All right. The creativity argument may not work, but there's something that sort of immediately comes on its heels.

这些关于创造力的观点或许行不通,但是有些东西,随之而来

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That may or may not work -- I'm not optimistic -- but at least it's the same idea. We're changing payoffs.

这似乎无济于事,我对此也并不乐观,但至少我们得承认,它改变了收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If you don't account for them all in your design, the system may not work.

若设计时不能全面考虑，该体系就行不通。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

All of us need some money, but some people really enjoy doing work that may not generate, if it's non-profit work like what we do.

我们都需要一些钱，但有些人,是真的乐于从事平凡的工作，比如说像我们做的这种不会发财的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You really want to get the power of dividing things up, but if you end up doing a ton of work at the combination stage, you may not have gained anything.

你真的想得到分解问题的能力,但是如果在合成的某个阶段,你需要做大量的工作，你可能得不到任何东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you tried to do one alone it would not work, so we decided to divide it up imperfectly and there may be some repetition between our two courses.

非要分开单独来学的话是不可行的,所以我们只能退而求其次,分割后的两门课可能会有重复的部分

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All the supreme court justices would share our social values. And most importantly, our programs would work the first time we typed them. By now you may have noticed that we do not live in an ideal world.

符合我们的社会价值观,但是最重要的是，我们写好的程序，第一次就能顺利运行,如今你可能已经注意到了,我们生活的并不是一个理想的世界。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选