And,it used to be that twenty or thirty years ago you'd say nothing in France works, and everything works in the U.S, and now it's just the opposite,totally the opposite.

而在二十或三十年前,你会说法国一片混乱,而美国一切运行顺利,现在则恰恰相反,完全相反

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Efficient markets" is a theory about-- well it came in about three decades ago, maybe it's closer to four decades ago-- it's a theory that financial markets work very well and incorporate information very well.

有效市场是...,大约三十年前,甚至四十年前,有人提出了这一假说,他认为金融市场运行良好,而且信息披露全透明

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Things like steel and polymers, or plastics, and ceramics, and of course computers which has progressed remarkably due to the work of engineers in your lifetime, until now you can carry around a cell phone, which would have been unthinkable even 30 years ago.

包括钢铁,聚合物,塑料,陶瓷,当然,计算机这个在你们的有生之年,已经取得令人瞩目的进展的发明,也得归功于工程师的工作,现在你们的手机能随身携带,而这在三十年前是不可想象的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Contact lens technology has changed dramatically from the time that I was born to the time that you were born, and the contact lenses you use today are much different than the ones that would have been used 30 years ago.

从我出生,到你们出生的时间段里,隐形眼镜技术发展的很快,你们现在使用的隐形眼镜,与三十年前使用的,已经有天壤之别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选