And the answer,she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system.

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Because certainly there is a theory that art's main function is to provide succor and solace in this "vail of tears". -Right.

因为确实有一种理论认为艺术的主要,功能是提供帮助与安慰,因为世界纷繁而痛苦，-对的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It has a very well-developed muscular tissue and its function is to contract and relax, contract and relax.

该肌肉组织非常发达,用来使心脏收缩,放松,收缩,放松

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So if we think about the work function for zinc, and the work function for zinc is 6.9 times 10 to the -19 joules, do we expect that when we shine our UV light on the zinc, we'll be able to eject electrons?

如果我们考虑锌的功函数,它是6，9乘以10的-19次方焦耳，我们是否可以预测当,用紫外灯照射锌时，我们可以射出电子呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And it probably--One--There's--Evolutionary psychologists debate the function of why we talk funny to babies.

进化心理学家们在争论,我们为何要以如此好玩的方式来同婴儿讲话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It won't be that--We can see why that personality emerges through karmic cause and effect in any way that are a function of what I was like in my life.

我们能明白为什么人格是如何通过,因果作用产生并且作用在我的生活中的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Of course, we will also be talking about behavioral finance in this course and we'll, at times, be saying that the utility function concept isn't always right-- the idea that people are actually maximizing expected utility might not be entirely accurate.

当然 我们还会,在这门课上讨论行为金融学,并且,我们会间或,讨论到效用函数不总是正确的,人们希望最大化期望效用的观点,也许并不是完全准确的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you run these curves only on non-smokers you get rid of that J at the end of the curve and you get pretty much a function that's to the right of the curve here.

如果仅在不吸烟人群中做统计,那么左末端就不会出现J形曲线,而是会得到一条,从左到右逐渐上升的完美的函数曲线

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Dialysis - and this is a method to replace or augment the function of your kidneys, to remove waste products really from the blood, which is something the kidney does continuously.

透析技术,这种技术用来替代,或者增强肾脏功能,以去除血液中的各种废物,就像肾脏持续进行的那样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

What we're talking about is literariness--that is to say, certain devices that we can identify that perform a certain function -and maybe out of the identification of these devices, to evolve a theory that's more widespread.

我们谈的是文学性，是一种我们能够认知并运用来达到一定目的的策略,我们需要进一步发展这个策略，使这个理论进化并传播。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you will P-function again, if you have been P-functioning in the past and you will be P-functioning again in the future, P-functioning for person functioning, you will be P-functioning again in the future, then you're not dead.

只要你还可能再度拥有人格功能性，以前有过人格功能性,以后也会有人格功能性，人格功能性就是作为人的各种功能，你将来能够再次拥有人格功能性，你就没有死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And what here is just a graph of the 1 s wave function going across some radius defined this way, and you can see that the probability - well, this is the wave function, so we would have to square it and think about the probability.

这里是,1s波函数,沿这个方向的图，你们可以看到概率,这是波函数，所以我们可以把它平方,并想成是概率。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选