In order for a more or less round plate to remind me of roundness, Plato says, I have to have already met perfect roundness itself.

如果一个或多或少,有点圆的盘子能让我想到正圆,柏拉图认为,我必须已经见过完美的圆本身了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.

战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If you followed a diet where you ate less junk food and ate more fruits and vegetables, for example, just those two little rules you would help shift around this balance of sugars in a way that would benefit health.

如果你遵循一个饮食原则,比如,少吃垃圾食品多吃水果和蔬菜,仅仅这么简单的两条,就会在一定程度上帮你调节糖类摄取平衡,这个对健康有好处

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

One person might be a little low one day, another person might be high, a lot of people might-- you might happen to have captured them on an average day, but overall it averages out, so you get a representative sample.

一个人可能某一天少吃些,另一个人可能多吃些,很多人都会这样,你可能正好得出人们,平均每天的摄入量,但把它的整体平均一下,就得到有代表性的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选