Even though it would be easy and it is ripe for the picking, we wanted to be more of an homage to that type of storytelling because I think it has a really powerful message.

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Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So if we tease this apart and this is actually nice, every semester I get beat up for just how bad this thing actually is if you start really picking it apart.

因此，如果我们分解这个部分，这其实是不错的，不管事情多么糟糕,分解一下就好了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选