So any kind of ideas, I think any community is defined by its religiosity; they're still made up by normal individuals and human beings.

我想，任何的想法,任何的社会都是由其宗教信仰所定义的,它们仍然是由个人所组成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.

这就是索绪尔所贡献的了,能指和所指的关系,也就是符号的组成方式,是任意的，有差别的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What they cared about-- because the Roman Republic by this time was basically a bunch of very important households, wealthy men and their households, and they were the members of the Senate, they were the knight class, they were the people who ran Rome.

他们在乎的是。。。因为当时的罗马共和国,实际上就是一群举足轻重的家户，富有男子及其家户所组成，他们是元老院成员，是骑士阶级，罗马的统治者。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And what I'll mention to you just in terms of the fact that -- we're finally dealing with real molecules, which is -- or molecules that are made up of more than one atom, which is kind of exciting for me and maybe for some other of you that like to move into thinking about what some of the consequences of these molecules reacting might be.

而我将要告诉大家的是,我们终于开始与真正的分子打交道了，或者说由多于一个原子所组成的分子，这让我和你们中的某些人感到有些兴奋,因为我们更喜欢思考这些分子,经过反应之后可能出现的一些结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选