What this does is it brings up this issue of why are you here, what do you hope to get out of this course?

所以我要问你们为什么来这，你们期望从这门课中学到什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I want to talk about the goal of the course, what it is you'll be able to do at the end of this course when you get through it, and then I want to begin talking about the concepts and tools of computational thinking, which is what we're primarily going to focus on here.

我想讲讲课程目标，也就是当你们完成了这门课时,应该达到的程度，接下来我想开始谈谈,计算思维的概念和方法，即这门课程的核心内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That's an incredibly important distinction because, think about it,if what you want to do is get rich, you can put together a reasonable investment record and then raise staggering amounts of money.

这点非常重要,仔细想想,如果你只想着赚钱,你可以拼凑一份合理出色的投资记录,然后募集到巨额资金

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because we obviously can't, in any course, or even any set of courses, tell you everything you'll ever want to know in life we've seeded some things in this program that will be unfamiliar, so during the time you're studying the program, get online, look it up, figure out what they do.

因为在任何一门课上或者几门课上，我们都不可能告诉你，所有你想知道的事情,我们在这个程序中,加上了一些你们不熟悉的东西，所以在你们研究这个程序的时候，你们可以上网找资料，弄懂它是干什么的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选