In other words, perhaps to your frustration, what you read today has nothing at all, in and of itself, to tell you about literature.

所以，听起来可能会让你们沮丧，你们今天读的，和文学根本没关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you're relentlessly selfish and calculating you would say, the chances that I decide the election are zero, so I'm just not going to bother.

如果你唯利是图,精于算计,你会说,我的投票能够决定选举的概率是零,所以我根本无需投票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The beat will do--control--that, so it's the pace or speed of the beat.

节拍才是根本,所以速度指节拍的快慢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now, I'm not introducing any genetic material at all so I don't have to worry about it replicating because there's no genetic material, all I do is deliver the particles.

这样就根本不用引入任何遗传物质,所以我也不需要担心它会复制,因为根本不存在任何遗传物质了,我所要做的只不过是接种部分微粒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now in fact, this may come as a surprise to you, I don't have ESP, I'm not a character out of the X-Men, so you can't actually see brain waves emitting from my head, and my reasoning doesn't affect your reasoning.

事实上,这绝对是不可能的,我没有超能力,我也不是X-Men,所以你根本看不到我大脑发出的脑波,我的推理不会影响到你

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They can't imagine -they don't have the power of imagination to think what the next crisis will be like, so it catches them by surprise.

他们无法想象,他们根本想象不出,下次危机爆发是什么样,所以危机发生时他们措手不及

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选