But they tried to do that only when they needed to do so to keep their absolute control.

不过他们只有需要保持绝对权力时,才会这么做。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But you get scaffolding; you get depth or perspective: counting thousands of stars, about some vast work that involved the whole order of the universe."

不过当你们看到脚手架时;,你们能够得到深度的认知：,数数数以千计的星星：,缓缓移动的星星,就像从事于某种,关系到全宇宙的秩序的建筑工作“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, I wouldn't have described it that way in the 1950s when I was doing this.

不过我当初不会这么描述那个时代,我当初研究时是五十年代。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Lloyds of London, which now does things like ensure quarterbacks' knees and things 685 00:36:00,852 --> 00:36:02,973 but it begins in the eighteenth century when people go into the docks.

伦敦的劳埃德市场,现在做一些,为四分卫的膝盖保险之类的事不过他们早在在十八世纪,航运业刚兴起时就开始做保险了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Certainly if you buy them out somewhere you're going to get one that's maybe the size of a light bulb, but it's like the flood light in your backyard or something, it's a huge light.

当然,你在外购买时,倒是有可能买到灯泡大小的,不过是你家后院强光灯大小的灯泡,巨大的灯泡

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But yet when you look at all of this, you can see that the kind of chaos, the political upheavals finds in response in the growth of central government authority and the growth of bureaucracies.

不过当你纵观全局时,你会看到这种混乱状态,特别是政治动乱是与中央政权,和官僚体系的发展紧密相关的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选