And that was only possible because, besides using the sea, the shipping lanes for travel, which was much faster than overland travel, the Romans maintained roads.

之所以能达到这个数字，原因之一是走海路，用海洋航路运输，比陆路快得多，另一个原因就是修路。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now, Milton understands the problems besetting ; what we could think of as the poem's confused temporality; he understands this a lot better than we do.

现在，弥尔顿明白了我们,认为诗歌暂时性混乱问题的原因所在;,他比我们要明白的多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, Piaget fared a lot better than did Freud or Skinner for several reasons.

皮亚杰要比弗洛伊德或是斯金纳成功很多,原因有以下几点

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

One study estimated that 1.1% of men and .5% of women, for some reason more common among men than women, but in both sexes are pathological gamblers.

研究估算有1.1%的男性,和0.5%的女性天性嗜赌,基于某种原因,对此男性比女性更普遍,但在男女群体中都存在病态赌博

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The reason for that was that in the east and in south, the Greeks lived among people who were more civilized than they, who were more advanced.

究其原因,在东方和南方,希腊人生活在比他们更文明,更先进的民族中间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Gram for gram it provides a lot more punch in terms of calories than protein or carbohydrate, and that could be why fat has such an appeal to human physiology and why people like high fat foods.

每克脂肪比蛋白质或碳水化合物,提供更多卡路里的热量,这是人类身体对脂肪如此渴求的原因,人们为什么如此喜欢高脂食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The reason this an exception is because it turns out that half filled d orbitals are more stable than we could even predict.

这个例外的原因是因为,半填充d轨道比,我们预期的填充方式更加稳定。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

STUDENT: So, the string A is less than three, is false because they're comparing like ASCII values?

学生：字符串A比数字3小，是false的原因是因为对他们,进行了ASCII值的比较么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There's another argument descartes could have made that's a lot less subtle than the ones he did make, which is "That thing responsible for free will and love and consciousness?

笛卡尔本可以指出一个,比他所举论据,更为巧妙的论据,也就是,"这东西会是引起自由意志,爱恋,与意识的原因吗

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As you can see, part of the reason why the dividend-earnings ratio-- especially in more recent years, since 1990-- has been declining is that corporations were trying to somewhat ease the tax burden on their shareholders by doing repurchase instead of dividend.

可以看出,股利收益比降低的部分原因,尤其是在近些年,从1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通过将分红,改为股票回购的方法,多少减轻股东的税负

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, there's a whole lot of sensory organs, for instance, focused along your tongue, and that's why that's so big, and an enormous amount on your face but your shoulder isn't even— doesn't even make it on there because although your shoulder might be bigger than your tongue, there's not much going on.

比如,在你的舌头上,集中存在着非常多的感觉器官,也就是这片区域如此之大的原因,你的脸上也有数量庞大的感觉器官,但你的肩膀并没有,你的肩膀甚至都没有在示意图中标示出来,因为,尽管你的肩膀要比你的舌头更大,但却并没有什么感受器官

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And the reason is simply because the energy that Z we gain in terms of moving up in z, 5 so from going to z equals 4 to z equals 5, -- is actually outweighed by the energy it takes to go into this new shell, to go into this new sub shell.

原因很简单,就是因为我们通过提升，所得到的能量--从，Z，等于，4，到，Z，等于，事实上比填充到这个新的壳层,新的亚壳层，所消耗的能量更多。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So that's why Yale is much more generous with financial aid than other universities and why we have beautiful -of course, this room was built,I believe, in the 30s.

这就是为什么耶鲁在助学金方面,比其他高校要慷慨的原因,也是为什么我们有美丽的...,当然,这间教室应该是建于30年代

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You should see that the blue line is better than the pink line because, for any expected return, the blue line is to the left of the pink line, right?

可以看到蓝线比粉线好,原因是对于任意的预期收益率，蓝线都在粉线的左边，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选