So if I take away the quotation marks, all I have is the word with no indication that it's a concept.

所以如果我拿掉引号，剩下的就只是这个词而不指示一个概念了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I want you to talk about them. But I don't expect you to become an English major in order to do that if you're not already one.

我不指望你因为要读这些而主修英语,如果你们现在主修的并不是英语的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

bug And maybe by understanding why it worked on a and not on b, you'll get a lot of insight that you won't if you just focus on the bug.

发现很多东西，而你只关注,本身的话就发现不了这么多东西,如果知道你的程序至少还对。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So each of these cups again have different weights if I want to find the lightest of them I might start not knowing which is which.

它们的重量互不相同，如果我要,找出最轻的一个，而我根本不知道会是,哪一个。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

right, he's saying, wouldn't it be great just to have it there before us?

是的，意思是如果仅仅面对某事物而不去思考不是很好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If a food never had trans fat in it but it gets labeled as having no trans fat, does that increase your perception of how good that food is for you?

如果某种食品不含反式脂肪酸,而上面也贴着不含反式脂肪酸的标签,它是否会提高你对这个食品的认知呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You see, if they give the-- if they merely give shares to the CEO without increasing your shares, then you are being diluted because it's raising the total and it's reducing the ratio.

如果他们仅仅给首席执行官股份,而不给你们增发股份的话,那么你们的股份会因总数增加而被摊薄,比例有所降低

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And if that's an appealing argument that you have to be in an altered mindset to do something like that, it suggests that people who find that argument convincing do think that they were acting immorally.

而如果只能用这样的辩词,说只有人精神状况不正常，才会干出那种事，这也就意味着，那些觉得该论证有说服力的人们,其实是认为他们行为是不道德的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Secondly, as we go to the more advanced part of the course, we'll take a result from this part of the blackboard, stick it into the second part and keep manipulating, so if I screwed up in the beginning and you guys keep quiet, we'll have to do the whole thing again.

其次,随着我们课程的深入,我们需要把黑板这边的计算结果,抄到黑板的那边,不停地这么做,如果我一开始就写错了,而你们又不出声,我们就得全部重新来过

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So a number of you, even if the price was just a tiny bit different might have a preference for one rather than the other, so without getting in trouble by putting the camera on you, how many of you would have a preference, if the prices were essentially the same how many of you would have a strict preference for Pepsi?

那么你们中的很多人,尽管价格只有一点点不同,也许还是倾向于其中一个产品,不让你们上镜头而招来麻烦,你们谁会有倾向,如果价格差不多,谁会倾向选择百事可乐

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Some fact about us that calls out for explanation, and the claim on the part of the dualists was, we couldn't explain it without appealing to a soul.

有些关于我们的事实需要解释,而二元论者的主张是,如果不诉诸灵魂,我们就无法解释这些

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the thought, of course, is that the robot or the computer is a deterministic system and you can't have free will if you're a deterministic system.

那个想法,当然,是说机器人和电脑只是一种决定论的系统,而如果你是个决定论系统的话,就不可能有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That doesn't prove that the argument fails, but it does mean that you're going to have your work cut out for you if you're going to use this route to arguing for the existence of a soul.

但这并不表明这个论证就不成立,而它确实意味着,如果你要用这种途径,来证明灵魂存在的话,你需要有人帮你解答疑团

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so we've got a--we could imagine then a-- Descartes-like argument saying, "If I can imagine the Evening Star without the Morning Star, that shows the Evening Star and the Morning Star must be two different heavenly bodies."

所以我们得到一个,我们可以想象一个,笛卡尔式的论证,如果我能想象昏星存在而晨星不存在,这就证明了昏星,和晨星肯定是两个不同的天体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选