I think that his deadpan way of bringing things down to earth when they get a little too highfalutin' involves the skill of a genuine stand-up comic.

我认为他是真的有漫画人物的效果,当他总是面无表情的’,让那些过分骄傲的人回归现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

you get more of...you already have things that you want to talk about, going in, sitting down to dinner.

你会得到更多……走进去，坐下来吃顿饭的同时，你已经想好要聊哪些话题了，

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If you can't hold your job down, you can't get the money Ultimately, most of the negative things on that list were instrumentally bad.

无法工作就赚不到钱,最终名单上多数消极的东西,都归结为坏的利用价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, it was in the 1600s that probability theory started to get written down as a theory and many things then happened in that century that, I think, are precursors both to finance and insurance.

所以直到十七世纪,概率论,才被记录下来,形成理论,并且在那个世纪里诞生了,金融和保险的雏形

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I say that a typical phalanx is eight; however, by the time you get down to the fourth century and people are doing all kinds of new and innovative things, we hear that the left wing of the Boeotian army at Leuktra was fifty men deep.

常见的方阵有八行,然而四世纪时,人们进行了一系列的革新,听说在洛伊克特拉城皮奥夏人的军队,左翼纵深五十排

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

People can get hung up on sort of hunting these things down, and stamping them out, one at a time. And it's a little bit like playing Whack-a-Mole. Right?

我们可能会一次一个的去发现,这个bug并且消灭它，这有点像打鼹鼠对不对？,不停的有鼹鼠跳起来？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Here's how to-- Just like we can explain in materialist, physicalist terms how to get desires and beliefs and the behavioral stuff down, here's how to get the feeling, qualitative aspect of things down, too."

然后,如何如何,正如我们可以从唯物主义,物理主义的角度解释如何得到欲望,信念,以及行为层面的东西,我们也可以解释如何得到感觉,定性方面的感觉

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