"I got the idea for the multi-track from my mom, who said,'You know,Lester, you sound like everybody else and everybody else is sounding like you.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Yeah, I think that mandatory voting is a no-brainer. It's a dumb idea. It's a terrible idea.

我认为强制投票这事不用多考虑，是一个极其愚蠢，极其糟糕的想法。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He has a new name for it -I think it's called Home Equity Protection Corporation -but almost the same idea.

他已经想出了一个新名字,我想应该是叫做住房资产保护公司,但是这几乎跟房主贷款公司是一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That may or may not work -- I'm not optimistic -- but at least it's the same idea. We're changing payoffs.

这似乎无济于事,我对此也并不乐观,但至少我们得承认,它改变了收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

- Now, this idea in a way is-- I don't know. Maybe it's a little counterintuitive.

某种意义上，这个观点-,我不知道，可能有点违反直觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I have no idea. -How can you say such a thing?

我没有概念，-你怎么能这么敷衍我呢？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

And so I can--a great deal after all, 20 years-- I can give you a pretty good idea of what it's like to live in France, even if I didn't move there for the rest of my life without ever coming back."

所以我可以,毕竟二十年还是有很多,关于住在法国是什么样的感觉,我可以给你很好的描述,就算在我的有生之年我再也不会,搬回法国

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the reason for the scale is -- that as we saw last week the idea of these algorithms-- I broke the scale already.

之所以要用到它,是因为上周我们讨论的这些算法思想-,我把天平弄坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

this is an idea that ; I got from the Milton lecture that I took when I was a sophomore here; - my professor suggested that this is an instance of what -- Freud would call the return of the repressed.

这是一个想法,是我大二的时候从一个弥尔顿的演讲上学到的;,我的教授说这是一个例子-,即弗洛伊德所谓的压抑归来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea for the philosopher-king is an impossibility or is intended as a kind of absurdity.

我要声明，我决不采信,哲学家国王概念,不可能的说法,或说那是种荒谬的说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.

这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As far as religion--Ehrman talks about this in your textbook, - so I won't go into a lot of detail-- but the common Hollywood idea that the Romans were kind of oppressive of other religions, or the Christians, is just that, a Hollywood idea.

至于宗教。。。Ehrman教授在课本里讲得很详细了，我就不再赘述了-,不过好莱坞电影里常常,描绘罗马人压迫其他宗教，或者基督教徒，这只是好莱坞电影。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now, I wanted to compare it with another question that I--people have this simple idea that there's a best investment.

现在,让我们对比另一个问题,人们总是简单地认为存在一种最佳投资

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The U.K. Had copied the U.S. Idea -I guess they copied -I don't know where the original -I think it's probably -is it U.K. Cpying the U.S. In this case?

英国效仿了美国的想法,我猜他们是效仿美国的,我也不知道谁先发明的,我认为可能是,存款保险是英国模仿美国

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One would be--I'm having a little trouble putting this into the Rituparna story, but you see the idea. You know the average, I assume.

这个1是指,我好像把这个式子,和睿都巴若那的故事弄混了,但你们应该懂我的意思,应该明白均值的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Let's refine the body view. I've been-- Suggest that the key here-- the idea whether it's the person or not is whether it's the same body.

我们来重新定义肉体论-,假设关键是-,究竟是不是同一个人的关键在于,是不是同样的肉体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Good; so what Clara Elise is saying--it's an important idea-- is this and tell me if I'm paraphrasing you incorrectly is no matter what the other person does, no matter what the pair does, she obtains a higher payoff by choosing Alpha.

克莱拉?埃莉斯得意思是,要是我转达的不对请提示我,不管别人怎么选,不管她对手选了什么,她选α总会得到最优的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

.. I think of both of these as incorporating-- I would, especially with Harsanyi, but also with Rawls-- as incorporating some idea of risk management into our basic philosophy.

这两者都-,我想。。。特别是海萨尼，当然罗尔斯也是-,这两人将风险管理的理念,引入到我们的基本哲学思维中。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The idea is that for any amount of money-- if this x is the amount of money that I receive-- utility as the function of the amount of money I receive is downwardly-concave.

这种观点是对于任何数量的货币,假设我得到x数量的货币,随着货币的增加,边际效用呈,向下凹进去的曲线

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选