Today I have the impossible task of finishing the parts of the Republic that I have assigned for the class.

今天我有个不可能的任务,完成《理想国》剩余的部份,依照我指定给同学的进度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The absolute number that you assign to it is something that's arbitrary. You have to set what the zero is. And so there's a well-understood convention for what the zero is.

你指定给它的绝对值是有任意性的,你需要设定零点的位置,因此有一个经过充分研究的,关于设定零点的约定。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So we're going to assign to each stock, when we create it, a distribution.

所以我们在创建每只股票时，要给它们指定一中概率分布。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is just a little inelegant and so one of the things we'll introduce early on is this idea of abstraction or design whereby if you wanna represent the ideas of 0 and 1, true or false, well, let's give them a synonym like true or false.

这么说有点粗野,我要接着讲的是这种抽象的思想,或者用这个来描绘设计出,真和假的思想，我们可以给真假各指定一个同义词。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选