One definition of biodiversity is the differences of life at all levels of biological organization.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

It's this drive to constant self-definition that becomes the characteristic feature of Milton's work for later generations.

就是这种对自我界定的欲望,变成了弥尔顿留给后人的,作品的典型特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When I call this class definition, it calls init, init and I give it an x and a y value.

我说过，当我们，调用这个类的定义的时候，它会去调用。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That's under your control." Those words later helped him with his own definition of success.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The record is clear. Identity politics is at the core of Judge Sotomayor's self-definition."

VOA: special.2009.07.18

It's kind of like religion by definition is a communal activity and so as what you're trying to do is a lot of... building skills among groups.

可能宗教本身,就是种集体性的活动，你们所做的,也就是培养集体生活的技能。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The same dictionary also says another former definition of eighty-six was undesirable customer.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

So, in this definition now, we have one term which we know.

好，在这个定义中，这一项我们已经知道了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The biggest attention-getters were the latest 3-Dimensional high definition televisions.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

All laws are by definition just, he tells us, but it doesn't follow that all laws are by definition good.

所有的法律均是以公平和正义为界定的，但人们并不以此为据,而是以这部法律是“好“还是“不好“为界定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That's a new definition of greatness."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

So by that definition, maybe they didn't have fences ... around little plots of land but didn't... They were using it.

按照这个定义，也许他们是没有在,那小块地上围上篱笆，但并不意味着。,他们在使用该土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"The definition of genocide that is most often used is the official U.N.definition in the Genocide Convention of the late 1940s.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

I think you may have defined it already, but I couldn't find a definition of strictly in the book we have.

我想你之前已经定义过了,但是我在课本里没有找到,“严格”的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"It re-defines the definition of a cash payment back to the previous terms of payment after the ship has been loaded;

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Gosh, the answer to that is, again, duh! No. You couldn't possibly survive your death, given the very definition.

答案当然是,不可能,你不可能死后逃生,这是毋庸置疑的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Plant says this definition, which first appeared in a 1930 ILO Convention Against Forced Labor, is still valid today.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

And there are theories who say that by its definition film is not literary but it's a visual art.

也有理论家认它的定义说明,电影并非文学,而是一种视觉的艺术。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

You take a material like silver and put it in a glass case and that's the definition of a meter.

你拿某种材料,比如银,把它放进玻璃柜里,那是一米的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And the definition of autism has broadened so people with wide ranges of functioning are now diagnosed on the autism spectrum.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

And secondly, it turns out their definition of unwelcome sexual advance was broad enough to include someone being asked out on the date by someone they don't want to go out with.

第二个问题是,受调查人员对性挑逗的定义,十分宽泛,有些人被邀请外出约会,往往是被一些他们不想一起出去的人邀请。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He says the abuses have been widespread and systematic which fulfills a definition of crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

This will be the definition of the mole as the amount of carbon weighing exactly 12 grams, so I would like to know now how many particles, how many carbons are there in that mole.

摩尔的定义就是,12克的碳的数量，我想知道有多少粒子，一摩尔会有多少碳粒子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So what we're learning,so far, is that there isn't any set definition as to what sustainability means."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Just the first one or more generally the address of the first one and then, man, I'll just figure it out from there where the rest of the letters are because by definition of a string, they're back to back to back.

只需要第一个字节的地址,然后，我可以指出之后的,剩下的字母,因为通过一个字符串的定义，它们是紧邻的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Applying that definition, I do not think one can consider what happened here a case of genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

We can't define it as an exact radius in terms of the definition we might think of classically.

我们不能给它定义一个精确的半径,按照经典的图像来。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But I think this definition is also limiting, and this is a phenomenon that I hope you will come to be familiar with.

但我认为这个解释也太局限了，我希望你们能逐渐熟悉这一现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选