Normally, we do these things to keep an equilibrium among the different systems of the unconscious, but sometimes it doesn't work.

一般来说，我们会运用这些机制,去维持无意识系统的平衡，但有时防御机制也会不起作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But I think, as we think it all through we have to conclude it doesn't work. Okay.

但是我认为，我们考虑了一遍,给出的结论是它说不通，就到这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But, it doesn't always work because you have to be damn sure you're right.

但此方法也不经常奏效因为你必须得,十分肯定你的做法是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can talk about working hard on your joint problem sets, but as long as you go home and you don't work hard, it doesn't help.

你大谈特谈你在多么努力地做家庭作业,但是回家后如果你依旧偷懒,这还是无济于事

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You keep on doing it a few times but then you say, " "Fine. It doesn't work," but what if it gave you money one out of every hundred times?

你接着又试了几次，然后你说，“破机器，坏了“,但如果你每投一百次它才会吐出一次呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It doesn't work that way for a variety of reasons, but the main reason is that you want some decisions to be made at each space between two cells.

这出于很多原因,但主要的原因是,在每个细胞间隙,都需要决定信息是否继续传递

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That doesn't prove that the argument fails, but it does mean that you're going to have your work cut out for you if you're going to use this route to arguing for the existence of a soul.

但这并不表明这个论证就不成立,而它确实意味着,如果你要用这种途径,来证明灵魂存在的话,你需要有人帮你解答疑团

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选