Neuropsychologists love when motorcyclists drive without helmets because through their horrible accidents we gain great insights into how the brain works.

他们喜欢不带安全帽就能开摩托车的时代,因为通过他们严重的交通事故,我们能够了解大脑是如何进行活动的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I think that if we don't address it, it has the potential to have very, very serious effects

我觉得如果我们不解决的话，可能有非常非常严重的后果

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Discord within the city, just as discord within the soul, is regarded as the greatest evil.

城邦内的不协调，一如灵魂里的不协调，全被视为是最严重的罪恶。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With it also being in mind that we can also help less disabled people, still severely disabled, for example with arm amputation, but perhaps less so.

同时，我们想我们也能够帮助到,那些伤残程度不像他们这么严重，但是也属于较重伤残的病人，比如胳膊被截肢，或者稍微轻微一些的病人。

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The general view is that if it's not extreme the rise is not too extreme it's good for the health of the economy as long as we don't have inflation that's too high.

一般的观点是如果它不极端,价格提升不太严重的话,只要我们没有太高的通货膨胀,它就对经济有好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If inequality is morally objectionable, then it's very likely we're going to think it's morally horrendous that there's this crucial inequality: some of us die a the age of 5 while others get to live to 90.

如果不平等会引起道德异议，那么很可能我们会认为这是道德沦丧,因为这里有种非常严重的不平等：,有些人在5岁就死了而有些人却活到90岁。

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the differences in salaries and everything are less here than they are in Brazil and that's good.

工资和其它的不平等在这里没有在巴西那么严重，这一点很好。

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As saying in a television interview, this is Allen Greenspan while I was aware of a lot of these practices, these lending, were going on, I had no notion of how significant they had become until very late.

这是他接受采访时说的，艾伦，格林斯潘说,我之前i就知道有很多不规范行为，：，“,这些借款，但我不知道问题的严重性,直到很晚。

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