In two thousand seven, five young people in the American state of Massachusetts developed an idea.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

The idea is that there is some state of being with God.

存在同上帝同在的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Anybody have an idea? What's the one function of state? I'm the system, the rest are the surrounding. What's the one function of state that's constant when I'm doing all my chemical reactions to move my arms around?

态函数又是什么呢？,我是一个系统，其余的是周围的环境,那么当我在做所有的化学反应,去四处移动我的手臂的时候,什么量是常数？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

American college students are expected to state their main idea at the beginning of the paper.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The president will soon offer some idea of how much his plans have or have not changed when he gives his State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

In order, finally, to see whether Locke is an ally or potentially a critic of the libertarian idea of the state, We have to ask what becomes of our natural rights once we enter into society.

为了最终搞清洛克到底是,自由主义的盟友还是潜在的批评者，就得弄清，一旦进入社会，自然权利将有何变化。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This idea is often described as "the separation of church and state."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

"The idea of rolling back the state is really at the heart of the Cameron agenda."

VOA: standard.2010.05.13