It turns out when we call string a string, we're really referring not to those characters but to the address, the location and memory of those characters.

当我说字符串时，我并不是指这些字符集,而是指地址，就是这些字符集在存储器中的位置。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?

不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说,运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Optimistic people, and again, not Pollyannaish detached optimism, but grounded optimists, on average, live significantly longer.

乐观的人，不是指盲目的乐天派，而是脚踏实地的乐观主义者，平均而言，明显更加长寿。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And what I referring to wasn't just the caboose but the whole long extended-through-space object.

我指的不仅仅是车尾,而是整个长长的,贯穿空间的物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this diagram shows what I simply labeled as a stem cell, so I'm not referring to any particular kind of stem cell now, but just a cell that has the stem cell character.

这张图示内容我就简单地标注为干细胞,现在我提到的干细胞不是特指哪种干细胞,而是指拥有干细胞特征的细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Not that particular one, but in general.

不是单指这个,而是所有的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

All right. Now de Man's early career was influenced -I'm not speaking of the very early career in which he wrote these articles, but the early career involving the essays which were collected in his first book, Blindness and Insight.

好了，德曼的早期事业被影响到了,我不是指最早的时期,他写这些文章的时期,而是指收集在他在创作第一本书里的论文的这个事业早期，他的第一本书叫，《盲点与洞见》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I mean, good for the person whose life it is.

而是指每个人的人生美好的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's rather, "Can you imagine a world in which the very thing that you really are picking out when you refer to me by the name Shelly-- namely this thing-- can you imagine a world in which that thing exists, but the thing that you're picking up when you use the word Kagan does not exist?"

而是在于,你能不能想象在一个世界里,你用薛立这个名字,指的那个人,也就是这个东西,你能不能想象在一个世界里某个东西存在,而你用卡根这个词,所指的这个东西却不存在

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