in a positive world bettering sort of way, or is that merely sort of nonsense to think about?

能够积极地改进这个世界，还是说他们的研究都是空洞的东西呢？

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It's actually kind of a crusade of mine-- I believe that the world needs more portfolio diversification.

事实上，这是我长期研究的一个方向-,我认为，世界需要更多元化的投资组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, this research suggests that infants' understanding of the physical world is there from the very start, but at the same time not entirely.

这个研究表明,婴儿从出生,就对物质世界有所理解,但同时这种理解并不完善

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That's the image of the world that you're working with.

这就是你们正在研究的世界的图景。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

By "Present," We mean-- we will pick some part of the universe we want to study and we will ask, "What information do I need to know for that system at the initial time, like, right now, in order to be able to predict the future?"

我们所说的"现在",意思是,我们会选取客观世界某一部分来进行研究,然后我们就会问,我们需要什么信息去了解,初始时刻的系统,比如现在,进而能使我们能够预测未来呢

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The interest there was what do--can we learn about this because there were populations all over the world starving and scientists wanted to know what was happening physiologically to people and then what was the best way to re-feed them when you got--when they got access to food again?

我们关心的是从这项研究中能学到什么,世界上有很多人还在忍饥挨饿,科学家们想知道,饥饿对人们生理上的影响,以及当饥饿的人重新拥有足够食物的时候,最好的进食方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Like Fish, Hartman is most interested in the similes of the first two books, the similes that provide some kind of window onto the world of Satan, and he focuses on the simile actually ; that follows the simile of Satan's shield that we've been looking at; it follows the simile of the spear that Fish had analyzed.

和费什一样，哈特曼对于,前两本书里的那些比喻，那些提供了，一种窥视撒旦的世界的途径的比喻最感兴趣，他集中研究了那些实际上,和我们在理解的撒旦的庇护有所关联的比喻;,这个比喻紧随着费什已经分析过的长矛的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You could--It's not difficult to study smiles in the real world.

在现实世界研究微笑不难。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema is the world's authority on depression, and in particular, on sex differences and depression, and she's going to talk about this towards the end of the course.

苏珊·诺伦·霍克西玛博士,是研究抑郁症方面的世界级权威专家,特别在两性差异和抑郁方面,她将在课程的最后为大家讲述这些

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And so, the behaviorist manifesto would then be to develop a science without anything that's unobservable and instead use notions like stimulus and response and reinforcement and punishment and environment that refer to real world and tangible events.

因此，行为主义者的目标,是建立一门科学,将一切不可观测的事情都排除在外,取而代之的是应用,诸如刺激，反应，强化，惩罚,以及表示现实世界和客观事件的环境,之类的概念来进行研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选