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

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

What is the definition of being rich to you?

对你来说，富有的定义是什么？

钱重要吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2010.06.10

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.08

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

That's a new definition of greatness."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

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

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

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

"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

So let's start by writing down our definition of equilibrium.

一开始,我们先写出平衡的定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"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

So, in talking about covalent bonds, we should be able to still apply a more general definition of a chemical bond, which should tell us that the h 2 molecule is going to be lower in energy than if we looked at 2 separate hydrogen atom molecules.

那么，既然提到了共价键，我们应该还可以,给化学键下一个更普遍的定义,那就是告诉我们氢分子能量应该更低,与两个分开的氢的单原子分子相比。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In 2006,the Russian parliament passed anti-extremism legislation that expanded the definition of extremism to include the slandering of a public official, hindering the work of authorities and involvement in hooliganism or vandalism for ideological, religious or ethnic reasons.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

Well, a fair definition of tickling is touching parts of the body in a mock attack.

胳肢的准确定义就是,打打闹闹时碰身体某个地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.18

So maybe by invisible he should have moved to this stronger, bolder definition of invisible.

所以无形的含义他应该转移到了,这个更有力更大胆的定义上来。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Essentially, it means any society where slave labor where the definition of labor, where the definition of the relationship between ownership and labor is defined by slavery.

从本质上来说,它是个奴隶劳动的社会,在这个社会里劳动的内涵,以及劳动者与其劳动所有权之间的关系,都被定义为奴役

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well that's one possible definition of food.

这是对食品的一种可能的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That's the narrowest definition of cities.

这是最狭义的城市定义

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So C or the compiler's for C are kind of dumb, by definition of the language years ago, whereby, they only know about what they've already seen.

所以C或者C的编译器是有点愚蠢的，根据多年前这个语言的定义，凭借那个，他们只知道,他们所看到的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And the reason I want to use this as an example is, here's my little definition of segment.

我为什么要用这个,做为这个例子的原因是，这是我对于segment的一个小定义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So Thomas said something which was true, but it doesn't quite match with the definition of a dominated strategy.

托马斯所说的是对的,但这的确劣势策略的定义不太相符

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选