But don't imagine that these were anything like bloodless or easy.

千万别以为这样的伤亡程度不算什么

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What's a kilojoule between friends?

kJ不算什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选