Because we've just sat in lecture and you've told us we're not being rational if we pick a high number.

因为我们刚刚上过课,你告诉我们选大数的人是不理性的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

His view is much, if not most, of what we are told about the Homeric world comes, as he says, in the tenth and in the ninth centuries.

他关于《荷马史诗》中世界的观点,正如他说的,即使不是大部分,也有许多,是得自于第九和第十世纪的某些观点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So how would we go about solving this problem if I told you not only was there a maximum weight, but there was a maximum volume. Well, we want to go back and attack it exactly the way we attacked it the first time, which was write some mathematical formulas.

有些时候两个都重要,所以如果我告诉你这里不仅有,最大重量还有最大容量，我们应该怎么解决这个问题呢？,好了，我们想回过来然后,和第一次一样看看这个问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

- After all, if you knew-- suppose we had the birthmarks that told you -- when you were going to die-- if you had that kind of a birthmark, you would face your entire life with the burden of knowing, I've got 48 years left, 47 years left, 50 years left.

毕竟，如果你知道-,假设我们有个胎记能告诉你,你什么时候去世-,如果你有那种胎记，你一辈子都将面对那种知情的压力，我还剩48年，还剩47年，还剩50年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I couldn't have told you, for example, if we look at a phosphate group, that that's going to be incredibly important in DNA, that it's also an incredibly important group when you're dealing with proteins and whether you're turning the function of a protein on or off.

怎么和化学反应相联系起来的，更不记得其它我更不感兴趣的规律,我不能告诉你，如果我们看磷酸盐,它们对于构成DNA十分重要,也是构成蛋白质的重要组份,它是否能打开或关闭一个蛋白质的功能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选