"And that is why I will accept this award - as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Why does it matter that Israel understands its relationship with God, and uses the covenant as a vehicle for expressing its relationship with God, the vehicle of the suzerainty treaty?

这对犹太人理解他与上帝的关系，和用契约作为一个媒介，阐释他与上帝之间的关系,对这个领主条约，有什么意义呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They're not interacting at all so that's why the energy is the same as that for two individual atoms, that's what we're dealing with. As we get closer together, we start get lower and lower in energy.

它们之间没有任何相互作用，因此,体系的能量就等于两个分开的原子的能量，这就是我们要处理的，而随着我们的距离越来越近，我们的能量开始变得越来越低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If they can organize as well in Yemen or Somalia or someplace else, then why fight in Afghanistan where no one has been successful for millennia?" U.S.public-opinion surveys show declining support for the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

I think you can see why Areopagitica has been memorialized for centuries now as one of the central precursors, well, to a number of things.

我认为你能看到《论出版自由》作为最主要的先驱,流传和纪念百年是有很多原因的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Freud uses it as an explanation for why somebody might eat too much or chew gum or smoke.

弗洛伊德用口腔期人格,来解释为什么会有人暴饮暴食,嚼口香糖或是抽烟。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If you think about Alexander Pope, for example, or even Samuel Johnson, as they reflect on literature and why it's important and what the nature of literature is, they aren't concerned about interpretation.

比如，亚历山大，蒲柏，或塞缪尔，约翰逊，他们思考文学,及其重要性时，并不关心文学的解读问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As an aside, why are you able to use print F without writing out a prototype for it?

此外，为什么我们不用写printf的函数原型,而可以使用它呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The question is why does Socrates regard philosophic kingship as required for Kallipolis, ? for the just city?

问题是,为何苏格拉底认为哲学式王权,对，Kallipolis，是必备的，对这座正义之城？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Why is it that we're never observing this, for example, why is it the table doesn't diffract as we bring it through the door?

那么为什么我们,从来观察不到它呢，举个例子，搬动一个桌子穿过门,它为什么不衍射呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The power that the Lady claims for herself as a virgin is titanic, and it allows us to understand, I think, why she has slipped from her discussion of married chastity - to this new discussion of what seems to be -- or what she claims is -- virginity.

女士宣称作为一个处女所拥有的力量是巨大的，那让我们明白，为什么她从关于婚姻贞节的讨论,转到这个新的讨论-,看上去--或者是她所说的--童贞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's reasonable because it's meant TMP for temporary purposes just to call it temp or T-M-P for short, X and I can define temp as -- why don't I set it as equal to X, initially, because now that I've stored X in a separate chunk of memory, I can now change its value and then I can say Y gets, not X, but temp, and so now I've actually swapped these values.

这是合理的，因为它是为,暂时的目的，只要叫它Temp或简称它为，我可以定义temp为--为什么我不把它设定为等于，最初的，因为现在我把X存储在一个单独的内存块中,我现在可以改变它的值，然后我说Y等于，不是X，而是temp，所以现在我交换这些值。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If so how? And once again he puts forward different arguments; in Book II chapter 8 he compares law to other arts and sciences and suggests why sciences such as medicine and has exhibited progress this should be true for law.

如果可以，如何改？同样地,他从不同的角度来推论;,在第，II，册第，8，章中，他对比法律,与其它的艺术与科学,并暗示像医学等科学都已显示进展,法律也理应如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选