That's too abstract." In the Bilski case, the court said patent examiners could consider what is known as the machine-or-transformation test.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

So the question then comes is given that, do you have the courage to examine who you are, do you have the courage to try to cultivate the capacity to love, not just with them in the abstract, but other human beings, not just your family, but what I call "spill-over love".

因此，问题就是，你有没有勇气去审视你到底是谁？,你有没有勇气去培养自己去爱的能力，不仅仅是抽象的爱，不仅仅是爱家人，而是爱其他所有人，这就是我所说的“满溢的爱”

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In its ruling, the court decided against the patent only because the idea was too abstract.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

There's a clear tendency in this story towards monotheism in the abstract terms that Kaufman described.

这里有明显的一神论倾向,在Kaufman言辞抽象的表述中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the nineteen fifties, the abstract expressionist style became very popular.

VOA: special.2011.03.13

They began with an abstract thought, discussed it, reminded each other of another abstract point forgotten in the rush of events.

他们从一个抽象的想法开始讨论，相互提醒着在匆忙中,被遗忘的另一个抽象概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I want to just use it, I shouldn't have to worry about what variables I use inside of it, I have shouldn't have to worry about where that is in the code, I should be able to just abstract it away. And that's what we want to add today, are those two things.

我只是想使用它,我不用考虑我在这段代码中,使用的是什么变量,我完全不用考虑代码的内容,只要抽象就好,我们今天想补充的内容就是这两点。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And this is something to contrast with the early Yeats and its high idealism, and its drive to exist in an abstract and ideal world.

这可与早期他诗歌的理想主义,致力表现，抽象理想世界作对比。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There's no language in the world that you just cannot talk about abstract things with.

世界上并不存在,无法谈论抽象概念的语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We have discovered that this partial derivative that appears in the definition, the abstract definition of the differential for internal energy, is just equal to the constant volume heat capacity.

我们还发现,这个偏微分出现在了，内能的偏微分,定义式中，它也就是热容。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They talk a lot, as Sarah said, they talk a lot about abstract questions, and this puts the meaning of the story in that abstract register. Is it a love story, or is it a religious story, a mystifying story?

他们谈论了很多，如萨拉所说，他们谈论了很多,很抽象的问题，这使得这个故事,变得抽象了，这是个爱情故事吗，有的或者是个宗教故事，还是个神秘故事呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You've learnt what the words mean, but you have abstract and unconscious rules that take these words, figure out the order, and in a fraction of a second, give rise to understanding.

虽然你已经知道了这些单词的意思,但却是你所拥有的抽象且无意识的规则,让你认清单词,确认语序,然后在一瞬间让你理解整个句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选