But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

So, these on-changing properties that describe the state of the equilibrium state of the system are called state variables.

这些描述,系统平衡态的,变化的属性,就叫做状态变量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It means that the properties of the system, the properties that describe the system, don't change in time or in space.

它的意思是指，用以描述系统的性质，不随时间或空间改变。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith describe the first days of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

That's how this advertisement represents critics, even though it also invokes critics to describe what's powerful about the novel.

这就是广告对批评的描述，尽管如此,它还引述批评家的话来衬托小说的出色之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

I'd like to describe what we're doing in both of those aspects, both of technology and active learning aspects.

我想谈谈我们在这两方面,具体干了什么，在技术和自主学习两方面。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He had a system. He would describe characters and plots, then have ghostwriters expand those ideas into a book.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

And I wanted to take a moment for perhaps you to describe some of the controversy that has been around your career.

我想请您在这里,给我们讲一下，您的职业生涯中,出现的一些争议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

So we can have four total hydrogens bonding here, - and we can think about how to describe these carbon- carbon bonds.

我们这里一共有四个氢原子成键，我们可以考虑怎么来-,描述碳碳键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

That is to say with just those set of constructs, anything you can describe algorithmically you can compute with that set of constructs.

图灵完全化语言的特点，的例子之一,也就是说用这些结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mister Jungen has said that the sports industry makes free use of American Indian words and images to describe its teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

That kind of makes sense, but there's more, of course, here than the moon to describe Satan's shield.

这能说得通了，但是除此之外，还有比月亮更适合的类比撒旦的屏障的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

People who live through life threatening situations sometimes describe a calming presence or guiding voice hat helps them survive.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

You simply want to describe things the way they are and then dynamics tells you how they changed and why they changed.

你只是单纯描述物体的实际状态,而动力学则是解释它们运动的方式和原因的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

These are words that visitors use to describe Dolly Sods, a large wild area in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

There's got to be something back there, so we're going to call it "the unconscious" and we're going to try to describe it.

我们以后还会讲到这点,潜意识的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

I'll describe a bit about the class and we'll get a bit of admin under our belts.

我来简单介绍下这门课程,还有这门课程的评分细则

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

And so the breakdown that we've had in past terms are just under half of the students describe themselves as among those less comfortable just 10% over 10% among those more comfortable, in between.

在以往的学期里,仅有将近一半的学生,认为自己对电脑知识不太熟悉,认为自己比较熟悉电脑的人略多于，剩余的这些学生介于两者之间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some of the guests were not sure what to think of Ellen and Doug's celebration -- or even how to describe it.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

Well, actually, the first remark is, probably wouldn't be completely accurate to say, to describe these views as saying, " "It's being alive per se."

实际上，第一个评价是，也许这种说法不完全准确，他们把这些观点描述成为，“活着本身“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant describe events during the spring of eighteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

And today we'll finish that discussion, and, of course, point out actually the failure of classical mechanics to appropriately describe what's going on in an atom.

结束这部分的讨论，当然的，要指出经典力学,在描述原子内部,情况时是失败的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It's not something that you can either explain in word or describe.

不是你可以用言语,来解释和描述的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选