I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You're getting really the first time what I'm seeing "extreme have's" and starting to get "have not's"

我真的第一次亲眼看到“极富”和“极贫”现象。

纽约的负面变化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And I know there's debate on campus about the extent to which there is segregation within the Yale community.

我知道学校里有人在讨论,隔离的现象是否存在于,耶鲁大学里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But I think this definition is also limiting, and this is a phenomenon that I hope you will come to be familiar with.

但我认为这个解释也太局限了，我希望你们能逐渐熟悉这一现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, I infer the existence of atoms based on the fact that doing that allows me to explain things that need explaining.

所以说我推测原子的存在是基于,该假设使得我能够解释,所需解释的一些现象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I'll just say a word quickly, that don't underestimate the influence here of an ideology beneath this.

我要简单阐述一个单词,不要小看了这种现象下的,意识形态对此的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Since, I think that's just not going to happen right now.

因为，我认为,那个现象不会马上发生。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Now you may think, well I've seen that before.

我以前见过这种现象，拿一杯水放在这里。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Let me then just turn to this phenomenon that is the polis.

让我回到刚才提到的现象,就是城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The poor, who still make a great percentage of this country Now at the same time, it seems like there's this, I've heard a couple of people say it now, almost two Christianities.

穷人，仍然占美国的大多数,现在，好像有这样的现象出现，我听过一些人这样表述，有两个基督教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The lesson is, I think, that we have a glamour-city phenomenon-- that excitement about real estate prices-- centered in places like Los Angeles, but it's spreading and becoming more and more of a national phenomenon and that's the bubble.

我想,教训就是,一种"魅力之都"现象,刺激了房地产的繁荣,起始于像洛杉矶这种城市,随后广为扩散,逐渐演变成一种全国性的现象,这就是泡沫

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Modern poetry, as we study it in this class and, I think, as you see it in this anthology, is an international phenomenon.

我们课上学习的现代诗歌，你们在诗集中可以看到，我认为是一个国际现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So it's, I think people are very aware in the United...

因此，我认为人们已经意识到在美国的这种现象……

想要消除不平等 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I wish that that weren't the case, but people are selfish.

我不希望这种现象存在，但人都是自私的。

不平等的赞助入学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But there's other things that would allow me to explain that as well.

不过还有一些其他的东西,也可以帮助我解释这些现象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Okay. So let me describe to you this phenomenon.

我现在给大家描述一下这个现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Because doing that allows me to explain certain things.

因为那样做使我可以解释特定的现象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There's different theories about why, but my point right now is simply that people don't necessarily know this but still they're subject to this.

有很多不同的理论对这种现象进行了解释，不过现在我的看法是,人们并不理解这种现象,但却仍然会这样去做。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She is also a PhD candidate in Economics and is doing research on the behavior of options prices in a phenomenon called the "Options smile," as she's smiling at me right now.

她也在攻读经济学博士学位,目前正在研究"期权微笑",也就是,期权隐含波动率微笑现象中的价格变动趋势,她现在正对我微笑呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, I've talked to you essentially about the economic aspect of this phenomenon and I'd like to turn next-- give me a second here I just want to find out where I am in this.

至此我已经基本上给大家,讲完了这一现象的经济意义,接下来,让我想想,我们该讲什么了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When I posit the existence of atoms with certain structures and certain sort of ways of interacting and combining and building up, when I posit atoms, suddenly I can explain all sorts of things about the physical world.

当我假设原子以某种特定结构存在,以一定的方式相互作用,互相结合,集聚,通过假定原子存在,我立即就能够解释,物理世界中各种各样的现象了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What I primarily have in mind are sort of psychological and sociological questions about the nature of death, or the phenomenon of death.

首先我想到的是一些关于,死亡本质和死亡现象的，一些心理学和社会学的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We don't have the ideal world that I just described, but to some extent we do, so we want to think about diversifying in this world.

现实世界并不像我刚才说的那么理想，但在某种程度上这种现象还是存在的,所以同样也要考虑多元化的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And I'll briefly talk about a few of these phenomena.

我将对一些现象作简要阐述。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is true whether you look at the universe of the mutual fund managers that we might have available to us as individuals or whether it's institutional data, such as those that I just cited; that concept is survivorship bias.

的确如此,不论你在观察,可接触到的基金经理个人,还是观察一些机构数据,就像我刚引用过的那些,这个现象就是生存偏差

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Spoiler alert. And he has a standing offer, he says, "I'll pay whatever the amount is, $10,000 to the first person who can document some effect done in supernatural terms that I can't reproduce through trickery."

他给出一个长期悬赏,他说,我将不计报酬,给第一个在我面前展示,我用魔术无法再现的超自然,现象的人10000美元

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think it's an unfortunate practice.

我认为出现这种现象十分不幸。

不平等的赞助入学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Okay. I think these experiments are cute and I think there's an interesting phenomenon there.

我认为这些实验很可爱,我认为存在一个有趣的现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选