I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We had one win, two ties and probably twenty or twenty-two losses.

我们只取得了一胜、两平、20或22负的战绩。

足球部队长的领导力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is where I grow up in Hiratsuka, Japan Hiratsuka is about one hour by train from Tokyo.

这是日本的平冢,平冢距离东京大约一个小时的火车车程。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Those breasts are flat and fallen now ] speaking to her of her body]; Live in a heavenly mansion, Not in some foul sty."

你乳房已经平而扁,和她谈她的身体;,快住进天国的大厦吧，别再呆在臭猪圈，“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But it's just somewhere there in the words of Pink Floyd "people are comfortably numb". Comfortably numb.

但平克弗洛伊德说过,“人们在舒适地麻木“，舒适地麻木。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I'm going to the Russian Stabilization Fund in-- I think I've got an arrangement to meet with them in Moscow in March-- that would be during the semester.

我还要去俄罗斯平准基金一趟-,我想我跟他们已经就,三月在莫斯科会面达成了共识-,就是这个学期的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And I'm going to steal some of my examples from Pinker.

我将会从平克那里借用一些例子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's kind of--maybe a little shape over to the right down, up, down, up, that kind of thing 543 00:27:52,506 --> 00:27:55,776 and for triple we do down, over, up down, over, up, down, over, up. Okay?

这可能做得不太像,下,上,下,上,那种手势三拍子的时候我们就是下,平,上,下,平,上,下,平,上

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If I look at something that goes as n squared, if this is the edge of the nucleus here and if this is r1, 4 it says when n goes to two the radius goes to four.

如果在原子核外侧,我们发现某一半径和n的平方成正比，也就是说当n为2时半径等于。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That hair is now slicked down, there are glasses between him and us.

他的头发梳得很平，有一层玻璃隔在我们和他之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For the ten years ended June 30,2005, it returned 9.9% per year and then the average return for the actively managed equity fund was 9.6% per year, so we're back to that thirty basis points.

截至2005年6月30日的10年间,该指数年收益率为9.9%,而主动管理型股权基金的年平收益率为9.6%,我们落后30个基点

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That 45 times out of 100 the stock market will go up and the other 55 times out of 100 it will stay the same or go down.

就是,股票市场会走高的可能性是45%,剩下的55%,市场会走平或者走低

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Alternatively, if I went back to the office and took Yale's $22.5 billion dollars and decided that I was going to day trade bond futures, security selection wouldn't have anything to say about the returns; asset allocation wouldn't have anything to say about the returns.

或者,如果我回到办公室,把耶鲁的225亿美元,投资于即日平仓的债券期货,在这种情况下,证券选择不会影响回报率,资产配置也不会影响回报率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So you have this firmament, ; Which is beaten back to hold back primeval waters that are pressing in; you have land which is holding down the waters here.

现在有了苍穹，它被锤平来阻挡汹涌而至的水流;,也有阻挡下面水流的土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And the functionality goes as the square of the difference in electronegativity.

这个公式的泛函性与电负性之差,的平方成比例。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选