And in Economics, this is about firm's crowding together to try and get shoppers who are close to them.

在经济学中,他表现为商业普遍集中,以试图争取附近的客源

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And I'm trying to suggest that Milton's composition of this poem is actually doing something for him, that it gets him somewhere, and that it's functional in a genuine sense.

我试图设想弥尔顿的这首诗,实际上是在为他做一些事情，使他，能够真正的发挥某些作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He tries to define what that might be.

他试图为这个概念做出定义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He tries to defend his point of view by arguing in a famous passage that his policy of abstinence actually carries important benefits to the city.

他在其著名答辩中的立场,试图证明,其疏离策略,其实能为为城邦带来显著好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If the dualist were to start offering us some elaborate theory of consciousness, "Well, there's these sorts of soul structures, and those sorts of soul structures, and these create these sensations and those create those sensations.

如果二元论者试图,为我们提供一个详尽的意识理论学说,你看,这是灵魂的什么什么结构,那是灵魂的什么什么结构,这些产生了这种感觉,那些产生了那种感觉

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I mentioned earlier that we used to be on the gold standard and central banks were gold standard institutions that were trying to stabilize the economy but subject to the constraint that they had to maintain convertibility with gold but those central banks' role has changed a lot.

直至改变,我之前提到,我们过去是以金本位为基础的,并且中央银行也是以金本位为基础的机构,它们试图稳固经济,但是也在,保持金子的转换功能约束下。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选