And he says the most important reason artists make their work is to share it with the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Reason," and again, he uses this synonymously with other terms, like science or art, is not simply born with us.

理性“，再一次，他用了这个同义词,比如与科学或艺术同义，理性不是与生俱来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He's an older fellow. He's sort of my age and the reason I mention Chuck Mangione is that years ago I went to school with him.

他稍年长些,差不多和我一样大,我之所以拿查克·曼卓林来举例,是因为很多年前我和他一起上过学

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

VOA: special.2010.06.06

And it's called divide and conquer for the obvious reason. I'm going to divide it up into sub-problems with the hope that those sub-problems get easier. It's going to be easier to conquer if you like, and then I'm going to merge them back. Now, in the binary search case, in some sense, this is a little bit trivial.

因此被称为分治的原因就这么简单,将一个问题分解成一些子问题,并希望这些子问题解决起来比较方便,正如你希望的，求解的过程也会变得简单,下面就是把结果合并起来,现在，在二分搜索的例子里,从某些方面来说，这有点微不足道。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I meet with my teachers and they are very experience and intelligent people and the reason why I chose political science is because I have always had a passion for politics,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

But the other reason to go through the thermodynamic cycles and really to develop great facility with them is because there are just an awful lot of things in nature and things that we build that run in cycles, where we want to calculate the thermodynamics, right.

但是要推导热力学,循环并为之发展一套,完善方法的另外一个原因是,自然界中或人造的那些,我们想计算它们的热力学的东西,有很多是以循环的方式运作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

A long-standing drought, along with recent devastating bushfires and widespread floods have given some scientists more reason to think that the vast continent is likely to be one of the countries hardest hit by a shifting climate.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

And it's precisely for this reason that at least the soul, belief in the soul, combined with the soul theory of personal identity holds out the possibility of surviving my death.

就因为这个原因,至少灵魂，相信灵魂，在加上灵魂理论的人格同一性,建立起我不死的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

The soul is just, he tells us, when the appetites, spiritedness, and reason cooperate with reason, ruling, spirit and appetite, just as in the polis, the philosopher-king rules the warriors and the workers.

他告诉我们，灵魂将是正义的，当欲望，意志及理性，与理性统治，意志,及欲望合作，一如城市中的正义，哲学家国王统治,战士及工人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So the woman, I have immediately forgotten the name of, in the red shirt, whose name was Courtney, so Courtney also gave a reason for choosing Alpha, and it was a perfectly good reason for choosing Alpha, nothing wrong with it, but notice that this reason's a stronger reason.

我忘记刚才那位女士的名字了,穿红色衬衫的那位,她叫考特尼,对,考特尼也说了她为什么选α,她也有不错的理由来选α,这本身没错,但是呢,这个理由显得更充分

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

that expresses the will of the majority, the will of the greater number be rendered compatible with the needs of philosophy and the claims to respect ? only reason and a better argument?

众人意志的民主，及大多数人的意志,能够兼容,哲学需求,及尊重理性,及进阶辩论的诉求吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You'd be hard pressed to identify what the meter of that is so that's one reason, and of course what--where am I going with the next important point about what's happening in this music?

你会很难确定其中的节拍,这也是原因之一,当然这也是我将要讲解的下个关键点,关于在这类音乐中的情形

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And what the Republic tries to do is to offer us strategies, maybe we might even call it a therapy, Thumos for dealing with thumos, for submitting it to the control of reason and helping us to achieve some level of balance, of self-control and moderation.

而《理想国》尝试做的是,提供我们策略，而我们甚至能称之为疗法，用以处理，让它接受理性的控制,并助我们达到某种程度的平衡，介于自控与节制之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选