If we had an honest discussion, both of us would know that the other person's heart is in the right place.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So even if we had a transportation system as nice as San Francisco,

所以即使我们有旧金山那样好的交通系统，

大众交通枢纽 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But we certainly didn't have goals. I don't know if we had ever heard of Grammys at that point.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

On the other hand, if we had a quarter as much venture capital, I think that would be in the sense the world would contract too much.

换句话说，如果资金数是风险资本的四分之一，我想现在订立的合同,太多了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Or if we had they certainly wouldn't have entered our consciousness."

VOA: special.2010.04.19

But if we had common knowledge of rationality in this class, then the optimal choice would have been 1.

但是如果大家都知道彼此是理性的,那么最优策略就是1

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Perhaps if we had a Pax, we could refocus on what is really important: the relationship,the love, being kinder than necessary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

That would be a good argument if we had good reason to believe the conditional, the if-then claim.

如果我们有很好的理由相信这种假设，那这就是个很好的论据。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"If we had a clean energy economy powered by wind and solar and tidal power we probably would not be here having this discussion today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

Who has not wondered ? what we would do if we had this power, the power of invisibility?

谁不会臆测,拥有神力的他会想干啥，隐形的神力？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

If we had the proper risk management institutions in place, people would have anticipated this risk and would have made swaps or other arrangements to protect themselves against it.

如果我们有合适的风险管理机构，人们能够预料到这种风险,能够提前进行交换或者其他安排,保护自己免受损失。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We always had pumpkin pie, and if we were really lucky, a little bit of whipped cream on top.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

If we had melody up above in kind of a counterpoint, as Marcus says, there, in the middle, what was the-- we had one other part, and what was that?

在对位法上,如果高处有旋律,像马库斯说的,那在中间,还有另一部分,那是什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We even took the tops off the tables to see if he had hidden the letter in the table legs.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

So the numbers are rising if we had a lottery.

认为抽签了就能视为无罪的人数上升了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And the crisis had to be solved. "If we fail," Roosevelt said, "the cause of self-government throughout the world will suffer greatly."

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Now, we probably could have improved the accuracy if we had spent individual time with each of you and said, well now here's a serving of this and that's -here's a serving of that.

现在,我们大概可以提高准确性了,如果我们在你们每个人身上花些时间,并告诉你们这有一份这个,这有一份那个

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But then we asked him if he had ever done anything special.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

If you wanted something, and this is still true in France today, it doesn't do any good to go to the local notable, like you did in the eighteenth century and say, "hey,monsieur,the little guy, it would be great if we had a school."

如果你想要什么东西,这在今天的法国仍然是事实,去当地的贵族那里绝无收获,就像是你在十八世纪的时候说,"嘿,小子,如果我有一所学校就再好不过了"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So is it still being taught? "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.

如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"This is the same trading environment that we had May 6. And if the computers start to go crazy, we could have some problems."

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

But in sigma orbitals, you have no nodal planes along the bond axis, so if we had a nodal plane here, we'd see an area where the wave function was equal to zero.

但在sigma轨道里，沿着轴向是没有节点平面的，如果我们有个节点，我们就会看到某个地方波函数等于0。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"If coal and gas and oil had to pay the price for the damage that they did,we would use a whole lot less of them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

So if you had some number back in grade school like 123, well, why do we express this as 123?

在小学，像123这样的数，为什么我们要表达成123这样的呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I think if we go ahead, re-look at our plan, and we start making changes where we had issues, I think in 2020 we can take a more constructive way and go ahead then,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!

这些乌合之众是贪食者;,然后犹太人边哭边说，“要是有肉吃就好了！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now, if that was all we had to say about disgust, it wouldn't affect morality very much but we know that people can be seen as disgusting.

如果我们只停留在情绪层面来讨论反感，那么它跟道德就没多大关系,但我们知道，我们可以把人看成令人反感的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选