Robert Fulton would say for the rest of his life that he had no idea why he said such a thing.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

It is a transnational idea, in other words, which nevertheless has, obviously, certain specific applications depending on where it is.

这是一个跨国的概念，但是很明显，它也有其明确的地区性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yeah, I think that mandatory voting is a no-brainer. It's a dumb idea. It's a terrible idea.

我认为强制投票这事不用多考虑，是一个极其愚蠢，极其糟糕的想法。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The idea is that its removal from the body and purification makes it into something different that can be patented.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Well, it's on one hand a very large idea to take in, particularly I think if one's working in a university.

这是一个很大的话题，不容易理解，对于在大学中工作学习的人尤为如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is always a good idea to keep a lot of necessary supplies in the home even before winter begins.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

And the rejection of this motif or this idea in Genesis 1 is pointed and purposeful. It's demythologization.

但《创世纪》第一章中对此模式或观点的否定,是明显且有目的的，它是一种去传奇化的叙述。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

Copyright arose as a bourgeois idea. That is to say, "I possess my writing. I have an ownership relationship with my writing."

版权是中产阶级提出的思想，意思即是，“我支配自己写作，我对我的作品享有所有权“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The idea spread. The Newspaper Association of America says advertising sales today provide about eighty percent of the money for newspapers.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Yeats develops this idea or develops another version of it in a somewhat earlier poem that's interesting in relation to this one.

叶芝进一步发展了这一想法,并在早期的一首诗里,写了另一个版本,那首与这首的关系很有趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In other cultures, paragraphs may be organized to build toward the main idea, which is revealed at the end.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

So this is just the idea that the most electrons that you can have in a single orbital is two electrons.

这个观点是在一个单个的轨道中,最多容纳两个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Also,you can monkey around when you feel like doing something, but have no firm idea of what to do.

VOA: special.2011.03.13

We had no idea what was going on with the system, with how people were using it. We were making guesses.

我们不知道这个系统会怎么样，也不知道人们用得怎么样，我们只是在猜测。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

But critics of national standards say the idea goes against one of America's oldest traditions -- local control of education.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

And you get the idea. What am I going to do next? I'm going to compare three against four.

我接下来将要怎么做了？,我要拿3和4进行对比，3是小的一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A better idea is to harvest foods either early or late in the day, then leave them to cool naturally.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

But the unmistakable physicality of the heaven imagined in the poem about Diodati gives us some idea, I think, of how to read the end of Lycidas.

但在关于迪奥达蒂的这首诗中弥尔顿所想象的,天堂的物质性是无可置疑的，这能给我们一些启发，帮我们理解《利西达斯》的结尾。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One idea is that,as people age, they grow more thankful for what they have, and have better control of their emotions.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

So, the idea here is, repeated pairings of the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus will give rise to the response.

这里的意思是说，无条件刺激与条件刺激的反复匹配,会引起条件反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ted Nash wanted to copy the idea of thrown paint musically by creating a composition that sounded big and free.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The idea that America stood for some kind of progress, that America meant a prosperous future was just common coin.

那种美国代表了发展进步,代表了繁荣未来的想法是双方共有的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

They also said it was a bad idea for the United States to take control of any nation in the Caribbean.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The strings come in with a counter-idea, a complementary idea.

弦乐器表现对立的部分,一个互补的部分

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Until Texas became a state, almost all national leaders seemed to accept the idea that Congress did have this power.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

So we talked about changing ourselves, how it's possible the "growing-tip" statistics which is the second significant idea within research in positive psychology: " first significant idea is "let's study what works" " the second significant idea is "let's study what works best".

我们讨论过改变自己，为什么成长尖端统计学,会是积极心理学研究中的,第二个重要理念：,第一个重要理念是“研究可行的事“,第二个重要理念是“研究最优秀的个体。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Anyway, if you imagine sort of putting on a modern football helmet, with that mask in front of you, you would begin to get an idea, only begin to get an idea of what it was like to have that bronze helmet on your head.

总之,如果你戴着一个现代橄榄球头盔,前面还有面具,你就能稍微体会一下那种感觉了,但这还是跟铜质头盔的感觉,相去甚远的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选