No continent, you could argue, had ever been quite made readymade if you want--for railroads quite like North America.

没有哪个大陆,你可以为此争辩,像北美这样,及其适合铁路的发展

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I don't know. If you've ever seen a movie - well, there are lots of movies that do this; one of the first movies that did this was "Who Killed Roger Rabbit?"

我不知道，如果你们看过那部电影,当然，有很多电影都描写过这一点，其中一部较早的,电影表现了这一手法--《谁谋杀了兔子罗杰》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's a very snooty phrase that-- I don't know if you ever heard it before.

有一个听上去很傲慢的短语,不知你们之前是否已经有所耳闻

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I think you will find some combination, if you're sort of typical, but that combination doesn't ever have to be fifty-fifty, and I'm sure it very rarely is.

我认为如果你是典型西方人的话,你会发现它们之间的一些关联,但是它们的组合永远都不必是五五开,并且我确信五五开的情况是极少的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If you ever read the Book of Apocalypse--or Revelation -you know it's hellfire and brimstone, the day of judgment, damnation--election into the group of the blessed, and so on.

如果你曾读过《启示录》或《天意》,你知道那些地狱火和硫磺,审判日,诅咒,获选受到保佑的人们,诸如此类

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If you ever serve on a board of directors-- this is the thing that I want you to remember because many of you will serve on boards of directors.

假设将来大家会进入董事会,有一点我希望大家记住,因为你们中很多人将会进入董事会

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you ever want to take a look at -- and I urge you to -The Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton in the CCL collection, you should peruse it.

如果你们想要看一看-我也要求你们去,看一看,在耶鲁的图书收藏里，你们应该去找找看这本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If you ever read the course descriptions of French 115 or chinese language, basic intro to Chinese, they say--I think I wrote it down here, this process of gradual assimilation.

如果你们曾经读过法语115课程描述,或者中文,也就是基础中文课程的介绍,我想我应该在这写下来了,那上面提到,这是一种逐步同化的过程

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We don't know how the change came about or if--some people question if they ever really did have kings, but the picture I want you to have is that's not the tradition.

我们不知道这个变化是怎么发生的,如果...有人质疑如果他们真的有过国王,不过这里我想告诉你们的是,他们没有这样的传统

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They said, it's not going to work because you have to decide how much the house is insured for and then anybody--If you ever make a mistake and you insure it for too much, then the people who realize they've got one on the insurance company-- they've insured the house for more than it's worth-- they'll burn down their house and collect the money.

他们说，火险根本无法实施,因为你必须判断,这房子的保价是多少,一旦你出现了一些失误,保价评估得过高，那些意识到他们可能会从,保险公司赚利的人们-,即保险公司的保价高于房子的实际价值-,他们就会烧掉自己的房子来赚钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you've ever visited parts of Indonesia--which I have not— and if you've ever visited parts of China--which I have not— I am told that you will hear this kind of music.

有人去过印尼么,我没有,有人去过中国吗,我还是没有,据说在那里会听到这种音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now that--If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause.

如果你只接触过英语,那么刚才的问题就看上去非常奇怪了,因为你在听我讲话,而你会在我所说的单词之间听到一个停顿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选