They're making that because you need this protein insulin, it's a hormone, and it's important for sugar metabolism in your body.

它们产生胰岛素蛋白是因为你需要它,胰岛素是一种激素,它在糖代谢中起着非常重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

After his mother died, and so one theory is the role in his life is his mother and his loss of her.

他母亲去世后，有一种理论说,他的母亲和母亲的死在他生活中起了重要作用。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well, it turns out that proteins are essential in driving this process too.

事实表明蛋白质在这个过程中,也起了重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It plays a big role in gravitation, in the Coulomb interaction.

它在引力和库仑力中都起着重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.

这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The claim that Freud would make is that the woman's discovery that she lacks the penis plays a fundamental role later on determining her allegiances in life and in fact her own sexual preferences and interests.

弗洛伊德会认为,女性发现其身体缺少阴茎的这件事,会在决定其日后的生活忠诚度,及自身的性取向和性偏好中,起到重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's also about: how banks operate; what their function is in our society; and, why they are such important institutions that have gone back for hundreds of years and remain powerful, central features in our economy.

也会讲到,银行如何运作,银行在社会上的功能,以及为什么几百年来,银行依然在经济生活中拥有,重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So we learned the very first time that in the Prisoner's Dilemma communication per se won't help, but in the coordination problem, which could be just as serious socially as a Prisoner's Dilemma, in a coordination problem it may well help.

在第一讲里我们就学到了,在囚徒困境中沟通不起作用,但是在和囚徒困境具有,同样重要社会意义的协和谬误中,交流却能够起到作用

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mechanisms like habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning are real; they can be scientifically studied; and they play an important role in the lives of animals and probably an important role in human lives as well.

诸如习惯化，经典条件作用，操作性条件作用之类的机制,都是真实存在的;,这些机制都能得到科学的研究;,它们在动物的生活里起到了重要的作用,或许在我们人类的生活中,也同样起到了重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, So, you have these maps in your head but the thing to realize is— And these maps are part of your cortex, but the things to realize is that's an important part of what goes on in your brain but less than one quarter of the cortex contains these maps or projection areas.

你的脑袋里存在着这些定位图,但你们会发现,这些定位图是你大脑皮层的一部分,但你们会发现,这是在你的大脑活动中,起到重要作用的一部分大脑皮层,不过只有不到四分之一的大脑皮层,存在这些定位图或是投射区

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选