But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.
但是出身很好,于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。
and I live with this very nice girl, my roommate who writes plays for a living and works at a theater.
我和一个女孩一起住,她人很好,在剧院工作,靠写戏剧为生,
Most people--And everybody was tapping the beat just fine and dandy, but notice up here nobody is playing the beat.
大部分人,每个人都打得很好,但你们有没有注意到没有人打在拍上
It's imperfect, though the English is quite spot on, I call myself during this lecture a couple of times a major government because gov major didn't quite translate very perfectly.
尽管英语是正确的,但翻译成其他语言难免有出入,在这个讲座期间,我多次说自己是学政治专业的,因为学政治的人翻译不是很好。
All right, so how many think The Simpsons is actually, apart from liking it, is actually the higher experience?
好,那么有多少人不但喜欢《辛普森一家》,还认为它其实就是更高级的体验?
Nobody is going to say to themselves, "Oh, well, it's not such a good talk because the slide projector broke."
没有人会觉得,”这个演讲不是很好,因为投影机坏了“
I know, for a lot of you, it's like, OK, I got a heavy problem. Let's see, def Foobar open paren, a bunch of parameters.
我知道这对你们中的大多数人来说,应该没问题了,好,这儿我碰到了,一个严重的问题,我们看看,一堆参数。
I lived in Europe for almost 4 years and I would say not just in some ways, but perhaps in all ways, we have done that.
我在欧洲生活了将近4年,我想说,不止是在一些方面,而或许是在所有方面,我们做得都好于欧洲人。
So, let's make sure everyone kind of has this down, let's do another clicker question here.
好,让我们确保每个人都记下了这点,来做下一个选择题吧。
fancy restaurant Right, because you waste your money if you're buying these little portions of healthy food.
宰人的高档餐厅,很好,因为一旦你购买了这些量很少的,健康食品你就是在浪费金钱
Can a person be both as it were a good man ? a good person and a good citizen?
一个人可以是好人,又是好公民吗?
Wouldn't it be nice if language in some sense were my own?
你会想如果语言是我一个人的就好了?
Very good yes, and that's a big argument that nobody has a good answer for.
好问题,还没有人给出令人信服的答案
You might say, well what's the person who studied chemical metallurgy doing teaching chemistry here? Well, after my Ph.D., MIT I came here as a postdoctoral fellow in 1977.
你们可能会问,这个学习,化学冶金学的人怎么会在这教,化学呢,好吧,在我拿到博士学位后,1977年我作为一名博士后来到了。
Okay, a good number of you. Now we're seeing some hands up.
很好,这次举手的人多了
So how did you settle disputes when they fight and disagree, say, Executive Secretary Rumesfeld, who is a fellow Princetonian both went to Princeton, but he wouldn't be the easiest person to deal with.
在他们争论和出现分歧的时候,你是怎么解决的呢,比如说行政秘书拉姆斯菲尔德长吧,你们俩是普林斯顿的校友,但是他在工作中并非很好对付的人。
I think what is better particularly in countries like your own, where you have more people on the internet.
我想像你们国家的就比较好,有比较多的人上网。
So God is repeatedly testing and correcting the Israelites until they are ready for the Promised Land.
因此上帝屡屡地考验且纠正以色列人,只到他们准备好了前往应许之地。
All right, but would it not tell sometime later?
好了,这之后会被人知道吗?
But a wonderful book, very well-written, very accessible in the spirit of positive psychology.
但是本很棒的书,写得非常好,让人很容易理解积极心理学。
Right, now are there people here that have not had chickenpox, right?
好,现在这里的人,有人没得过水痘,是吧
Although I am skeptical about that claim, I am going to continue giving it to the person who makes this argument, because I'm not so prepared to admit that you can't picture being dead.
虽然我本身对这个说法表示怀疑,我还是要继续,依照提出的这个论点,因为我还没有准备好承认,人无法想象死亡这件事。
How many think it's in triple meter? Okay.
多少人认为是三拍子呢,很好
Through Yale you know a lot of people and they don't have to be close friends but they are acquaintances.
通过耶鲁,你能认识很多人,这些人不一定是亲密的好朋友,他们只是相识的人。
All right. We've got a big majority, and both are logical ways of thinking, but it turns out that the majority is correct, which is not always the case, but the electron is not ejected in this case.
好,大多数人都这么认为,这两种看法都是合乎逻辑的,但结果是大多数人是对的,这种情况不经常发生,但是电子在这种情况下,确实不会被逐出。
All right. Now, suppose everyone agrees to the lottery, they have the lottery, the cabin boy loses, and he changes his mind.
好吧,假设每个人都赞同抽签,抽签结果是派克输了,但他改主意了。
And also in terms of people saying, Well, you know what, that's all well and good because this is really fundamentally a Christian nation.
另外一些人说,现在这样很好,因为美国从根本讲,是一个信仰基督教的国家。
All right so these people, stay up a second so the camera can see you.
总共就这些人,站好,让摄像机拍一下你们
Anybody want to vote? Pardon? All right, someone wants to remove MIT. Sad but true.
有人想投票么?嗯?好,有些人想移除MIT,节哀吧。
Okay, the overwhelming majority of people say they have not.
好吧,绝大多数人说他们没听过
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