They included several terms that came from other languages like French, German, and Italian and for many of them their pronunciations and meanings maybe as illusive as their spellings.

它包括了一些来其他语言的术语，比如法语、德语和意大利语，对于他中的许多人来，这些术语的发音和意义可能和他的拼写一样虚幻。

TONY FADELL: “Stay beginners, ” well, that's a term that I learned from Steve, and it was all about understanding that when you're in the business that we're in, we get so caught up in our own lingo.

“保持初学者的状态”，这是我从史蒂学来的一个术语，它的意义就在于理解，当你身处我所处的行业，我会被己的行话所束缚。

The term reciprocal meant nothing in the end.

最终，“互惠”这一术语毫无意义。

If people say they're string theorists, what they mean and what they're doing is kind of hard, it's hard to pin down the meaning of the term.

如果人己是弦理论学家，么他所的含义和他在做的事情就有点难以捉摸，很难确定这个术语的确切意义。

This implies that saving and investment can be unequal, and has, therefore, no meaning until these terms have been defined in some special sense.

这意味着储蓄和投资可能不相等，因此在这些术语在某种特殊意义上被定义之前没有任何意义。

The technical school intends to furnish training which, in the sense in which we use the term, is not intellectual but practical.

技术学校旨在提供培训，在我使用该术语的意义上，不是知识性的而是实践性的。

However, he is not yet a " mature" reader in the sense in which we want to employ the term in this book.

然而，从我在本书中使用这个术语的意义上来，他还不是一个“成熟”的读者。

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

冗余是美国写作的一大弊病。我身处一个被多余词汇、循环结构、浮夸修饰和无意义术语窒息的社会。

11-2-3-1Matter a Meaningless Term Locke had said that substance, or matter, supports or acts as a substitute for the qualities we sense.

11-2-3-1物质是一个无意义的术语 洛克曾过，物质或物质支持或替代我感知的品质。

Such an agenda would make America's liberals more liberal in the British sense of the term.

这一议程将使美国的由派在英国术语的意义上更显由化。

Some of the books are great in the special sense of the term that we employed in the last chapter.

从我在上一章中使用的术语的特殊意义上来，有些书很棒。

Even a lyric has a " plot" in the sense in which we are using the term here.

甚至一首歌词也有一个“情节”，就我在这使用这个术语的意义而言。

We have stated the rules of analytical reading generally so that they apply to any expository book-any book that conveys knowledge, in the sense in which we have been using that term.

我已经概括地阐述了分析性阅读的规则，以便它适用于任何明性书籍——任何传达知识的书籍，就我一直使用该术语的意义而言。