I use wood truly as my medium.

我真用木头作我媒介。

The WHO says, “Larviciding measures may be effective as the leading method of vector control in urban areas.”

世卫组织称杀幼虫剂措施作主要传病媒介控制办法可能在城市地区才很有效。

The point is what economists consider money is anything that's accepted as a medium of exchange.

问题是，经济学家认货币是被公认作交换媒介任何东西。

It can provide solace during difficult times, express joy and celebration, and also act as a medium for self-expression.

它可以在困难时期提供安慰，表达喜悦和庆祝之情，也可以作自我表达媒介。

Does freedom require that I stand for toward my roles, my ends, and my purposes as an agent of choice?

自由是要求我作媒介服从自己角色、目和目标？

Well, using a currency of forgiveness, kindness, gratitude, love, those things.

嗯，运用宽恕、善意、感激、爱等这些品质作交流媒介。

For this purpose money was invented, and serves as a medium of exchange.

此，货币被发明出来，并作交换媒介。

Selfica is what they call objects acting as conduits to reach their cosmic friends, the Selfs.

自我卡是们所说能够作媒介来们宇宙朋友——自我物体。

Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest.

文字与武器、微生物和中央集权政治组织一起作现代征服媒介而前进。

Because language is imperfect as a medium for conveying knowledge, it also functions as an obstacle to communication.

由于语言作传达知识媒介并不完善，它也成沟通障碍。

Version 2: It refers to the function in which language is used as a personal medium.

版本2：指语言作个人媒介功能。

Other Guggenheim fellows include the novelist Jonathan Lethem and artist Theaster Gates, known for making abandoned old houses and buildings his medium.

其古根海姆奖得主包括以将废弃旧房屋和建筑物作创作媒介而闻名作家乔纳森·莱瑟姆和艺术家西斯特·盖茨。

When you consider that 41 percent of Kenyans still choose TV as their primary medium, it's obvious that film has a huge potential.

当你考虑到41%肯尼亚人仍然电视作们主要媒介时，很明显电影具有巨大潜力。

Over time, the rise of nationalism led to the increased use of the native spoken language rather than Latin, even as the medium of intellectual communication.

随着时间推移，民族主义兴起导致越来越多地使用母语而不是拉丁语，即使作知识交流媒介也是如此。

Fiat money, first used in China in the 10th century, is money that is simply a token of exchange, with no value other than that assigned to it by the government.

法定货币， 最早于10世纪在中国使用，是一种仅作交换媒介货币，其价值完全由政府赋予， 除此之外并无内在价值。

In a way it would be unreasonable to blame Magee for missing that the invention of teenagers as a market and television as a medium changed what it was to be famous.

某种程度上，责怪马吉未能意识到青少年市场形成和电视作媒介出现改变了成名含义，这并不合理。

What man of us, in the first moments of a sharp agony, could ever feel that the fellow-man who has been the medium of inflicting it did not mean to hurt us?

我们当中有哪个人，在极度痛苦最初时刻，能感觉到作媒介施加痛苦同胞并不是有意伤害我们？

Plato, following the dramatic precedent and the precedent of his talking master, accepted conversation as his medium for philosophy, and imparted to it the vivacity, ease, waywardness even, which the best conversation exhibits.

柏拉图遵循戏剧性先例和谈话大师先例， 接受谈话作哲学媒介， 并赋予它最好谈话所表现出活泼、轻松、甚至任性。

Very few ontological theories of metaphors, if any, are to be found in the vast, diverse and ever-growing literature on metaphors. I wish to suggest that this deficiency relates to an insufficient approach to metaphor as medium.

很少能找到隐喻本体论理论，如果有话。我想指出，这种缺陷与将隐喻作媒介方法不足有关。

One benefit, for instance, concerns the fact that the asynchronous nature of email as a communication medium provides conflict parties with time to cool down, to think more deeply about the best way to get their message across.

例如，一个好处是，电子邮件作通信媒介异步性质冲突各方提供了时间冷静下来，更深入地思考传达信息最佳方式。