"When you look at Salt Lake City, they didn't get it the first time. They redid their plan, they came back, and they were able to get their Olympics.

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So realize you don't have to get it right the first time, but you have to listen and watch to what actually those problems are and that is one of the roles your teaching fellows play.

请认识到，并不是要你第一次就把事情搞对，但是你必须听听，看看,问题是到底什么，这也是你们的助教,扮演的一个角色。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You're getting really the first time what I'm seeing "extreme have's" and starting to get "have not's"

我真的第一次亲眼看到“极富”和“极贫”现象。

纽约的负面变化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And so the first thing we're going to spend a fair bit of time on is trying to get clear on what's a person?

那么首先我们,需要花一点时间,搞清楚人是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So I'm going to ask you to come at the New Testament,though, from the outside. If you feel like you know something about it, put those aside for the moment, because when we do the class we'll be trying to get you to see this document as if for the first time, to see early Christianity completely as if for the first time.

所以我要求你们客观地研究新约，如果你觉得你对它略知一二，就请先遗忘片刻，因为我希望你们上课阅读文本时,当做与其第一次接触，第一次接触早期基督教。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Just a few reminders, if any of you are here for the first time, and I know there are a few, if you go to this particular website, and you can get to this from the classes server as well, you'll see the course website that we've developed and it has a lot more information than if you just go to the classes server and click on the syllabus.

提醒一句,如果有同学是第一次来听课,我看到了有些新面孔,你们可以登录这个网站,从课程服务器也能找到,你们会发现我们更新了课程网站,其中含有大量的信息,若你只访问课程服务器,点击教程大纲

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Let me disclaim, too, we're by no means perfect so the Harvard courses APP that a lot of you used on the web to shop for courses, we recently sent out a form to get feedback from everyone because we don't doubt that it was imperfect the first time around, but we're going to iterate and make amends with that.

我不是说，我不是说要完美,你们大部分使用哈佛大学课程APP来在网上选课,我们最近给你们发了一个表单，从你们那里,得到反馈，因为我不怀疑,第一次时它是有瑕疵的,但是我们将反复地道歉。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选