Their answers are often correct and often possessing stereotypes lets us make reasonable and correct generalizations about the world.

他们的答案通常是正确的,通常刻板印象能让我们合理地,正确地归纳世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If that's right, then it seems as though there'd be something irrational and inappropriate about simply disregarding those facts.

如果那是正确的，好像仅仅无视这些事实,有些不合理和不合适。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So again, we should be able to check all of our formal charges and make sure they add up to 0, which they do, and that makes sense, because we have a neutral atom in terms of thionyl chloride.

因此同样地，我们可以检验一下,我们所有的形式电荷是否正确,确保它们加起来等于零，而它们确实是这样，这是合理的，因为亚硫酰氯是一个中性原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选