So the first thing I tell an actor to do is learn your craft and be ready when you get the opportunity."

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He's the one who probably would be the first to tell you there is no Santa Claus.

他会是第一个想跟你说,世上不存在圣诞老公公的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the first half of class, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the class and introduce some of the questions that we will think about over the term if you stay in this course.

在这堂课的前半部分，我将告诉你们一些关于这门课的事,介绍几个如果你选择这门课,就将在这学期里考虑的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I've got to tell you that I realized fairly late in life they are more subtle than I imagined the first time.

我得告诉你们,我是很晚的时候才意识到,它其实比我之前想象的要精妙得多

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So the first thing I need to tell you is I really mean it.

所以第一件事我要告诉你们是我是认真的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So at the end of this first lecture where I've gone some way I am trying to tell you what Biomedical Engineering is about, I thought I would try to relate it in a different sort of way.

在第一堂课的最后,我已经从几个方面为你们描述了,生物医学工程是什么,我想可以试试把它和其他学科联系起来

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I should tell you first of all that in this class, the taping is not going to affect you because the camera is going to be behind your head.

我想跟你们强调的是,录像将不会影响你们,因为摄像机在你身后

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

This is the first full paragraph: I don't know how to cure the sourcitis, except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise Blood, but I am often embarrassed to find that I read the sources after I had written the book.

这是第一段的全文：,“我不知道如何解决资料来源的问题，只能告诉你,我自己发现了很多《慧血》的材料来源，但我经常觉得很难堪,因为我在完成了那本书后才读的资料。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That's what I want to do for the first few minutes of the lecture here is tell you a little bit about the details of the structure and how molecules fit into this image of DNA that's already very familiar to you.

这是我想要,在这节课最初几分钟告诉你们的,有关DNA结构的一些细节,DNA分子结构与这个卡通模型如此一致,对你们来说很熟悉

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选