We can see how whether it's the same person or not has to turn on the relations between the stages.

我们可以看到，是否为同一人,必须依赖于人在两个时期的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What I just spent many lectures discussing is the fact that we can not know how far away an electron is from the nucleus, so we can't actually know the radius of a certain atom.

我花了这么多课时所讨论的正是我们,不可能知道电子离原子核有多远这一事实，因此我们不可能知道某个原子的半径。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now Descartes, you remember, in his Meditations begins by asking a series of questions about how we can know anything, and one of the skeptical questions he asks is, "Well, might I not be crazy?"

大家应该记得，在《沉思录》的开头，笛卡尔问了一系列,关于我们如何知道一切的问题，其中的一个问题是，我可能疯了？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

? Not enough. How can we get beyond that "comfortably numb"?

还不止如此，我们要怎样摆脱这种“舒适地麻木？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As we do these little clicker poll things you can tell me if you find it helpful or not, then we can decide how to continue --whether to continue them in the future.

我们用表决器做这个小测试的同时,大家可以告诉我你们觉得这有没有帮助,然后我们再决定以后是否继续用

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But is has another sense which is not a rhetorical sense, because metaphor is sort of the heart of rhetoric, the rhetorical sense A is B--when, by the way, A we know perfectly well that A is not B. How can A be B? A is only A.

但是is有另外一个意思，修辞之外的一种意思，因为暗喻差不多可以说是修辞的中心，修辞中所说的A是B，顺便说一下，我们十分清楚地知道A不是B，A怎么能是B呢，A就是。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选