A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the "it sounds like" pattern can only be used when the other person you're speaking with

但是“it sounds like”句型只能使用于当你的谈话对象

It sounds like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

then what you have is a carbon in the middle with three hydrogens around it, and then it can only be bonded to one other thing.

那么你就会有一个碳原子在中心,三个氢原子围绕着它，那么它只能再和一个原子成键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Well, it can only be true if security selection and market timing detract from institutional returns or individual returns in the aggregate.

唯一的可能性就是证券选择,和市场时机选择,给机构和个人带来的是负的回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Two-- that which is eternal or non-physical can only be grasped by the eternal and the non-physical.

前提二,永恒和非现实的事物只能被,永恒和非现实的事物所认知

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This cell can only be an effective barrier if there's no way to get past it.

这些细胞只有密不透风,才足以形成一道屏障

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And these are the qualities taken together that Socrates calls justice, that can only be achievedwhen reason is in control of the appetites and desires.

而这些特质合在一起,便是苏格拉底所谓的正义，达成的方法,仅有透过由理性控制欲望与渴求。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And it can only be done through this kind of effort.

而这只能通过这种努力而实现。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That means, it can only be rattling around in a circle of radius R.

也就是说它只能,限制在一个半径为 R 的圆上运动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And these rings are indicative of the crystal structure of nickel and can be explained only by invoking wavelike properties of light.

这些光圈,表明了了镍的晶体结构,而且只能通过,光线中波的特征来解释。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Government can't be the only one with responsibility; if it's not the only one with the power.

政府并非是唯一需要负责的部门",除非它是独掌权利的部门

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Because it can't be right to kill five people when you can only kill one person instead.

我认为当可以只牺牲一个人时,牺牲五人不是正确之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You can only do that by balancing competitive desires that can be thought of as evil; faction was what they were talking about and everybody thought faction was bad, but it was inevitable.

你仅仅通过平衡那些被视为罪恶的,竞争性欲望就可以达到此目的,也就是,大家所谓的派系,每个人都认为派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The alternative to the city, the empire, can only be ruled despotically.

替代的城市与帝国社会，将仅能接受专制统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选