Because I was taught good style, I'm giving that variable a name that conjures up the idea of its role, which is thankful or not.

因为我们学习了好的格式风格，我将给那个变量起一个,能使我们联想到它的角色作用，它是满意的或不满意的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The next passage: "Taste is the faculty of the judging of an object or a method of representing it by an entirely disinterested satisfaction or dissatisfaction."

下一篇：，“品尝是另一种判断事物或方法的感官作用,它表现为彻底的，公正的满足,或不满足“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What this is is learning the relationships between what you do and how successful or unsuccessful they are, learning what works and what doesn't.

操作性条件作用,是在学习行为与成功,或失败程度之间的关系，学习什么行为起作用,什么行为不起作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

According to the soul-theory argument for soul, rather,according to the argument for souls, you needed to believe in souls in order to explain how you could have a person.

根据灵魂理论的说法，或宁可说是灵魂作用的说法，人需要相信灵魂的存在才能解释作为人的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's the harmonic series that's on that, and what the valves do is they shorten and lengthen that vibrating column of air very much like the cello string on the fingerboard.

这就是圆号上的泛音列,活瓣的作用是增长或减短,空气柱的高度,很像大提琴指板上的弦

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And one of the puzzles of syntactic rules, or one of the issues of them, is that different rules can conspire to create the same sentence.

语法规则的一个谜团或问题是,不同规则可以共同作用来产生同一个句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选