At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko, that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

有争议的是TMT的计划建造地点——莫纳克亚山，它是被一些夏威夷人信奉为“piko”（夏威夷本地语言中代表着“大海的浪花”，“冲浪运动”，并引申有“阳光”，“生命”，“健康”等含义）的休眠火山，他们认为此山连接着夏威夷群岛和天堂。

That's right. In English vocabulary, we often put two or more nouns together to form a new noun, with a meaning that combines the meanings of the two original nouns. We call these words compound nouns.

是的。在英语词汇中，我们经常将两个或多个名词放在一起以形成一个新名词，其含义是将两个原始名词的含义结合在一起。我们称这些词为复合名词。

I've thought about Mamba mentality, what's that meant, but just as a guy loves his game growing up and watching him play inspire me.

我过说曼巴精以及他的含义，但是我为一个粉丝讲两句，看他打长大对我来说是一种激励。

I can't agree more. The " only-child-generation" in China tends to know little about marriage.

完全同意．中国的独生子女一代，不太明白婚姻的含义。

Not to mention the political implications.

更不用提其中的政治含义了。

The other action would explain the term committing to a mental institution to include involuntary inpatient as well as outpatient services.

另一个措施是澄清“进过精病院”的含义，它应包括非自愿住院和门诊患者。

Suffrage is not simply about the right to vote but also about what that represents.

选举权不仅关乎着是否有投票的权利 更关乎着它所代表的含义。

And yet, to understand the innovation and the challenges, this is very foundational knowledge.

然而，如果要理解创新的含义和挑战机遇的话，这是非常基础的知识。

Speaking with The Hindu, Caine spoke only a bit about the upcoming film, but what he had to say about it speaks volumes.

在接受《印度教徒报》采访时，凯恩对于即将上映的这部电影只透露了一小部分，但他说的话很有含义。

I don't either. But some people do.

我也觉得没有。但有些人认为梦有特殊含义。

And that can, in certain moods, be a highly redemptive thought to keep in mind.

在某些情况中，这又带来一种高度救赎性的含义。

The joke plays off two different meanings of smell.

这个笑话包含了 smell 的两种不同含义。

What he meant by that we can only surmise.

此话含义为何，我们同样只能猜测。

But in American English, a stick in the mud is far more than that.

但在美式英语中，" stick in the mud" 的含义远不止这些哦。

We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.

我们揭开研究的秘面纱，帮助你了解其真实含义。

It has the same meaning, it means become less intellectually challenging.

它的含义没有变，指的是把事情变得没那么费脑力。

He certainly has the gift of the gab.

当我们看到一个人口才非常好，能演算到。你可以说，He's got the gift of the gab。他真的很有口才。Gab有闲聊或是瞎扯的含义。Gift of the gab是很会说话的才能。

Now, amazingly, the brain is really good at taking in these signals and extracting patterns and assigning meaning, so that it takes this inner cosmos and puts together a story of this, your subjective world.

不可思议的是，大脑很擅长于接受这些信号，提取模式，赋予含义，于是它形成了这种 内部环境来整合信息，并组成了你的主观世界。

A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message or the action or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance.

在高语境文化中，信息、行动或事件的语境承载着其含义和意义的很大一部分，这样的文化是高语境文化。

Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.

这种美感和静谧是我们无法描述的，因为我们发明的语言是用来描述这个世界的含义，不能随便拿来去描述另一个世界。