to earn his favor and perhaps his protection, But even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.

来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的,事实上，他也许会被打败，或者发动他的崇拜者。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And it's her only her humility, the sense of not being able to, that allows her space to be able to do what is proposed to her by the angel Gabriel.

但最终是她的谦卑，对自己,能力有限的认知，才使得,她接受天使加百列的提议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So if earnings go up a lot, we'll raise our dividends, but only part of the way up.

所以若收益大幅提高,我们会增加分红,但增量有限

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Actually, those guys would be useful, not so much, hardly at all during the scrum of the phalanx, but should one side be retreating.

尽管远程兵种的作用有限,尤其是双方混战时几乎形同虚设,但当一方撤退时,他们的作用就显现了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The next phase, concrete operations, from seven to twelve, you can solve the conservation problem, but still you're limited to the extent you're capable of abstract reasoning.

下一阶段,具体运算阶段,七到十二岁,儿童可以解决守恒问题,但儿童的抽象推理能力仍然有限

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's perfectly fine, but they envy us for our finite lifespans, because what we've got and they don't have is something that's for each individual rare-- something that's not lasting, something that's precious in that way.

不朽很好，但他们羡慕我们的有限寿命，因为我们有而他们没有的是,对每个人来说稀有的东西-,不会永远持久的东西，从那个层面讲珍贵的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I mean a blanket term, a guiding concept, a transcendental signified, something that explains the nature of the structure and something also, as Derrida says, which allows for limited free play within the structure; but at the same time the structure has this kind of boundary nature.

是一个概括性称呼，一个引领概念，一个超验所指，它解释了这个结构的内涵，正如德里达所说，它允许在结构内有限的自由游戏;,但同时这个结构也有限性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

as long as it's small and finite, will lead to some small infinite errors in the formula, but remember it's got to be in the end made to be vanishingly small.

只要它只是有限小,就会在公式中引起无限小的误差,但请记住,Δt最后变得难以察觉地小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

There's a finite number of notes but a limitless number of musical compositions.

音符的数量是有限的,但乐曲的数量却是无限的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

DNA also has this sort of combinatorial system where you have a finite number of, I guess, bases or amino acids that could combine to a possible infinity of strings of DNA strings.

脱氧核糖核酸也拥有这种组合系统,你的生物基础或氨基酸数量是有限的,但却能组合出,几乎无限的脱氧核糖核酸螺旋结构

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, the legacy from the Mycenaeans to Greek civilization later is very limited. But what there is, is very important and no part of it is more important than the Homeric poems themselves.

现在看来,从迈锡尼文明,继承的希腊文明遗产,十分有限,这些有限的部分都很重要,但没有任何一部分比荷马式的史诗本身更重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is no reference, in any of the tablets-- I don't know how much we can make of that because the tablets limit themselves to such limited kinds of things that maybe it doesn't prove anything, but in this case, I think it does.

在所有陶土碎片的文字中都没有注释,我不知道我们能够理解多少,况且陶土碎片可供记录的空间有限,也许它们不能证明任何东西,但在这里,我想至少可以证明一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选