And the humor, such that it is, revolves around the ambiguity of rules that generate it, like this versus like this.

像这样的幽默,正是利用了创造幽默的规则的模糊性,像这样而不是那样

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Why do you think the UK uses its own currency instead of using Euros like in other European countries?

英国使用自己的货币，而不是像其他欧盟成员一样使用欧元，你怎么看待这个问题？

欧洲中的英国 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's much more interesting if you can actually build things that are interactive, that are animated, that play music and so forth and not just produce things on day 1 that outputs zeroes and ones like this.

如果你构建的东西是互动的,像动画，音乐播放等等，而不是编些像第一天那样,只是输出0和1的程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So the Hund's Rule is telling us to put the two electrons in separate orbitals unpaired as opposed to we should not put them in like this, like some librarian might want to fill nicely from left to right, up and down.

所以洪特定律告诉我们,要把这两个电子放在独立的轨道中,而不是像我们常做的那样，像一些图书管理员想要,把书从左到右，从上到下放得很好。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Because there are a lot more chemical-sounding things in that list of ingredients than there are things that nature would recognize or we would ordinarily recognize as food.

因为配料单里的很多东西,看上去更像化学成分,而不是我们通常认为的自然物质,或者常规意义上的食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It is both that which organizes a structure and that which isn't really qualified to organize anything, because it's not in the structure; it's outside the structure, something that imposes itself from without like a cookie cutter on the structure, right?

它既组织结构,又不真正地具有组织任何事物的资格，因为它不在结构之中，而是在结构之外，它将自己强加于结构之上,而不是像一个饼干成形切割刀一样，是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They're more like propositions, like speculations, that we're asked to test through empathic identification with, in this case, the poem's subject, Leda.

它们更像观点，像推测，而不是问题，叶芝问这些问题,以同情的口吻关注着，此诗的主题，丽达。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Right, because then everyone knows that there's going to be a death, whereas the cabin boy didn't know that this discussion was even happening, there was no forewarning for him to know that "Hey, I may be the one that's dying."

对，因为这样所有人都知道会有人死，而不是像之前派克被完全蒙在鼓里，根本没有人预先警告他,可能抽到是我死“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

you make a little hole, and go in with an instrument instead of making an incision.

医生会先打开一个小孔，将仪器伸进去。而不是像以前一样做一个切口。

MIT用数字说话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Well instead of forming droplets like fat they arrange in a very particular way, they form these structures that are called self-assembled structures because they occur naturally, because of properties of the lipids.

它们不是像脂肪一样形成液滴,而会细致地排列起来,它们形成的结构名为,自组装结构,因为它们能够自然生成,这归功于这种脂质的特性

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Well, it's not memorized as we think of it and you may have had music lessons along the way and your teacher and your mother said "Go memorize your piece." It's not memorized like that.

这完全不是想我们猜想的那样是靠死记硬背的,也许你上音乐课的时候,你的老师或和你妈妈会说,记下这一段,而这段音乐不是像那样靠死记硬背的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If this happened frequently enough, instead of just a little science fiction story like with the David Smith case, maybe we'd say,yeah,possession is one of these things that needs to be explained.

如果这种事情频繁发生，而不是像David，Smith案例般的科幻故事，也许我们就会说，没错，夺舍是一个亟待解释的事态。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

These DPPs go back a long time but there began to be complaints about them because people said, well why is it, because I'm not an accredited investor, I can't get into real estate like these other people do?

PP由来已久,但现在人们开始抱怨,他们说,我不是可信投资者,为什么仅凭此门槛,而不让我像别人一样投资商业地产呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's a little redundant, admittedly, but I include not the same function, but just its prototype, as I say in the comment here.

它确实是有点长的，但是我包含的不是同一个函数，而只是一个原型，就像我这里的注释所说的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

All right. Now as you read Iser you'll see immediately that in tone, in his sense of what's important, and in his understanding of the way in which we negotiate the world of texts he much more closely resembles Gadamer than Hirsch.

你们在读伊瑟尔时，立马可以感觉到,在他的语气，对重点的把握中,以及他对我们读懂文章的方法上的理解,他更像葛达玛，而不是赫施。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选