Whatever you're reading, it's always worth thinking about and considering what the motives might be for such extraordinary literary risk taking.

不管是读什么，想想作者,为什么会不惜冒这么大的险,总是有意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, fuel economy and environmental conservancy make a lot of sense if you care about such things, of course.

所以，油价和环境保护,是很有意义的,如果你关心这样的事，当然会更好。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We all have our version of trying to wrestle with this: if God knows what you're going to do tomorrow, to what extent does it make sense to say that what you do tomorrow you do freely?

我们都有自己试图解决这个问题的方式：,如果上帝压根儿就知道我们明天要做什么，那么，说着明天会自由的从事自己想做的事情,究竟又有什么意义呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So in the sense there is opportunity, and there may be more opportunity in the long run even if kind of the entrepreneurial opportunities are less frothy than they might have been in the short run.

因此从这个意义上讲现在是大好时机，长期来看会有更多的机遇,如果创业的机会不像短期机遇,看起来那么空洞的话。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Economically identical, but their prices would fluctuate and fairly dramatically.

它们在经济意义上是相同的，但是他们的价格,会有波动，而且非常剧烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It could be very valuable.

会很有意义的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I mean, if you do the--If you look at the results for the study, it turns out that there is an association as bias to view white Americans as positive and African Americans as negative but it shows up in half a second difference.

如果你看这些研究的结果，你会发现人们有一种偏见,把白人和积极的意义联系在一起,把黑人与消极的意义联系在一起,你只有看这半秒的差别，才能发现这种偏见。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And there will be a different exam in the afternoon, but I think it only makes sense for you not to discuss the paper with people that are taking it in the afternoon.

在下午会有个不同的考试，但是我想仅仅是对你有意义,而不是和别人,讨论下午正在考的试卷。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选