That was the song "Discoverer." Like many R.E.M.songs, this one is poetic with a meaning that is not always clear.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

And when you can write that down, for me, there is just tremendous sense of creativity and of purpose and meaning.

当你能把它写出来的时候，对我个人来说，会感到这种来自巨大的创造性,目的性，意义性的满足感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

She has studied the social meaning of American Sign Language as well as the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language in Israel.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.

其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

An examination of Raptorex and its meaning to dinosaur development appeared recently on the Internet version of "Science" magazine.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Meaning in Frost poems, as in the world that they evoke, has to be interpreted every day.

他的诗中的意义，就像世界唤起的一样，不得不每天都理解一遍。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Some teams are more possession oriented, meaning a little bit more low pressure on the ball and more skillful players.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The answer to the question, I think, gets at the very heart of the meaning of this elegy.

问题的答案，在于这首挽歌的中心意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says the president began to think seriously about the meaning of life after Willie died in eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And he took leave of him there. So Jacob named the place Peniel, meaning, "I have seen a divine being face to face, yet my life has been preserved."

便在那里跟雅各告别，雅各便给那地方起名叫毗努伊勒，意思说，“我面对面见了神，我的性命仍得保全，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And so we can thank the American buffalo that once wondered the open plains for this meaning of the word buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Those are called embryonic stem cells, they are self-renewing, and they are pluripotent, meaning they have many potencies.

这些称为胚胎干细胞,它们可以自我更新,且是多能干细胞,即它们有多种潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Perhaps they did this after expressing hope that they could play ball with each other,meaning that they could learn to cooperate.

VOA: special.2010.08.22

Be careful, and this is going to be especially complicated and confusing when we get to quantities that have a more obscure meaning like entropy.

大家要小心，如果需要测量的物理量,如熵，没有很明确的意义,那么着可能变得很复杂。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

So, he's using intuitive-- he says difficult or easy-- so he says it's difficult, meaning the probability is very low, or easy, meaning that probability is high.

所以他直接进行了描述,他用的是困难和简单两词,他说的困难,意思就是概率很小,他说的简单,意思就是概率很大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Afghanistan fell three places to just above Somalia, meaning Afghanistan is seen as the second most corrupt country.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

One meaning is the meaning emphasized by Rene Descartes.

其中一层便是勒奈·笛卡尔所强调的含义

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Then, once you've done that, once you have secured the integrity and accuracy of the meaning, Hirsch says, "Okay, fine.

在你完成那个之后，一旦你确定了意思的真实性和准确性，赫施说，好的，不错。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

What is the meaning of an untrodden way, or of "there are none to praise" her but "very few to love"?

没有人走过的路是什么意思呢？,还有“没有人赞扬她“但是“几乎没有人爱她“又是什么意思呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the popular meaning of Valentine's Day continues to capture hearts around the world, even if not always on February fourteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

This is the result, this is the fruit, of the hermeneutic engagement between horizons that results in meaning.

这是阐释学的结果，它的产物，不同视域会合的阐释学能得到文章的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program offers a true exchange -- meaning two people trade jobs for a time.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

I would suggest that it's not unlike the wedge that Hirsch drives between the concept of meaning and the concept of significance.

我想说明这不是赫施放在,意思和意义之间的差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

By the same token, what Iser is saying is that the space of meaning is "virtual" -this is the word he uses.

同样地，伊瑟尔说,含义所在的空间是“虚拟的“,他用的就是这个词。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选