If you don't know why you're about to eat cake like that you will soon, but you know this.

如果你现在还不知道为什么将要吃到那样的蛋糕,很快就会知道的，你清楚这一点。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But, you know, any professor who stands before you should say the same thing about his or her subject. If they don't believe that, they shouldn't be teaching.

但是，你知道，所有站在你们面前的老师,可能都会这样介绍他的课程,如果他们不那样相信着，那他们就不应该教那门课了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Some people said, "Well, if they had consented to a lottery, it would be different. Then it would be all right."

有人说，如果他们同意采取抽签方式，那就不一样了，那样就是可以的“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I don't have as heavy teaching loads, which makes it possible for me to write, as some colleagues at other schools where the teaching load is so heavy that it's very hard to get writing done.

教学任务不太重，这就使得我有时间进行写作，而另外一些大学,教学任务可能很重,那样的话，就没有时间去写作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You know, it's all the destroyed It doesn't matter how long the Ambersons flourish, eventually they like everybody else, it's gonna be destroyed.

你知道，一切皆会被毁坏,安巴逊一家兴盛了多长时间已经不重要了，因为最终就像其他人那样，早晚都会毁灭。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So if I start off with a list of length n, how many times can I divide it by 2, until I get to something no more than two left?

我能够除以多少次2呢？,直到我得到的长度不超过2么？,对数次，对吧？就像刚才那位同学说的那样？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You might as well pack up and go home, and then they'll say, 'No, king, no, we refuse to do that. We insist on staying.

你不妨收拾行装,返回家乡,那样他们就会说,'不,王,我们拒绝这么做,我们坚持要留下来

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That way, you don't have to store too many things in your head.

那样的话,你就不需要记太多东西

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If Israel doesn't fulfill her obligations by obeying God's Torah, his instructions, and living in accordance with his will, as expressed in the laws and instructions, then God will not fulfill his obligation of protection and blessing towards Israel.

如果犹太人不履行自己的责任,遵守上帝的教训和旨意，按照他的意愿生活，就像律法和训诫中规定的那样，上帝也将不履行他的义务,保护，怜悯犹太人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That's a life not worth having.

那样的生命就不值得拥有。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They could say I won't lower my prices if you don't lower your prices, and they could put this contract in with the pricy lawyer, who's taking a day off from the divorce court, and that would secure that they wouldn't lower prices on each other.

可以协定好你不降价我就不降,然后可以找个刚处理完离婚纠纷的,著名律师来作见证人,那样他们就放心对方不会打价格战了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And, in fact, it can't even reach n, because then we would have no potential energy at all in our electron, which is not correct.

事实上，它连n都达不到，因为如果那样的话,电子就没有势能了，这是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if that broke, if that wasn't available to him, he could turn to his short sword, which was a thrusting sword, not like the Roman short sword which was double edged and slashing.

但是如果矛断了,他就不能使用矛了,那么他就得使用短剑了,这种短剑也是用来刺的,不像罗马士兵的双刃剑那样用砍的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选