We are not talking about the cure for cancer, but it does have it within it to help us make sense of things.

虽然诗歌不能治愈癌症,但它确实能够帮助我们理解事物。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And so, it would be a shame for me not to use them to cover some of these issues.

如果不能请到他们来帮助我教授这些主题,那可就太可惜了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Not all the technologies that we need to help people To learn better are necessarily available today.

我们今天还不能获得所有我们需要的技术,用来帮助人们更好地学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Well, you'll know when it crashes, that doesn't help you very much, but you can't always tell whether something's stuck in an infinite loop or whether it's simply taking a long time to compute.

好，你将学到它在什么时候会崩溃，这对你帮助并不大，但是你不能辨别出到底是在一个循环中,有什么东西卡住了呢,还是程序需要很长的时间来计算一个结果呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It turns out that Utnapishtim can't help him, and we'll come back to Utnapishtim later in the flood story, and Gilgamesh is devastated.

结果他并不能帮助吉尔伽美什，等一会，我们在洪水的,故事中，还会提到Utnapishtim，吉尔伽美什几乎绝望了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And if the best that the soul theorist has is, "Maybe we need this to explain something that I don't see how you guys can explain, maybe this would help, though I can't quite see how either," that's not a very compelling argument.

如果灵魂主义者最为充分的理由是,或许我们需要灵魂来解释些,我认为你们不能解释的东西,或许这样能有些帮助,尽管我也不清楚怎样用灵魂解释,这就不是一个很有说服力的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So I can't use thinking about the Williams cases as a method of deciding what do I really believe, the body view or the personality view?

因此我不能采用Williams的案例,来帮助我们判断我们应该相信哪种理论，肉体理论还是人格理论？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选