He even thought that competition helped drive change.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The shell structure which people hadn't even thought of.

壳状结构,之前人们从未想到过。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

and I kind of want to go somewhere that's just out of the blue that I never even thought of,

我想去意想不到的地方，自己根本没想过的，

为我的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Paul thought the violets,roses, and lilies of the valley looked even more lovely because they were blooming in the middle of winter.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

People thought it was just wrong, categorically wrong, to kill a person, an innocent person, even for the sake of saving five lives.

他们认为杀掉一个无辜的人，是绝对错误的，哪怕是为了拯救五条生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He spoke to us about the finding. "It really means that the planet is more active than we thought,and more active and that can be geologically or maybe even biologically."

VOA: special.2009.12.30

I just want to flag the thought that you can be the very same hunk of stuff, even if some of the constituent atoms have changed along the way.

我只是要树立这样一个观点,就算在过程中，改变了一些原子,还能是同一件物品。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Again and again and again he quotes Levi-Strauss in confirmation of his own arguments, only then in a way to turn on him by pointing out that there is something even in what he's saying there that he hasn't quite thought through.

他一遍又一遍地引用列维，斯特劳斯的观点,来支持自己论点，在批驳其论点时也只是指出,他在某点上,考虑不够全面。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The other great critic of the Miltonic simile for my money takes a completely different tack, and that's Geoffrey Hartman who makes an argument that might even be thought to contradict Fish's argument, although actually Geoffrey Hartman wrote his piece first.

在我看来，另一个对弥尔顿的比喻研究深远的评论家,采取了截然不同的方针，他就是杰弗里哈特曼,他做出了一个被认为是在反驳费什的观点，尽管实际上是哈特曼首先写出了他的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But Ian Hacking, being a good historian, thought that someone must have had some concept of probability going before even if they didn't quote it as a number the way-- it must have been in their head or in their idea.

但是这位优秀的历史学家伊恩·哈金认为,一定有人在更早时候就用过概率这个概念,即便他们没有用数字来表述,但他们一定有过类似的想法

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In any event, this is some interesting research opportunity, so again, no obligation, you don't have to do this, I won't even know if you are or not, but I just thought I would present these in the case you might find them interesting things to do.

不管怎样,这都是些不错的研究机会,不过不是强制的,我甚至都不知道你们参加与否,不过我还是会把这些放在这里,这样大家可能会找到一些有趣的事情去做

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 he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Even if we could build a program, even if we had built programs that can be creative, that can do things that nobody's thought of before, all the program is doing is following its program, right?

即使我们能编写一个程序,即使我们已经编写出具有创造力的程序,它们可以做一些从来没有人想到过的事情,程序所做的只不过是执行程序,对吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Deconstruction calls into question the distinction between language and thought in calling into question the distinction between signifier and signified, even though, as Derrida says, it can't do without a Saussurian vocabulary.

解构主义怀疑,语言和思想的区别，其方式是,怀疑能指和所指之间的区别，尽管如此，正如德里达所说没有索绪尔词汇也是不行的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And the thought, and I think this is a pretty powerful thought, is that even if the robots are behaving behaviorally, they've got the behavior side of the emotions down, they don't have the feeling side at all.

这样一个在我看来极具影响的想法,就是,即便机器人表现出行为层面,即使它们已经获得情绪的行为面,但是它们并没有感受面

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What I found when I thought about the Methuselah case was, even though it was me at age 800, the same person as the one who's standing here in front of you now, ?" it didn't really matter. I said, "So what?"

当我思考Methuselah时，我想到的是，虽然八百岁时的我还是我，和现在站在你们面前的人,是同一个人，那已经无关紧张，我说了“那又怎样“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选