But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

Okay. So let me describe to you this phenomenon.

我现在给大家描述一下这个现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

because what you have to do is you have to describe it to the person you're talking to.

因为你要做的是向正在和你交谈的人描述它。

紧张是学英语的敌人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此,它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Jungen has said that the sports industry makes free use of American Indian words and images to describe its teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

So we can have four total hydrogens bonding here, - and we can think about how to describe these carbon- carbon bonds.

我们这里一共有四个氢原子成键，我们可以考虑怎么来-,描述碳碳键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

These are words that visitors use to describe Dolly Sods, a large wild area in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

OK, so now let's try to formulate how to describe the equilibrium state and what dictates spontaneity.

现在我们尝试,找出如何描述平衡态以及,什么东西表明自发性。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Soon,people began to use the word hedging to describe steps that could be taken to protect against financial loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

There are 64 combinations of three bases and I only need to describe 20, so there's combinations to spare.

三个一组的碱基产生六十四种组合,而我只需对应二十种氨基酸,所以一种氨基酸会对应不同密码子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

If I wanted you to care about an animal, I would do well to describe it as if it were human.

如果我想你关心动物，我就把它当成人一样描述。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

All right. Now the hermeneutic circle, then, involves this reference back and forth between the entities that I've been trying to describe.

好，现在我们知道解释学循环，包括在我刚刚所说的,存在之间的穿梭。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Some of the guests were not sure what to think of Ellen and Doug's celebration -- or even how to describe it.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

And talk about it and describe it to you along each one of the five dimensions we've laid out in the beginning.

我会依据最开始,提出的五个方面,一一向你们讲述。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Armstrong began to describe what he saw: "The surface appears to be very, very fine grain,like a powder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

If you live in two dimensions or more, you've got to use vectors to describe most things.

如果你要考虑二维或二维以上的问题,大多数情况下需要用矢量来描述

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"Terroir" is the word used to describe how a vineyard's soil and climate give a wine special qualities.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Festival organizers say "Arabesque" was a good word to describe dance, theater or musical styles that are marked by an Arab influence.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Seems like we've got everything you could possibly want to describe in a game.

看起来我们好像得到了,进行一次博弈所需的所有的要素

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The students were also asked to choose five words they might use to describe another object: a table.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

And I don't have language to describe them.

我无法用言语来描述他们。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The stance that I'm trying to describe, which is a kind of ambivalent and complicated one, emerges powerfully in the poem "Easter, 1916," on page 105 in this book.

我想阐明他的这种态度，他的心情是复杂矛盾的，这强烈体现于他诗歌“,本书105页《1916，复活节》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选