That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

That means the force you're applying is cancelled by another force, which has got to be the force of friction.

意味着你施加在物体上的力被另一个力抵消了,这个力就是摩擦力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Or Augustus--he had taken the title Augustus by this time, which means "the great"--he himself said, "I transferred the Republic from my power to the dominion of the Senate and the people of Rome."

或者奥古斯都。。。当时他已经使用了这个头衔，意思是“尊崇“，他说，“我已将共和国重还给,元老院及罗马人民统治“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So this is a little bit negative and this is a little bit positive, which means I could model this by drawing a dipole. This is a dipole.

这边带一点负电,这边带一点正电，这意味着我能把它表示,成一个偶极。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

There's no story by means of which he emerges from some other realm.

也没有故事说明他是来自于异国。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and poses an answer which is by no means straightforward and simple.

而给出的回答也绝不是简单直接的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

The sovereign is described by Hobbes as an artificial person by which he means the sovereign is the creation of the contract or the covenant that brought this office into being.

霍布斯把君主描述为一个,现今意义上的法人,也就是说君主的权力,是由某种意义上的合同,或说是契约而形成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, think what's at stake here in this worldview, especially as we transition next Thursday to a developing though by no means unanimous or homogenous northern worldview in which reform impulses get embedded.

想想在这种世界观中最薄弱的是什么,特别是我们下周四要过渡到,一个发展中的并非统一或同质的,嵌入了改革的冲动的北方世界观

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In our consideration of Genesis 1 and 2, We first need to consider a Babylonian epic, an epic that is known Enuma elish By its opening words at the top of the column over there, Enuma Elish, which means "when on high," the opening words of this epic.

在我们学习《创世纪》第一章和第二章时，我们首先要了解一部巴比伦史诗,它因开篇第一句被人们所知，它的意思是，当在天国时，这就是开篇的话。

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