So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

and he set aside a couple of, like, one and a half-hour long appointments.

我们约定了两三次见面的时间，每一次都有一个半小时长。

与教授的面谈 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And for a couple of reasons, one this is the first P set where we're actually gonna give you code to work from.

由于一些原因，这里是第一个习题集,在此我们提供了一些代码供大家参考。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now I raise the matter of Satan's critique of God's power because the evaluation and the criticism of Milton, and especially of Milton's poetry, has hinged for a couple of centuries now on a related set of questions about this poet's power.

我提出撒旦批评上帝力量的问题,因为对弥尔顿的评价和批判，尤其是对他的诗的评判，几世纪以来,一直与一些与他的力量相关的问题纠结在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, what you do is you set up a couple of displays, one where the block is stopped, the other one where you take this away with a trap door and it keeps going.

所以,你可以设计几个演示,一个是木块被挡住了,另一个是用活门把木块挪开,使得屏板继续上升

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So Mozart may have had this image in mind of the damned and the left, but he sure was able to set it--this text-- through music by using a couple of devices.

因此莫扎特脑海中可能记住了,左侧受诅咒的人的画面,但他肯定通过若干乐曲技巧,用音乐表现出了文本内容

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选