Some say all this is cultural and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Yeah, but I suppose there is nothing much there is anything we can do about it right now?

是的，我想对于这件事我们能做的很有限？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It's OK to use certain fundamental constants that come in a lot of calculators, so there's nothing we can do about that. That's OK.

当然允许使用,一些普通计算器里都有的基本常数，我们不会连这些都不让用，这是没问题的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Far from it. It's not about saying, "Well I'm depressed. There's nothing I can do about it.

远远不是那样，不是说，“我很抑郁，这是毫无办法的事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This seems to be a statement of his alienation or disaffection from the concerns of his fellow Athenians. I know nothing about what you do or what you care about.

这似乎是他对雅典同胞,所关心之事务疏离,或不满的表述,我不知道你做啥。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And again, I'm not gonna go on and on about this point, it worth noticing that even if you do believe that soul exist, nothing stops you from accepting the body theory of personal identity.

重申一下，我不想一直,讨论这个问题，我们得明白,即使你相信灵魂的存在，你也可以同时接受,人格同一性的肉体存在论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Okay, so if we had stopped the class after the first week where all we learned to do was to delete dominated strategies, we'd be stuck, we'd have nothing to say about this game and as I said before, this is the most important game, so that would be bad news for Game Theory.

好了,如果我们只学了第一周的内容,即如果我们只学到了剔除劣势策略的话,我们没招了,我们无法解释这个博弈,但我之前说了,这是个很重要的博弈,这对博弈论来说可不是个好消息

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well, if that's right, and if we then realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that I'm going to die, then perhaps some of the sting, some of the bite, is eliminated.

如果那是对的话，如果我们意识到,我们无法改变我们会死去的事实，那么也许有些刺痛，有些痛苦便消除了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

On the one hand, you can imagine somebody who says, " "Look, it's bad enough that I'm going to die, " but the fact that " there's nothing I could do about it just makes it worse.

一方面，可以想象有些人会说，“我会死去这已经够糟糕了，“但是对此我无可奈何,“却让它变得更糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Among the things Socrates says he cares deeply about is his calling, as he puts it, to do nothing but persuade you both younger and older not to care for your bodies and money but how your soul will be in the best possible condition.

苏格拉底的言论中,最让他关心的是他的呼唤，他一心只想说服你们,无论老幼都不要在乎,肉身及金钱,而要关注你的灵魂,是否处于最佳状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选