How long do you have to be around a person to see him, to estimate how good a lecturer that person is?

你要看一个人多久，才能评估出他讲课有多好？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Do you think actors are born with the talent, or can it be developed with the education?

你觉得演员是天生就有演戏的才能，还是可以通过训练培养呢？

演技要磨练出来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What they have to do in order to feed the population, you have to have more land.

要怎么做才能养活这么多的人呢,你得有更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This time, you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients, each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive.

这次你是一名器官移植医生，你有五名病人，每名病人都急需器官移植才能存活。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You have to be a big company to do it and if you have a big company you've exhausted the risk of-- never goes away completely.

你的公司得够大才能做保险这项业务,如果你有个大公司你就能减小风险,不太容易被风险击垮

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's not the idea. The idea is you do it because you have ideas.

那不是一个好主意,只有你有主意才能这样做。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Whether it gets outweighed easily, or whether it's very, very difficult and the contents have to be horrible to outweigh it, depends on how much value you think being alive per se has.

不管是轻易被超越，还是它很困难被超越,还是生活内容要非常糟糕才能超越它，这取决于你认为生活本身有多少价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I mean sometimes if you have things that are a mixture of foods, like you go out for Chinese food or you have a casserole somewhere, or you have some dish of vegetables mixed together, how do you make sense of that when it comes to entering these things into a record.

我是说,有时候有一堆食物在你面前,如出去吃中餐,或你面前有一份大杂烩,又或者是很多蔬菜混合在一块,在输入饮食记录的时候,怎样才能让你输入的东西有意义呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That means, when I take two derivatives, I want to get a, then you should know enough calculus to know it has to be something like at^, and half comes from taking two derivatives.

也就是说,当我想求二阶导时,得到了a,你应该有足够的微积分知识,才能知道必须有类似at^的项,而这个1/2则是因为求了两次导数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If you've done a lot prior programming, this is probably not the best course for you, and if you're in that category, I would please encourage you to talk to John or I after class about what your goals are, what kind of experience you have, and how we might find you a course that better meets your goals.

如果你做过很多编程工作，这门课也许不适合你，如果你属于这一部分人的话，我会鼓励你下课以后找我,或者John谈谈你的目标何在，你有过什么经验，还有我们怎么才能给你,找到更适合你目标的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And what the physicalist would need to do for each one of those-- For each one of those you can imagine a dualist who says, "We need to believe in a soul so as to explain seances.

对于这些东西,物理主义者该怎么做,对于这些,你可以想到二元论者会说,我们需要相信有灵魂才能解释通灵

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选