The people who wrote the books had no idea what was involved.

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So let's not put him only on the spot; there's a whole bunch of us in this room and we can actually apply this same idea not to these phone books but actually to other real world problems, there's a whole bunch of people in this room.

所以我们不要只让他一个人体验,教室里还有一大帮人,其实这种方法不仅可以用来查找电话簿,还可以应用到现实生活当中,教室里有这么多人。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As you may well have gleaned from your reading, the first books of the poem are particularly absorbed with the idea of forgetting, because more than any other part of Paradise Lost they display so ostentatiously the remarkable scope of Milton's own memory.

可能你们从阅读中也已经得知，这部诗的第一册,尤其表现了“遗忘“这一理念，因为相对于《失乐园》的其他部分,它们如此夸耀地展示了,弥尔顿自身记忆范围的宽广。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There is obviously much in the American regime that Aristotle would have found admirable even though it does not conform to his idea of the best regime which is the subject of the last two books of the Politics Book VII and VIII.

明显地,美式政体有许多,是亚里士多德仍会觉得值得赞扬的,虽然那并未符合,他的最佳政体概念,而这正是《政治学》最后两册,第，VII，及，VIII，册,所集中探讨的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选