So, when they ask you questions about which person should be on the quiz show, people say the more competent person.

因此，当他们问你,觉得谁应该去参加这个智力竞猜节目，你们会说更有能力的人应该去。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I'm very proud to say that Yale has a strong department at the Growth Center on development economics.

我很自豪的说,耶鲁能力发展训练中心中的,发展经济学部门非常厉害

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And that's not to say that other companies couldn't do that, but they didn't.

并不是说别的公司,没能力这样做，可是他们没有这样做。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

He's not saying that it is because we are rational creatures possessed of the power of speech that causes us to engage in politics.

他并不是在说,因为我们是理性生物,且具有辩论能力,所以才会导致我们参与政治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So the crucial thing about having a person is having a P-functioning body.

所以说关键是,人拥有一个具有人类能力的肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, there's a wonderful thirteenth-century commentator that says that God needed creatures who could choose to obey him, And therefore it was important for Adam and Eve to do what they did And to learn that they had the choice not to obey God so that their choice for God would become endowed with meaning.

十三世纪有一位著名的评论家说,上帝需要有能力选择遵从他的生物，因此，夏娃亚当做他们所做的事情很重要,并发现他们可以选择不遵从上帝,那么他们对上帝的遵从便有了意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A behaviorist might admit that a human can do things that a rat or pigeon couldn't but a behaviorist might just say, "Look. Those are just general associative powers " that differ" Or they may even deny it.

行为主义者可能会承认人类能够做到,一些老鼠或鸽子无法做到的事情,但他们或许只会说，“它们只不过是在一般性联想学习能力上,有所差异而已“,甚至他们干脆否认。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.

所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You might say--or a good part of-- it is our ability to process information.

你们可能都会说，或者大部分人会说-,因为我们有处理信息的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Of such a person we might say, they're no longer capable of P-functioning.

有人也许会说，他们已经没有人格功能能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is in these times, you might say, when individuals of extraordinary virtue and capacity, prophetic qualities, as he calls it in chapter 6, are most likely to emerge.

也就是在这些时期，当具有非凡美德与能力的个体,或说先知特质，如他在第，6，章所称，最有可能现身。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Maybe father a children?

是不是说他生殖能力旺盛

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So Rituparna tries to prove to him his abilities and he says, see that tree there, I can estimate how many leaves there are on that tree by counting leaves on one branch.

所以睿都巴若那就试图证明自己的能力,他说,看那边的树,我只需数一根枝杈上的叶子,就能估算出树上叶子的总数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I think, at least when there's the need to be careful-- maybe we don't normally have a need to be careful-- but when there's the need to be careful, we should say, talk of the mind is a way of talking about the P-functioning of the body.

所以我认为,至少在需要严谨的时候,也许我们并不常需要如此严谨,但是当我们需要谨慎时,我们应该会说,心灵是表达,肉体人类能力的一种方式

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