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In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.
实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。
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Like, I mean, in my junior year I took a class where there were like six people in the class
就像，我是说，我大三的时候我上的一门课有六个人，
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The second thing I want to say is less about paper writing, and more about the trajectory of this course and what we're seeing in common between these novels.
第二件我想说的事情是，不是关于写论文的，而是关于这门课的轨迹的,我们会在这些小说里看到一些共同点。
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So while you're filling that out, let me tell you a little bit about what we're going to be doing here.
你们一边写一边听我说,我来简单地介绍一下这门课
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It is, well, it's a great poem. There are lots of them that when I first started teaching this course I decided I wouldn't teach.
它是一首伟大的诗，有很多诗都是,我开始教这门课的时候就决定不去说这首诗。
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If someone comes to your home and says, I would like to sell you life insurance.
如果有个人敲开你家的门并对你说,我是来向您出售人寿保险的
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Agamemnon gets furious with Achilles and he says, "No, I'm not giving back my girl.
阿伽门农听罢怒火中烧,他说,"我绝对不会把这姑娘送回去
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This, by the way, is another property I expect people to know in this course.
顺便说一句,这是这门课我想让大家了解的另一个性质
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This course, as I said, will emphasize psychology, biology, and politics of food.
这门课,正如我说的,将着重讨论,有关食品的心理学,生物学和政治学
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I'm saying, "Look, yeah, that's an important part of the class.
我是说，嘿，听着，那是这门课很重要的一部分。
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And I guarantee you if you do those three things throughout the course that you'll do well in the course and I've said this almost every time I've given the course and nobody has ever told me that I'm wrong.
如果你们做到了这三点,我保证你们会在这门课中取得好成绩,每次开课前我都会这么给学生说,从来没有人告诉我这个说法有问题
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I say this in all my classes, I've published thousands of pages on different subjects, all of you can do it better, because you can do it from your own point of view you can do it afresh, you have new resources you are different people, you belong to different generations.
在每一门课上我都会这么说，我在不同课题上都,发表过许多文章，你们都可以做得更好，因为你们可以从自己的角度来做,你们可以做新鲜的，你们有新的资源,你们是不同的人，你们属于不同的一代人。
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Now, let me take a sidebar for about five minutes to talk about course administration, the administrivia things that we're going to do in the course, just so you know what the rules are.
现在，让我用大约五分钟的边角料时间,来说说本门课的基本信息,也就是我们需要在课上做的事儿，好让你们了解一下规则。
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First of all, as I said, this class is a class about making a difference in people's lives.
首先，正如我刚才说的，这门课是关于如何改变生活。
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I said this course will concentrate on the meaning of these texts in their early historical context.
我说过这门课着重于,这些文本在其早期历史脉络中的意义。
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Tell me later what it is you're going to be doing for the rest of your life.
你们有谁说过自己讨厌一门学科吗？,今后记得告诉我你打算从事什么行业。
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When a student says, you know, "Thanks for that lesson, I really enjoyed it," or you know, or something like that,
当一个学生说，“感谢那门课，我真的很喜欢它，”或者其他类似的话，
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Like, I mean... I don't know. I, like, really didn't study for it or anything,
我想说……其实，我根本就没怎么好好学习这门课，
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I pride myself on the fact that people who have taken this course find it useful in their subsequent lives, but on the other hand, I think that it's really interesting.
我很骄傲的说,选了这门课的人,会在以后的生活中用到这些知识,而另一方面,我觉着这是门有趣的课
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Just while we're doing that, I think the reputation of this class-- I think--if you look at the course evaluations online or whatever, is that this class is reasonably hard but reasonably fun.
收表的时候,我来说说这门课的名声,你们要是在网站上看了教学评估,就会发现这门课有点难但也很有趣
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And finally Agamemnon says, "No, I'm not going to give back my girl, but I'll tell you what, I will give back my girl if I am given the girl you took from a different Trojan, and that'll be fine.
阿伽门农最后说,"我不会把那姑娘还回去,但是,照我说,如果你将在特洛伊战中俘获的姑娘,都送给我,我就把那姑娘还回去
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There are a number of different methods that scientists use to see what foods are related to particular health outcomes, and we won't go through all of them but I will -over the course of the class we'll talk about various methods, but I'd like to talk about two primary ones today.
科学家有很多不同的方法,来研究食物与健康的关系,我们不会一一提及但我会,这门课上我们会提到很多方法,但我今天只想说两大重要方法
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So I don't know how people feel about taking-- maybe I'm turning you off by saying this-- There's going to be a lot of detail in this course.
我不知道你们是怎么想的,也许说这个让你们很倒胃口,本门课中也有很多细节内容
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By the way, there are more details on the website that I posted, that was given to me by the university, if you want to know more about what all this is about.
顺便说一句,在教学网站上还有我发布的更多课程信息,这些信息都来自于学校,这会有助于你们进一步了解这门课程
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I've never taken a course of philosophy So I'm looking for it and I guess it struk me because I've never learned an art class here so much and I like the elements, images, and fictions of alienation. -OK, I missed a few words.
我没有上过哲学课,所以就选了这门课,在这里我没怎么学过,艺术课程,我也喜欢异化的元素，图像，和，小说,等等，我没听见你说的。
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The next day in class, I used that and I said to the students, "You know, the last thing in the world that I want you to think is that I experience a constant high or that you, by the end of the semester or the year-- it was a year course, you-- by the end of the year-- " will experience a constant high."
第二天上课时，我讲了这件事并对学生说，“我最不希望你们以为,我总是保持快乐，或者你们，在期未或学年未-,那门课程要讲一年，你们到学年未时-,会一直保持快乐“
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And he says to me, " "Tal, I hear you teaching a class on happiness."
他对我说，“Tal，我听说你教一门有关快乐的课程“
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