We are not talking about the cure for cancer, but it does have it within it to help us make sense of things.

虽然诗歌不能治愈癌症,但它确实能够帮助我们理解事物。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is very simple but it's a great way to ask about a specific category among many different categories.

这是个非常简单的句型，但它在询问不同种类中某一特定类型的事物时是非常理想的句型。

What kind of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

God imposes order on the demythologized elements that he finds: Water, but it's just water.

上帝使他所见的无传奇色彩的事物秩序井然：,水，但它只是水流。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We can certainly think about the forms, but if they're non-physical they can't be grasped by something physical like the body.

我们当然能想象型相,但假如他们是非现实的,他们将不能被现实的事物,比如肉体,所认知

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There will in fact never be a good time to try something new, and there will actually never be a semester where you do have that more time.

实际上我已经没有机会尝试新事物了，而且也不用过学期了,但你们有更多的时间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

What this entails is just trying to stop controlling things, but I also mistake it a little bit because by stopping controlling things, you're going to control it more.

必须的是,试着放手不去控制事物，但这也是个悖论,因为想不控制事物，反而会加强控制。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So you're marching forward at that pace, but now as you get closer and closer to each other, various items begin to affect your behavior.

所以大家步调一致地突进,但当你越来越接近对方时,各种事物开始影响你的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

To me, when you read the detail you're getting into something deep and important about the way everything works and so I start to find it interesting.

对我来说,但你读到细节时,你就会了解到事物机制中,一些深刻并重要的东西了,所以我觉得它很有趣

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There seems to be a doubt, a variety of doubts, about the foundations of what we can think about the basis of our opinions, that pervades theory, and is seen somehow or another to characterize its history.

有些事物，是我们思想的基础和看法的依据,但理论中却充斥着对它们的质疑，而这些质疑也被视为理论的特征之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think they sort of really understand that maybe sometimes they see things to them they don't quite understand what it is because it's not familiar to them, but it's sort connect to your own life.

我认为他们,知道有时候,自己看到一些事物不理解,是因为,对那些事物不熟悉，但他们与你的生活相联系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But it's a different way of approaching things.

但这是研究事物的一种不同方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I am always already in possession of an interpretation of whatever object I look at, which isn't at all to say that my interpretation is correct.

我总是对我所看的任何事物,已经有了一定的解读，但不能说我的解读是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We've expanded the list of goods that can go within your life, but for all that, we've still been acting as though the neutral container theory is the right approach.

我们扩展了生活中美好事物的定义，但除此之外，我们的观点仍然是基于,中性容器理论是正确的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Although we need to offer a story about what makes the parts work when they're connected with each other and interacting in the right way, there's no need to appeal to anything beyond the physical.

尽管我们还需要探讨,是什么因素,使得各部分在正确的连接方式下,可以正常工作,但无需诉诸于物质之外的事物

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But for all that, they're separate things.

但总的来说,它们依旧是不同的事物

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选