Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I won't get into definitions of what torture is but it would cause somebody tremendous pain and anguish to keep them from sleeping.

我就不解释什么是施刑了,如果不让人睡觉的话,会给人造成巨大的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And they continue to support or to practice self-esteem as indiscriminate praise, ultimately hurting more than helping.

他们依然认为,提升自尊就要不加区别地赞扬，这最终造成的伤害大于帮助。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The knight's move--which is just a playful way of describing where the window is, right-- the knight's move is nonetheless a kind of wound or damage. So, even as it's the prototype for originality, it's also something very disturbing and harmful.

一位骑士走过，这只是开玩笑地描述,窗户的位置，对，骑士的走过不可能造成,受伤或损害，所以，即使作为独创性的模板，它还是包含一些干扰和有害的成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, by the way, I don't mean this as a joke, in some sense there's always a third candidate and that comes from the problem we had earlier, because not voting is always an option.

顺便说一句,我不认为某种程度上说,是有三个选举人是一个笑话,这是由于一些由来已久的问题造成的,因为不投票也是一种选择

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

These numbers are so low they could be dismissed as people filling in the wrong things or making jokes or just being confused compared to-- stunningly superstitious high rankings.

这些比例低到,可以把它们当成人们填错表格,或者开玩笑，或者看不懂题目造成的误差,相比于…,那些高得吓人的比例。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选