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
Well you can read the story, it's in Numbers 20, the incident is described there. But the answer is still not entirely clear, it's not clear what Moses did that was so bad as to deserve this punishment.
你们可以阅读这个故事,在民数记20,讲述了这个事件,然而答案却仍然不是完全清楚的,摩西究竟做了什么,坏事才遭受这样的惩罚,还不完全清楚。
He makes it clear that utility is the only standard of morality, in his view, so he's not challenging Bentham's premise. He's affirming it.
明确指出功利是道德的唯一标准,在他看来,他并没有质疑边沁的前提,而是肯定此观点。
He said new Security Council sanctions approved in June make clear that international law is not an empty promise.
VOA: special.2010.09.25
You might think the answer to that is no if we are physicalists but in fact it's not so clear the answer is no.
如果我们是物理主义者你可能认为,人不可能肉体不死,但其实答案没有那么明确。
"The plane is still very high and it's quite clear that he's not coming in for his bombing run.
VOA: special.2010.01.31
This structure -- and this is something that's important for Milton to convey to us -- is genuinely beautiful. It's not entirely clear that Milton wants us to think of Pandemonium as unambiguously evil.
这个结构是弥尔顿认为应该传达给我们的,很重要的事,它实在是很美,尚不清楚弥尔顿,是否想让我们决得这地狱是绝对的邪恶。
The idea is for hospitals to send a clear message that there is no reason not to report this kind of accident.
VOA: special.2010.02.10
One thing that makes it pretty clear is that certainly delta S or the sign of it alone is not dictating the outcome here.
这个例子非常清楚的说明,熵增dS或者它的符号,不能单独决定最后的结果。
"I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, message that is loud and clear and does not mince words.
VOA: standard.2010.05.19
They are not concerned about interpretation because to them, good writing is precisely writing that's clear, writing that doesn't need to be interpreted but has precisely as its virtue its transparency of meaning.
他们不关注解读问题,因为对他们而言,一部好的作品必须清楚明白,正因为它表意清楚,所以不需要解读。
One of them, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, made clear that doing nothing is not an option.
VOA: standard.2009.11.23
How is this determined? And Hobbes makes clear that the sovereign is not invested with the authority to exercise a kind of absolute control over everything that people do.
它是怎么确定的呢,霍布斯阐释说,君主并非要用自己的权力,对人民做的所有事情都拥有绝对的控制。
"But it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged.
VOA: standard.2010.01.05
So, I've been asked that if a question is not very clear, I should repeat it so that people listening to it later will know what the question was.
工作人员要求我,如果某个问题听得不清楚,我就需要重复一遍,好让今后观看视频的人弄清楚问题是什么
"As President Obama insisted and as part of the Israeli Knesset believes, Israel has to now give clear guarantees that it is not going to expand these settlements.
VOA: standard.2009.11.16
It's not clear that's even a sensible question The question is there's a height difference between you and me and him and her ? How do we explain that difference?
这问题还并不一定成立,问题是身高差异存在于,你、我、他之间,这如何解释?
But the secretary also said senior officials are aware that past efforts have failed, and he said it is not clear whether the view in Tehran has changed.
VOA: standard.2009.05.05
And political leaders have represented this to their people as so it were a humanitarian effort which it is But they have not made clear to the people that they are fighting a war, they are fighting a war because of threat to them as well.
政府人员说这是一个人道主义的策略,但是他们并没有说明他们在进行一场战争,因为阿富汗对他们有威胁。
Candace Rondeaux says it is not at all clear that he can come through on his promises, and that could have a future impact on U.S.and allied military operations.
VOA: standard.2009.08.03
Alright, we should make clear that John is advising John McCain So, that answer is not a total surprise 18.5% Federal tax receipts now about 18.5 percent of GDP ? 3 years from now, higher, lower, about the same?
好吧,看来约翰是在为约翰·麦凯恩拉票了,这个倒是意料之中的事儿,目前联邦税收约占GDP的,3年之后,是升高,降低还是持平?
I think the real point is that because we are in uncharted waters, the argument can always be made back to the Obama administration there is not a clear blueprint.
VOA: standard.2009.03.29
Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?
至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说,“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的?
So I think it becomes clear that even if we want to reduce our regional profile, an issue like the Yemen issue makes it clear that this is not possible,"
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
Even though there were people, mostly young men, willing and able to read to him, it's clear that the vast quantity of learning that gets poured - all of that erudition that gets poured into the pages of Paradise Lost - it's clear that this is not a product of Milton's last-minute review of the classics.
尽管有很多人,大多数是年轻人,愿意将材料读给他听,很显然这使得大量的知识被注入,所有这些广博的知识被注入到《失乐园》的字里行间,但很显然这不是,弥尔顿在最后一分钟对于古典文献回顾的产物。
Dollet adds that while there are other Arabic-speaking countries that do not control the Internet as much as Egypt, it is not clear how long that relative freedom will last.
VOA: standard.2009.11.16
And the answer is, "Well it's not so clear that it is true."
问题的答案是,"这可说不准"
But it is becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now, is not sufficiently up-to-date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have,".
VOA: standard.2009.12.29
And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.
现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样,我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论,是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的,理想容器理论或保守容器理论。
"We have now to concretize the measure which have been agreed upon 11 April and we have to send a clear signal that we will not let down Greece, and I think that is the bottom line of everything."
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
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