Having been affected personally so much by music and how music has shaped my life i am driven to deeply explore with that impact with other people.

个人来说，音乐对我的人生,产生了重大的影响,我决定对它为其他人带来的作用,进行深入研究。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

Hobbes gives us the definitive language of the modern state.

他对我们如何理解现代国家,具有决定性作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So you--it doesn't--this theory doesn't say a whole lot about what the term structure will look like but it suggests that it's determined by the interplay of lots of economic factors.

这个理论没有详细说明期限结构,期限结构是什么样子的,但它指出了这是由,经济因素间的相互作用决定的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This almost certainly is not the right story but again, just as in phobias, some ideas of classical conditioning may play some role in determining what we like and what we don't like sexually.

这个解释肯定是错的,但是，与在恐惧症中的作用相同，经典条件作用,或许对我们在性活动方面的喜恶,起着一定的决定作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

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