It just means he was-- he could've been hired by somebody to sit at a roadside and collect taxes and tolls and stuff.

他可能只是。。。,他受雇于某人在路边,收税款及通行费等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You've got your flute-playing king, Frederick the Great, who could be awful. He could lash out.

普鲁士的腓特烈大帝热爱音乐,他很糟糕,花钱大手大脚

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And so he imagines that God, as omnipotent, could've made two plus two equals five.

所以他猜想，万能的上帝可以让二加二等于五。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He wasn't insulted. "No, I'm not a pirate, but I could've been, of course.

这是很正常的,"我不是个海盗,但我可以成为一个海盗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What Hicks said is that in these term structures, actually, I've just showed the one-period, he had one-period forward rate-- but you could do it over any combination and you can get forward rates of any maturity at any future date.

希克斯指出利率期限结构中,我刚才给你们演示了,希克斯是如何推导一年期远期利率的,但是你们通过其他组合重新推导,还算出未来任意时刻,期限的远期利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选