But if a Justice of the Peace can marry two people, it's clear that he can separate them.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But if this is the reason, it's what people like to eat, what would you do about that?

但是如果原因是,垃圾食品合乎人们的胃口,你应该怎么做呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Again, we reserve the right to move people around if we have to, just to balance load, but we want you to find something that fits your schedule rather than ours.

再说一遍，如果必要的话,我们保留转移你们的权利，只是为了平衡每节课的人数，但是我们希望你们能找到,比适合我们更适合你们时间安排的课时。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But usually people do not cut ahead in line, even if the other people in line are strangers and may never be seen again.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团,物理主义对此束手无策,而二元论者,却能解释它们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the words he shouted caused many people to wonder if others might be involved.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

But it's all different degrees of terrible, if you will, because so many people in the population share that biological vulnerability and when the environment changes, we have the problems.

只要愿意,这造成的恐慌程度是不同的,因为在人群中有很多这样的群体,他们都有这种生物易损性,当环境发生变化时,就会出现问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"But if it can't be in the near term, it's a far better solution than what people are doing right now.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

We don't know how the change came about or if--some people question if they ever really did have kings, but the picture I want you to have is that's not the tradition.

我们不知道这个变化是怎么发生的,如果...有人质疑如果他们真的有过国王,不过这里我想告诉你们的是,他们没有这样的传统

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But he said people should think about the cost to the nation if nothing is done.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

The libertarian says it may be a good thing if people wear seatbelts but that should be up to them and the state, the government, has no business coercing them, us, to wear seatbelts by law.

自由主义者说，系安全带也许是件好事,但这应由人们自己作主,政府没有资格,用法律来强迫人们系安全带。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday declared the emergency phase over but said it would be months before most of the people displaced will know if they can go back to their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So this is a good bill, and it is a smart bill. And if you want to apologize to big oil go right ahead, but the American people are not on your side on this one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

It was The Depression. What was actually happening was, The Depression was killing these companies; they weren't making any money, but they didn't want to cut their dividends because they were afraid that if they cut the dividend people would be upset.

当时正处于大萧条时期,大萧条将这些公司逼上了绝路,他们赚不到钱,但是又不想降低股利,因为他们担心,一旦降低股利,人们就会不安

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Sana'a University Economics Professor Taha al-Fusail says the energy sector may be a lifeline, but Yemen needs to diversify its economy if it wants to grow in a way that will fund the government and feed the people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"What I would like for the country and everybody to know is that with the age of the computer, it takes time for us to try to keep up with the computer but if some people would start writing again, and sending their bills by mail, maybe it could ease a little of the burden as far as the financial difficulties that we are in."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If people are on the verge of dying, perhaps it is necessary to overlook that injustice, but I think it's important to keep in mind that we're still committing injustice by taking people's belongings or assets.

如果人们在死亡边缘挣扎，也许忽视这样的不公平是必要的，但我认为即使这样，我们依然要铭记,我们的行为不公正,这是在占有他人的财物或资产。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But also you'd think that if there was a group of people that really had been attending the calories it would be this group, because very few people who come in for weight loss are doing it for the first time, so almost everybody has been on lots of different dietary attempts and somewhere along the line they've been doing calories.

想一想,如果世界上还有一群人,真正关注卡路里的话,那就是肥胖人群,因为那些参加减肥项目的人中,很少有人是第一次参加,几乎人人都进行过多次不同的饮食控制,他们也尝试过计算卡路里减肥

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But if we have credit markets, then people can individually choose to be off the production possibility frontier and at a higher level of consumption than otherwise would.

但如果存在信贷市场,那么个人可以选择超越,PPF曲线的范围,达到比没有信贷市场时更高的消费水平

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选