As if anything mattered, with little Kathleen lying out there white and still under the black earth!

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Unfortunately, we now have lived with it forever, so don't think of it as actually being anything dynamic particularly. It's just a name.

不幸的是，我们现在得一直沿用这个名字了,所以别认为它指的是什么动态的东西,这只是个名字。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

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