"They are so complicated that if you tried to estimate how many ways you can make a snowflake, you get a huge number not just billions or trillions, but bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

How can you make such a silly mistake?

你怎么会犯那么傻的错误？

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These, they are all really smart people, which is why we brought them and we want to leverage the fact that they have a lot of really good ideas and can do a lot of the stuff themselves, but how you make sure that it's conforming to standards, you know.

他们都是聪明人，我们雇佣他们,是看重他们有着绝佳的点子,并且拥有独立开发的能力，但你需要确保,这些点子以及产品都符合标准。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

So you say, how can I make money beating the market if every quarter I have to tell everybody what I'm doing?

因此你会说,如果我按季度公布所有的投资活动,那我还怎么跑赢市场赚取利润

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Figure out how you can make it move a little to the left, a little to the right, up and down and then repeat in some kind of looping structure.

就是找出办法让它向左移动一小步，向右移动一小步，向上一小步，向下一小步,像这样不断重复。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So it looks like not too many more than half of you got this correct, so make sure you can look at your periodic table and figure out how to think about ionization energy in terms of z effective, not just in terms of memorizing what that trend is.

看起来只有一半多一点的人,做对了，所以请大家务必做到能够通过观察周期表,并在考虑电离能时,从有效核电量的观点出发，而不是仅仅依靠记住这个规律。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Because you don't know how much more time you've got-- You can make a guess based on statistics, but as we saw, there's wild unpredictability.

因为你不知道你剩下多少时间-,你可以根据数据进行猜测，但是我们都知道，不可预见性太难把握。

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I don't know how well you can make it out but there's a little broom guy there with glasses, playing air guitar with his broom, and I guess this is meant to capture the spirit of the contributors.

我不知道你们能理解到什么程度,但是在那儿有一个戴着眼镜的男孩，用他的扫帚在弹着吉他，我猜这个的寓意是指要抓住那些发起人的精神内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's not enough to understand the biology of how to create a vaccine, if you can't make enough of the vaccine or deliver it to people in ways that it's useful.

仅仅知道疫苗制造的,生物学原理是不够的,还得能生产出足够的疫苗,并在公众中广泛使用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Philosophers and psychologists knew for a long time that getting smacked in the head could change your mental faculties; that diseases like syphilis could make you deranged; that chemicals like caffeine and alcohol can affect how you think.

哲学家和心理学家在很久以前便知道,头部受到重创,会改变你的心理官能,像梅毒这样的疾病可以让你精神错乱,像咖啡因和酒精这样的化学药品,可以影响到你的思维

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You can't think that it really could make so much difference in the real world how prices and quantitie and welfare, and profit is going to work out depending on some thought experiment about how I think about my strategy set.

你们很难想象在现实世界里,价格 产量 福利和利润会因为,不同策略集合设定下的思想实验,而产生如此巨大的变化

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

if you don't want to use that, you can also derive it as we did every time, it should intuitively make sense how we got there. But the exams are pretty short, so we don't want you doing that every time, so we'll save the 2 minutes and give you the equations directly, but it's still important to know how to use them.

吸收的和发射的，如果你不想用公式,你也可以每次都向我们这样推导它,很直观的就能得到结果，但考试时间很短，我们不希望你们每次都推导,所以我们会直告诉你，让你节省2分钟，但知道如何应用它十分重要。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

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