So, these are all involved with our ability to maintain homeostasis by exchanging materials with the external environment.

这个过程关乎人体维持内稳态的能力,内稳态通过与外环境进行物质交换来实现

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That's why there's a lot of emphasis on sharpening your teeth by doing this class of problems.

这就是为什么强调要通过解决这些问题,来提高你的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You've gotten so far on your ability that many of you have learned to coast.

你们已经通过能力走到现在,并且你们当中已经有人学到了如何成功。

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The insurance company has to have some way of demonstrating its soundness to the public.

保险公司必须通过一些方法,来证明其偿还能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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