I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.
我觉得,这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。
One class that I thought was very interesting that doesn't relate with my career so much was a family law class.
其中有一门课叫家庭法,这门课和我的职业关系不太大,但我还是特别感兴趣。
Each of these disciplines seeks to give us a handle on a distinctive set of human actions and interactions.
每一门学科,都试图给出一种独特的解译,关于人类的行动与互动。
And I think that's very important especially with electromagnetism, which is so numb toward if, so abstract and so much math flowing around.
我觉得这是非常重要的,尤其是对于电磁学来说,它是一门很难懂的,很抽象的学科,包含很多数学在里面。
Last lecture, you might have thought this was a SHASS class, it's not like a philosophy class, and it was important to set the stage for what we're going to talk about, but we talked about very high level things.
上一节课,你们可能认为,这课没什么意思,这可能不太像一门哲学课,为我们所要讨论的去做好准备,是很重要的,我们上节课讲的是一些比较高层次的的东西。
And one of them will be filmed, too, so that if you can't actually make any of the times not to worry, that video will go online sometime Tuesday in plenty of time for Friday's pset deadline.
其中一门课程也会被拍成录像,所以你们万一没有时间也不用担心,那个视频在周二会放到网上去,直到周五过期,这其中还是有充裕的时间的。
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。
So, what I want to do today-- again, this is a parallel-holding-pattern lecture.
我今天要讲的是,再次强调,这是一门同步课程
One could similarly have a course devoted to the problem of free will.
我们系同样还开设有一门课,专门讨论自由意志问题
We started by talking about the brain, the physical basis of thought.
这门课程一开始我们就介绍了大脑,也就是我们思考的身体器官。
This is a course about justice and we begin with a story.
这是一门讨论公正的课程,我们以一则故事作为引子。
Engineering became a discipline in about the middle of the 1800s.
工程学在19世纪中期成为一门学科
Imagine you got this monster cannon to fire things.
设想你有一门火力强劲的大炮发射炮弹
This is a new class.
是一门新开的课程。
We then have a mathematically rigorous discipline.
于是我们有了一门精确严谨的学科作为工具
Turning to the word literature, this is not theory of relativity, theory of music, or theory of government This is a course in theory of literature, and theory of literature shares in common with other kinds of theory the need for definition.
提到文学这个词,我们讲的不是不是相对论,音乐理论,或者政治理论,这是一门文学理论课程,和其他理论一样,它也需要定义。
Like, because I mean... Like this semester, I was hoping to take 3 sciences with an American Cultures class,
例如,像这学期,我想选三门科学课,外加一门美国文化课,
So thermodynamics, based on these four laws now, requires an edifice, and it's a very mature science, and it requires that we define things carefully.
热力学是一座,建立在这四条定律上的大厦,它是一门非常成熟的科学,也要求我们在定义东西时非常小心。
It is underpopulated right now, so if you are still shopping for a humanities subject, this one bears the precious CI-H designation.
现在它们的选课人数比较少,如果你们还需要一门人文学科,这些都是很可贵的沟通密集型课程。
So I always regard one purpose of this class to help hapless Yale students in their dating strategies.
我一直都觉得一门课还有个目的,就是教耶鲁的倒霉蛋们怎么约会
It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.
懂得如何修车,对吗,如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑,性技巧,说一门或多门外语。
It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he's one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.
它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象,正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的,贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。
I'm teaching this class because I wish a class like this had been taught when I was sitting in your seat as an undergrad here.
我教授这门课是因为,在我读本科阶段时,非常希望能学习这样一门课程。
Any teacher will tell you that is really when you really understand the fundamentals of a subject that you really think it through when you explain it.
任何老师都会告诉你,当你解释它的时候,才是你真正想通,并且开始真正理解,一门课的根本。
When you came into this class in the beginning of the semester you may have thought you were just signing up for a class in political science.
当你们在学期一开始时,选修了这门课,可能会以为,这只是另一门政治科学课程,你可能未了解到。
The idea in this course is that by being a financial markets course, you have to know how the world works.
这门课的要旨在于,一门金融市场课,你会从中学到世界运转的方式
Now, this is a large class, and if you don't do anything about it, it can be very anonymous.
这是一门大班课程,如果你并不打算和周围人相互介绍的话,也就不会有什么人能够认识你了
So, it's kind of nice to major in the thing that you're going to get to have the opportunity to do for the rest of your life.
所以你们最好主修一门,你们今后一生可以,以之为职业的专业。
In fact, next semester I'm teaching an entire course devoted to Hobbes' critique of religion in which this will, among other things, figure prominently.
下学期我会开一门课,专门讲霍布斯,对宗教的评述,尤其是对那些,重要杰出人物的评价。
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