it was a small seminar-- I had groups of students proposing two novels actually for the end of the syllabus, and the exercise gets you to think very hard about what you think this period is all about.

是以小组研讨课的方式进行-,几组学生提出两本小说,作为教学大纲上最后一本读物，这样做的练习的目的是,让你去思考这个时期的意义。

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What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

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So as some of you probably know, Yale is undergoing an open education project and they're videoing several classes, and the idea of this, is to make educational materials available beyond the walls of Yale.

可能你们已经知道了,耶鲁大学正在开展一个教育项目,我们在录制一些课程的录像,这样做的目的是让,耶鲁外的人也能享受到这些教学资源

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