So when I say,you don't want to say that,you don't want to say that, we're going to run out of possibilities.

所以当我说，你不会想这么说这，说那，我们的可能性便要用完了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Voltaire went and hung out with Frederick the Great, and after a while he said, "Let me out of here."

伏尔泰曾经与腓特烈大帝来往,过了不久他便说,"我要离开"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

You can take heat energy and convert it to work energy and vice versa, and it doesn't say anything about that you have to waste heat if you're going to transform heat into work.

你可以把热能便成功,也可以反过来,但它对于如果你要把热变成功,就必须浪费热量这件事只字未提,它只是说这是能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

When God began this process of creating the heaven and the earth, And the earth was unformed and void, And his wind was on the surface of the deep and so on, He said, "Let there be light and there was light."

当上帝开始开创天地的过程，大地一片混沌，虚空无形，他的呼吸掠过这混沌的表面，他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A little later of course she, this nouvelle, this Lolita, my Lolita, was to eclipse completely her prototype.

当然片刻之后她，这个洛丽塔，我的洛丽塔，便要彻底遮蔽她天体的原色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's a force in itself that's much you know more powerful than we are as individuals.

自然本身便有如此大的威力,要比人类更加强大。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.

换句话说,富人们要扶危济困,便建立了储蓄银行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He orders you to wait. He is coming up behind you.

他要你们留步，他随后便到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Again,just to remind you,in order to get the intuitions actually flowing, what I'm going to do once I've separated the body and the personality this way, is torture one of the end products.

为了让你们得到最直观的感知，一旦把肉体和人格截然分开，我们便要折磨其中一个最终产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I will destroy, I will wreck their ways, That quiet may be restored. Let us have rest."

我要毁灭，要彻底破坏他们的行为，那样便可以重得安宁，我们就能安歇了“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's better translated this way: He said, 'Let there be light and there was light.'" And that translation suggests that the story isn't concerned to depict the ultimate origins of the universe.

这样翻译会更好：,他说，“要有光，于是便有了光“,这样说便表明故事并不旨在描述,宇宙最初的起源。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But then we have to ask-- so I'll throw the question out and we'll call it a day, start with this next time-- then we have to ask, ? would it really be better to know?

但是接下来我们要问-,我把问题提出来便结束今天的课程，下节课从这个问题开始-,接下来我们要问，知道了真的会更好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选