Absolutely. Confined settings, very confined settings, absolutely. Yes. What else? Yes.

对的，既定的设置，非常限定的设置，对的，还有什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He had a point because philosophy distances us from conventions, from established assumptions, and from settled beliefs.

因为哲学的确将我们与习俗，既定假设以及原有信条相疏离。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's not just taking what's given by the insurance company.

而不局限于保险公司的既定投资计划

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The primacy of reason and the pursuit of objectivity, therefore, both characteristic of the Western experience seem to me to be essential for the achievement of the desired goals almost anywhere in the world.

理性至上和追求客观,这是西方经验的两个特征,在我看来,这两点几乎在世界任何地方,对既定目标的实现都是至关重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the Hobbesian sovereign, unlike umpires, are not just the enforcers of the rules or the interpreters of the rules, the sovereign is also the creator, the shaper and maker of the rules.

但他的这一君权理论，与足球裁判的不同之处在于,他言下的君主，不仅是既定规则的执行者，还是这些规则的直接制定者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选