I watched it for perhaps a half-hour until my curiosity got the better of me.

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And from that perspective it looks as though it would be better to know how much time you've got left.

从这个角度来看,你知道自己剩下多少时间似乎更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It was getting better as I got deeper in to Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer.

我吃得越来越好了，因为越往爱荷华州走，那里的派就越大，冰激凌也越多奶油。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You can do better, you can do it through response You've got to sort of disabuse yourself of the problems in response which is to be think of yourself as just a passive reciever.

你们可以通过反应来得出更好的研究成果,在反应上你们要纠正自己,不要把自己当成,一个被动的接收者。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And before we say that the soul view's got the better explanation, we have to ask ourselves, just how much of an explanation is it to say, "Oh I can explain consciousness.

在我们承认,灵魂观点更合理之前,我们必须问问自己,这个观点解释得到底如何,我可以解释意识

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We got an easy one. Let's just for the heck of it I should have found some better examples before I tried this. No mutant spiders here.

我们有了个简单的数字,让我们以防万一,我应该在尝试这个之前找几个更好的例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选