But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

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So I'm not here for very much longer because I'm moving to Paris.

我不会在这里呆很长时间，因为我要搬去巴黎。

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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Not the soul can't be destroyed or if it can be destroyed, it is very very hard and takes very very long time.

而不是灵魂不会毁灭，或者,如果可以毁灭，毁灭会很难,需要很长时间。

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Such a list may be long but not infinitely so.

这个问题清单可能很长，但不会是无限制的。

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So it won't be hugely longer than the quizzes.

所以不会比小测验长多少。

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There's one more equation that I wanted to write down ... and I'm going to not-- I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining this because it's going to take awhile.

这里我想再写一个等式,当然我不会-,我不会花太多的时间解释这个,因为要花太长时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Of course, since the dialogue is indeed a dialogue, we don't always have the arguments laid out with a series of premises and conclusions.

由于仅仅是对话,我们不会看到一长串,有前提和结论的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It came into existence as part of, along with, the creation of my body, and it won't continue to exist, at least not very long, after the destruction of my body.

它的出现,是伴随着我身体的出现而产生的,在我死后它就不存在了,至少在我身体死亡之后不会存活很长时间

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It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

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It's very unlikely any of you would either but they go a long time without food, suggesting they do not want to cause this other chimpanzee pain.

你们也不会,但它们忍了很长时间才吃，这表明它们不想造成另一个黑猩猩受苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They say it's terrible because they'll have a kid and the kid'll grow up freaky and then the experimenter--it's an interview situation--says, "Well, no. Remember they're both using a lot of birth control."

他们说太糟糕了，他们会生小孩的,小孩长大会变怪胎的,然后向他们提问的实验者说，“不会，他们都做了避孕措施”

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