Usually, a person is clowning around if he is being funny when he should be serious.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

He is simply talking about the parameters of the world he has brought into being. Sidney thinks of it as a kind of magic.

他只是提到了自己造的那个世界的特性,西德尼把这看作是一场魔术。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Maybe what we should say is he thinks he remembers the experience of being crowned emperor, but it's a fake memory.

或许我们应该说，他自认为拥有那段经历，但那是虚假的记忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Fairey says he is not guilty. He says he is being punished for suggesting that public space should be filled with more than just advertising for companies.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

He had a famous phrase to express this idea, "The quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry."

他有一句名言表达此观点，只要快乐的总量相等，针戏与诗一样好“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some say he is being realistic.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

And this is Erwin Schrodinger, and this is the equation that he put forth where we have hat psi being equal to e psi.

这就是埃尔文？薛定谔，在这个方程中,他提出,所以，让我们来解释一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mr.Ahmadinejad's assault against opposition leaders comes at a time when he is being criticized by his own supporters for using poor judgment in trying to form a new government, and while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has softened criticism of the opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

In a help session what he might do typically is solve between four and eight problems that illustrate the key principle being talked that week.

在帮助课程中他一般会,解决4到8个问题,来阐明那一周教的关键原理。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And Neptune with a Trident is helping lay the trans-Atlantic cable which was just being laid when he was painting this."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

But the winning candidate is him so he gets no disutility from the winning candidate being someone else.

但由于他就是获胜者所以他没有,由获胜者是别人而带来的负效应

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

There should be some sense by the end of the year,he says, whether or not serious progress is being made.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

These are such, sort of, cliched southernisms that you start to see this character as a caricature. He is very hard to see as a human being.

原来的地方，这是典型的南方陈词滥调，你开始发现,这个角色的滑稽之处，他很难被当做是人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That is a hard question,he says, because there are so many kinds of music being made right now.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

That's Socrates, that's the great message of Socrates He then said the trouble with human being is they have language and therefore they get confused.

这段话是苏格拉底说的，这就是苏格拉底的名言,他接着说人类的问题是,他们的语言会让他们迷惑。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He, so far as I know, and I think I'm not forgetting, he is the only human being referred to in the poems in that way.

阿伽门农,就我所知,我想我不健忘,他是唯一一个以这种方式被提及的人类

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

said average Joe. He was being a doubting Thomas, someone who does not believe anything he is told.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Where the good citizen is relative to the regime you might say regime-specific the good human being so he believes is good everywhere.

好公民与政体相关，那是对特定的政体而言,但好人，他相信,在那里都是好人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says the methane discovery presents scientists with a mystery because it is still not clear how the gas is being produced.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Now since God is himself the transcendent source of all being and since he is good, in a monotheistic system there are no evil agents that constitute a realm that opposes God as an equal rival.

因为上帝的力量超越万物,也因为他是上帝，在一神论体系中没有恶灵,能够形成一个可与他相抗衡的领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He says about two-thirds of the cost can be paid for with money that is currently being "wasted,"

VOA: special.2009.07.25

They don't know--They think that they're teaching somebody in a memory game but actually the person who is being shocked is a confederate who is trained to react in certain ways as he's being increasingly shocked.

他们不知道…他们以为,他们是在用记忆游戏来教被电击者,但其实被电击者早就和设计实验的人串通好,当电击者电击的次多增多时,他就会装成相应的样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said,"What is the use of being elected or re-elected, if you don't stand for something."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The song is about what he had hated most about being in the army.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

The dial tone is that state of awareness of the divine that Buddy speaks of when he says- when he speaks of being with God before God said, "Let there be light."

拨号音是神学意识的体现,巴蒂曾提过，当他提到在上帝说,让光芒普照大地，这句话前就与上帝同在时说过“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the question isn't really, is there something you could do to a human being ? so that he'd be happy, or at least enjoying himself, forever?

但问题并非，是否有办法改变人类,让他快乐或起码永远享受自己？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选