"People can look at things and be curious about them, but if you are an explorer you want to know why and how and maybe develop an experiment to test the hypothesis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?

我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？

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And even we haven't an outreach program to teach parents how to be parents to their kids.

我们还没有任何一个项目教家长如何做家长。

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So you can think about how these 2 things combined are going to be electronegativity, which is a measure of how much an atom wants to pull electron density away from another atom.

因此你可以想象出,这两样性质合起来就是电负性，也就是一个度量，关于一个原子,有多希望把另一个原子的电子密度拉过来的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If you think back to the previous graph that I showed you about race, you can see how there will be an interaction of race and gender.

回想一下上一幅图,种族与代谢综合征的关系图,我们就可以将种族与性别结合考虑

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OK, and that leads now to an interesting question, which would be, "How do I build a mechanical process to capture that set of computations?"

好，现在出现了一个有趣的问题，就是“我怎么样才能建立计算机程序,去捕捉一系列的计算呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Moreover, beyond that, how does one know, in taking out an insurance policy, that the insurance company is going to be sound?

除此之外，在人们购买保险时，该如何得知保险公司，会严格按照保单言而守信呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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So seeing, firsthand, how patient reaction works and what it's like to be an actual doctor,

所以你瞧，第一手经验，病人反应怎么样，真正当医生什么样，

未来的医生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

you have to be well-informed as to how to go about being an actor.

你要消息灵通，知道如何当演员。

想成为明星吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Here's an interesting question: how wide is the line going to be?

一个有趣的问题产生了,排与排之间有多宽呢

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The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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So this is a game that occurs in soccer and just to give an idea of how important it is for those people who are unfortunate enough not to be soccer fans here, the last World Cup was decided on penalty kicks.

所以这是一个有关足球的博弈,我先告诉在座的不是球迷的同学,为什么说这个很重要,因为上届世界杯冠军就是点球决定的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is once you've decided that you're going to be an active manager and try and pursue market beating strategies, how do you decide where it is that you want to spend your time and energy?

一旦你决定了要当主动管理型基金经理人,努力追求高于市场收益的策略,你会如何决定,在哪些方面投入时间和精力

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选