And too many companies can actually hang on for almost too long with too much money because there has been so much money funding these ideas.

而太多公司吊死在投资这棵树上了,浪费了大量时间和金钱,因为投入的金钱实在是过于多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

And the reason for positing these things is because we're clearly able to think about these ideas, and yet, we recognize that the ordinary physical world-- although things may participate in them to varying degrees-- we don't actually come across these objects or entities in the physical world.

我们假定这些的原因是,这样我们就能够清楚的,去思考这些理念,目前我们认识到在正常的现实世界中,尽管很多东西或多或少的参与其中,我们并不会在现实世界中,直接面对这些对象或者个体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But fortunately,again,this is why positive psychology as a network of scholars applying themselves to these ideas and ideals. It's so important because today you'll see throughout the semester that there are so many more tools that we can apply to our lives, to go beyond the zero.

但幸运的是，这就是为什么要学习积极心理学,大量的学者致力于,研究这些观点，它意义非凡,因为今天你们会看到整个学期的概览,有很多方法可以让我们的生活质量，达到正值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So I am willing to introduce these ideas but A, because it's not my training and people who are focusing on cultural differences will do a much better job than I do; and second, because what I hope to look into is the universal, things are common across cultures.

所以我想介绍这些观点，但是首先，因为这不是我的专业,研究文化差异的人会比我做得更好;,其次，因为我所希望研究的是普遍事物，不同文化中普遍的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选