for example, for s, a very large z effective or larger z effective than for 2 p, and we plug in a large value here in the numerator, that means we're going to end up with a very large negative number.

结果是如果我们有一个，举例来说对于s一个很大的有效电荷量或者,比2p大的有效电荷量，并且我们将一个较大的值代入计算器，那意味着我们最后会得到,一个非常大的负数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选