That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And then, I want to turn to objections to behaviorism but these three principles are powerful and very interesting.

之后，我还想讲讲对行为主义的反对,但这三个原则是非常重要的,也是很有意思的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We have a system, which you say it really-- The progressive tax system is very important but it's not conceptualized right.

我们有个制度，你们都觉得-,累进税制非常重要,但它被错误的概念化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.

但在很多方面，苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But the reason that I like that analogy is that it points out a very important part of spin, and that's the idea that it's a description of the electron.

但我喜欢这个类比的原因是因为,它指出了自旋非常重要的一面，那就是它是一种电子的描述。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If you move northwards along the Black Sea and southwards as well, Greek cities, not in the same number, they're fewer than they are in the places I've mentioned so far, but important ones.

倘若沿着黑海北上或者南下,也会看见希腊城市,但为数不多,比我目前所提到的所有地区都要少,但它们却非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Example, protein hormones are insulin which we've talked about before and glucagon, and growth hormone which we haven't talked about but that's very important during periods of life like adolescence, when rapid growth of your bones is occurring.

例如,我们以前讲过的胰岛素,还有胰高血糖素都是蛋白质激素,生长激素也是,尽管我们还没有讲过它,但它在人的青春期阶段,起着非常重要的作用,骨骼在此时期快速生长

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We get used to the ticking of a clock or to noise of traffic but it's actually a very important form of learning because imagine life without it.

我们习惯了钟的滴答声和车来人往的噪音,但这却是一种非常重要的学习形式,我们不妨试想一下无法进行习惯化的情形。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And, as you know, Einstein made many, many, many very important contributions to science and relativity, but he called this his one single most important contribution to science the relationship between energy and frequency and the idea of photons.

于这些波包里，你们也知道，爱因斯坦在科学和相对论上,做出了非常非常非常多的贡献,但它把这个叫做他对科学,最重要的贡献，就是能量和,频率之间的关系以及光子的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A theme of that book was that-- I've already said this to you, but it's a very important point-- financial technology is evolving and improving just the way engineering technology or biochemical technology is improving.

这本书的其中一个主题是...,尽管已经提过,但这非常重要,我想强调一下...,就是金融技术的演进过程,与工程技术或生物技术,的演进过程并无二致

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it is a great predictor of a second date.

但长相对关系的发展确实非常重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选