"But the cost of doing nothing is potentially far greater.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

He seems to have been doing nothing but reading, acquiring more knowledge and really essentially just learning for the sake of learning.

他好像除了读书，掌握更多的知识以及,单纯学习之外什么也不做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But doing nothing is not only the worse thing we can do for the economy and the worst thing we can do for health care, it is the worst thing we can do for the Democrats and don't you think the Republicans do not know it,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Now, of course, that's a bit of a cheat because the claim isn't to spend eternity doing math problems and nothing but math problems.

当然这有欺人之嫌,因为并非要求永远解决数学问题,其他什么都不做。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We spent an entire day doing nothing but bowing and doing honor.

我们一整天都在鞠躬和向他人表示尊敬

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But what I'm doing, it's just math, there's nothing interesting going on.

刚才的只不过是无聊的数学运算

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If you pay me ten thousand dollars a month to work for you, I'll work for you and I'll think "I'm doing it for ten thousand dollars a month, that makes a lot of sense," but if I do it for nothing then I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing it?"

如果你一个月给我一万美元帮你工作，我会为你工作，但我会想,”我是为了一万美元才做的，这样更合理“,但如果我一点报酬都没有，那我就会问我自己，”我为什么要做这份工作？”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选