When we act we seek to preserve or to change.

当我们开始行动，即是为寻求保守或改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he argued that we act so as to reduce dissonance.

他认为我们会通过某种行为来减少失调。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We have the capacity to think morally, we have the capacity to act morally, and to be altruistic or benevolent.

我们能够以道德的方式思考，我们也能够做有道德的事，我们可以无私奉献，可以乐善好施。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Even though we were doing in Japan, we're still doing language act, we're still doing writing.

即使我们是在看跟日本有关的书,仍然是在学习语言，和写作。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Oh,well,we're in Laodicea. Let's say 'To the Laodiceans,' and we can act like Paul sent it just to us."

比如在老底嘉的人填上“致老底嘉教会“,它就成了保罗寄给老底嘉都会的信“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I got about a one-minute warm-up here, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got Lynda Paul who's like a Vegas show act. Okay?

这个热场活动很短,大概只有一分钟,由琳达·保罗进行拉斯维加斯那样的演出

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We are free to the extent that we can act in an unimpeded manner.

在所允许的限度里,我们可以无拘束地任何想做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Reagan was a big believer in free markets; we had a law that actually passed, it's called the Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980--that's actually before Reagan.

里根是自由市场的崇信者,那时其实通过了一项法律,称为,1980年存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,该方案是在里根执政之前通过的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We noticed that sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences, in the results, in the state of the world that it brought about.

我们发现有时，我们倾向于,依据行为所产生的后果，以及对外界的影响，判断其是否道德。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So it's going to be-- it's like one of the reality shows where things are going to be as they are and hopefully after a while we'll learn to act and behave normally and not worry about its presence.

因此,这就像...,就像某种真人秀节目,你在节目里要假装和平常一样,但愿过一段时间以后,我们能表现得很自然,完全忽略那部摄像机的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In other words, only if we really are sure that the historicist act of reading is effective and works, if I know the meaning of a text. Well, fine.

换言之，要是我们确定,阅读这个历史主义行为是有效的，有用的，如果我知道文本的意思，那么，很好。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

only to affect our local neighborhoods But what we do locally, act locally, think globally. -Right.

但这力量只能影响到当地社区,我们在本地所做的，着眼于本地行动，着眼于全球思考，-对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They would say, "We hired a stooge to act in the following role in the experiment."

他们会说，我们请了一个助手在试验中充当实验中一个角色“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

as we can think about something and then we can act on it.

与我们所做之间的联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选