I think that it's fair to say that everyone agrees on that, and that's not nothing but that's pretty much where the agreement ends.

大家都非常赞同这些明喻并不是无关紧要的，反而很大程度上终结了所有的争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Similarly, it's not possible to picture or imagine what it's like to have fainted and be completely unconscious with nothing happening cognitively.

同样的，要想象,完全不省人事的昏迷,没有任何知觉的感觉也不可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's as if "thinking nothing" is not a passive activity, but an active one.

好像“脑子里一片空白“,不是一种被动行为，而是主动的似的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Far from it. It's not about saying, "Well I'm depressed. There's nothing I can do about it.

远远不是那样，不是说，“我很抑郁，这是毫无办法的事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said all this--this thing that I have up here-- well the previous slide, showing the dividend earnings ratio--it's just cultural; it means nothing because, to some extent, what's not shown in that diagram was the stock repurchase.

他是这么描述的,在这里,在上一张幻灯片中,展示了股利收益比,这跟文化相关,但却无意义,在某种意义上,在图表中没有展示出股票回购

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Just as Richards says, there's always something kind of archaic or atavistic about poetic thinking. It's not just that - it's not trying to tell the truth, as Sidney said-- "nothing lieth because it never affirmeth."

就像Richards说的，关于诗意的思考，总有些事情过时了,诗歌并非,拒绝陈述事实，正如Sidney说的-,“没有伪造的东西因为一切都不是真的“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is a vagueness to this language that I think is quite calculated, and it relates, in Haze's case, to his determination to not be converted to evil, but to nothing.

他的语言有种刻意而为的模糊感,对他来说，这与他不向罪恶堕落，宁可选择虚无的决心有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选