Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.

因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You've got to be very used to the notion of taking a vector in some oblique direction and writing it in terms of i and j.

你们应该已经很熟悉,倾斜的坐标系中矢量的概念,和用 i 和 j 来表示该矢量的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选