And humankind receives its first set of explicit laws, no more implicit, "Murder is bad." "Oh I wish I had known!"

人类要接受明确的律法，而非隐晦的，谋杀是不好的，哦！我要是早知道就好了“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I want to show you how easy it is to change the code. But, notice, once I've added this I actually have a problem. This is now an under-constrained problem. I have more unknowns than I have equations.

我加上这个条件后,我马上面临一个问题了,这就是现在是一个非约束性问题了,我的未知数比方程数多,你从代数中可以知道。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I then assign thankful true, if so, but notice this little trick: -- I'm going to keep doing this while I am bang thankful -- bang exclamation point means "not," so this is shorthand, sort of clever elegant notation for "while I'm not thankful, keep doing this."

然后我给thankful赋true值，如果是这样，注意这里有个小技巧：,我将一直这样做，当我用满意时-,感叹号在这里的意思是“非“，这是一个可速记的，有几分机灵优雅的符号,用来说明：“当我不满意，保持这样做“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I'm going to mean something immaterial, something distinct from our bodies.

我的意思是指某些非物质的东西，某些区别于我们身体的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But I think this is rather an implausible suggestion because, of course, you could have these glorious views just by going up in the airplane and looking down from the safety of your airplane.

但我认为这是个似是而非的建议,因为，当然，你可能只是坐飞机向上飞,并安全地向下看,就会有这些迷人的视野。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.

即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选