Making use of only our own reasoning, as opposed to whatever answers we might be given by divine revealed authority.

只用你自己的推测，与所有答案截然相反,我们可能被授予神圣的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And if you don't put a point but just put a number, this specifies the width of space that will be used by the number you're inserting there.

如果你不用点而只用数字，这个指定的长度是由,你插入的数字决定的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That's a most ludicrous word, really, in contemporary social science or orthodox Marxist, where you just had to say, "Well, eventually the proletariat will rise up, because the bourgeoisie did this before."

在当代社会学领域或者正统马克思主义里,这是一个非常愚蠢的做法,就好像你只用说,"最终无产阶级会起义,是因为以前资产阶级就这么干过"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, if you're looking back, say, from the end of the nineteenth century, it's not easy to see, but you can see these-- don't ever think that history runs on railroad tracks, and all you need is the timetable to show when modernization shows up.

所以,当你回顾历史,从十九世纪的末尾开始,虽然不太容易,但还是可以看出...,别以为历史是在固定轨道上行进的,别以为你只用拿时刻表,就知道新时代什么时候来临

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

You can also get away, as I said last time, with just putting parentheses in JavaScript and PHP, this is, in fact, the norm.

就像我上次说的，你也可以不用参数，在JavaScript和PHP中只用圆括号，这实际上是一个规范。

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