"Of course,the visit to Libya, I mean everything with Libya is always rather unique and peculiar, but that might be Libya-specific, and I am sure that Gadhafi would have welcomed Bashir.

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I mean, I don't make people be friends with each other but I mean, you know. What's up?

他们不一定要成为朋友,而是，你懂的，什么？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They mean to be saying rather,even if there are others around you, even if there are others with you,dying is something that you're doing alone.

他们是要说，即使身边有他人的存在，即便身旁有其他人，你还是在孤独中死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We shouldn't, just because there are biases and mistakes that potentially can be made, it doesn't mean we need to throw out the baby with the bath water and stop studying ourselves.

我们不应该，只是因为会有潜在的偏颇和错误，这并不意味着我们要因噎废食,停止探究自己。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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