So,to get a sense of what the regional moisture patterns have been, dryness and wetness over such a long period of time in great detail, I would call it a kind of victory for paleoclimate science."

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Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

and you do it through kind of a... I don't know what you'd call it, a website called UCAS.

你通过一个……我不知道你们怎么叫它，一个叫UCAS的网站申请。

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It would seem far from being unrealistic, Socrates engages what we might call maybe a kind of Socratic realism.

这不只是不切实际，苏格拉底所把持的,是一种我们也许该称为,苏格拉底式的现实主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And they were kind enough to send us this magnetic tank which we'll call forth from the computer solutions to a series of problems that would occur on a simulated flight to the planet Saturn.

他们很友善，送给我们这个有磁性的水槽,用于计算机解决一系列,土星模拟飞行中,可能出现的问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And then should it surprise us that that's the kind of person who would call a perfect stranger on the telephone and write a sexy story and give it to them? Right?

我们是否应该感到吃惊呢,正是这类人会为给一个陌生人打电话,并为对方写一个性感小故事？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It's a kind of realism, of course. Nevertheless, there it is in front of us, and again I call you back to that quotation. What are we going to see when we look at the fiction? Do we see what's in front of us?

当然这也是一种现实主义，然而，这些就在我们眼前，我想再次将你们的注意力集中到那句引语上，当我们阅读这,部小说时，什么情景会呈现在你眼前呢，我们能看到什么吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He wants to replace that with a new kind of, I want to call it rational citizenship, philosophical citizenship.

他想要以一种,新型态取而代之，我称之为理性的公民社会，达观的公民社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It kind of was a wake up call in Germany because they were watching with amusement the subprime crisis in the United States and here it was causing losses to the German Government.

这次危机震醒了德国,当初德国还把,美国次贷危机当笑话看,德国政府付出了沉重的代价

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Socrates ultimately wants to replace military combat with a new kind of you might call it verbal facility verbal combat in which again the person with the best argument is declared to be victorious.

但苏格拉底最终想要,取代军事战斗的是一种新型的,言辞技能，言辞战斗,最佳辩论者,将被宣布为优胜者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He has much the same function and to some degree much of the same personality as what we would call a modern day CEO, that is to say there is a kind of anonymity and impersonality about the sovereign.

在一定程度上讲,他有着我们今天所谓的CEO的,一些义务和特性，也就是说,君主兼有一种非人格化的特性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选