That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

I think this is probably a size of lumber, but you can't get away from the mythology of that number.

我想这可能是木材的一种规格，但是你不得不去想,这数字中的神话意味。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

but you have to plan a funeral, and you have to, like, deal with the flowers then make a program

但同时你也要去筹划葬礼，准备祭奠的鲜花，确定葬礼的流程，

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It didn't turn out well, but you know, I mean it was a nice memory though, a good experience making chocolate."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

But you'll see that once you get to final projects frankly, you're not gonna want to implement everything from scratch.

但是一旦你得出了最终方案，你就不会愿意利用框架去,实现任何功能了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But you must be careful. It is easy to get lost in the waves of moving sand especially during sandstorms.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

Then things suddenly blow up on you, but you'll recover and you'll figure something out and then you'll move from there.

然后突然间爆掉了，但是你会修复好自己而且解决问题,然后你就能从那个经济低谷走出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

It's like you want passion for technology but you need passion for customers, and you got to get kind of the Yin and Yang.

就像你想要对技术的热情,但是却需要对消费者的热情，这又有点像阴阳之间的抉择。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But you always remember that she had this incredible freedom that most children don't have and she was so smart."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Indeed, all the earth is Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel."

因为全地球都是我的,你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国家’,这些话你要告诉犹太人“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said life is sometimes really hard, but you can make it a lot better if you try to prepare for it.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

You can find the equation, but you've got to think a little bit before you solve everything.

你能写出方程式,不过在解题之前你最好能稍作思考

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

If you could get to zero degrees Kelvin, you'd get perfect efficiency, 0 but you can't get to zero degrees Kelvin, you can't. Even if you have an infinite amount of resources, you can't get there.

如果能达到，你就能获得完美的效率，但你得不到，得不到，即使你有无穷多的资源,你也做不到。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But you have a good chance of success if you start with a few suggestions from experts.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But you'd like to write your program not in terms of floats and ints and lists, but in terms of mortgages, and CDOs, and all of the objects that you read about in the paper, the types you read about.

但是你可以不基于,浮点型，整型还有链表来进行编程，而是基于一些房贷类，债务抵押债券类来编程,甚至那些你在报纸上看到的类。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But you have to use a safe method or you could do a lot of damage.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

But you wouldn't notice the disgustingness if you just thought about the value of pizza in isolation and the value of chocolate in isolation.

但如果你单独考虑比萨饼的价值,和巧克力的价值,你就不会觉得恶心。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

East Asians commonly have "dry" earwax.z But you can have too much of a good thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

But you shouldn't take the date that I give you, the traditional date, as being firm.

但是我所提供给你的日期历史久远,并不能当做确切的时间加以使用

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"But you stupid idiot!" shouted Mister Morehouse, madly shaking a thin book beneath the agent's nose.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

There were some problems with that deal and I just give you one news report on that, but you can follow it if you're interested.

那项交易里存在很多问题,而我仅仅给了你一段关于它新闻报道,不过如果你对此感兴趣你可以去追查一下

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But you can use a swab or cloth to clean the outer part of the ear.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

as the surgeon, you are the captain of the ship, but you are not there alone, so you need to have a team with you.

作为一名外科医生，你就像是一艘船上的船长，但并非孤身一人，你需要一个团队一起协作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

But you also have the Nook from Barnes and Noble and the e-reader from Sony.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

You've got horses which you need for the army but also which they start slaughtering; you've got cattle but you have enough food to last for maybe a month; there's always a lot to drink because of the caves, that is, the wine cellars that people had, but things get worse and worse.

你有军队所需的马,但是士兵会把马杀来吃,你有牛,但是这些食物只能,维持大概一个月的时间,喝的东西总是不缺的,因为他们有酒窖,就是用来储藏葡萄酒的酒窖,不过事态还是变得越来越糟

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Butterflies are beautiful insects, but you would not want to have butterflies in your stomach.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I mean I know you all know each other because you've met at Yale, but you also know each other well enough to know that not everyone in the room is rational, and you're pretty sure that not everyone knows that you're rational and so on and so forth.

我的意思是,我知道你们互相都认识,因为你们都在耶鲁大学念书,但你们都那么熟悉了就会发现,并不是所有的人都是理性的,而且你很确定并非所有人都知道,你是理性,以此类推

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That's, and you have lots and lots of data, but you need some, you know, expertise to analyze the data,

虽然你有很多很多的数据，但你要知道怎么分析，

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