While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

当现代诗歌以其各种方式极力想要操控现实时，奥登提醒我们--这在你们的讲稿上有，要小心诗歌会让人们一无所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So don't we need there to be something outside the body that programs the body? That could be the soul.

所以我们是不是也需要肉体的外部程序,来操控自身呢,那可能就是灵魂了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Peter wields the keys of the kingdom of heaven and can open and shut the doors of personal salvation, just as he can open and shut the doors of the church.

彼得挥舞着通往天堂极乐的钥匙,他可以任意打开关闭，凡人可借此得救的大门，正如他可以任意操控通往教会的大门一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Note the way Socrates manipulates the dialogue, the conversation.

注意看苏格拉底,操控对话的技巧。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And then deliver those computer signals either to guide the computer cursor on the screen or onto robotic arm to move the arm or perhaps even muscle stimulators to re-animate the paralyzed arm.

然后传递这些计算机信号,操控电脑屏上的光标,或者机器人手臂来活动手臂,或者甚至可能肌肉刺激器来让瘫痪的手臂重新动起来。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

It's really remarkable how far--how fast we have come from just knowing the structure of this molecule to be able to manipulate it and study it in great detail.

我们在短时间内取得了非凡的成就,从最初仅仅知道DNA分子的结构,发展到能够深入研究并加以操控它

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Must there be something outside the body that controls the body?

一定有某种物质在体外操控我们的躯体吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选