For that reason, if you wanted to win a court case, it helped-- - or have somebody represent you in politics or all kinds of things-- it helped to have strong patrons.

所以如果你想赢诉讼-,最好找人在政治及其他事务上代表你-,有个强大的庇护人很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And, by the way, this business on working on every problem is important because I have seen some people who start working on number one, but that is not their strong suit.

另外，解决每个问题的事情,是很重要的,因为我看到一些人,从第一个开始工作，但这不是他们的强项。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And I actually think it's probably important for anybody who wants to do a startup, anybody who wants to join a place like Microsoft and work on an established or a new product.

实际上我想这对任何想创业的人,来说应该都很重要，任何想加入微软这样的公司,为新老产品工作的人都是这样。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

The nationality of that identity is important that is Yeats's Irishness and so is Yeats's audience His ambition is to become the first major Irish poet writing in English.

这种民族的认同感很重要,它关乎他的爱尔兰人特性和读者群,他的目标是成为第一个最重要的,用英语写作的爱尔兰诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Moderation is this wonderfully great important thing for the Greeks.You must act in moderation.

谦卑对希腊人来说是很重要的品质,人必须表现得谦逊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If we had perfect financial markets-- and this is intuitive-- and I don't know how obvious this is, it's obvious to me, but it's an intuitive point of great importance-- nobody would suffer alone.

如果我们有完善的金融市场-,这就很直观-,我不知道这有多直观，至少我觉得显而易见，这是一个很重要的观点-,也就是，没有人会独自承担风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And sociologists point out that for a lot of aspects of your life, like getting a job, acquaintances matter, connections matter, and the connections you establish by going to a place like Yale hold you in good stead for the rest of your life, above and beyond any intellectual qualities that this place may offer.

社会学家指出，在你生活里很多方面，例如找工作，相识的人很重要，关系很重要，你去一个像耶鲁这样的地方建立的关系,能为你的余生带来好处，比这个地方教给你的知识更有好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But for the Greeks it was very important that things should be really official.

而对希腊人来说,仪式感是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选