The window was boarded up. No one could remember a time when it was not.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

So many of our financial institutions were created in the 1930s because that was a time when everything was being shaken up and it was a time when people were willing to consider something really different.

由于大萧条时期的动荡,和对人们生活的冲击,人们便愿意想一些与以往不同的东西,所以自那时之后,大量的金融衍生工具如雨后春笋般的出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That means he had a hard time realizing when it was out of control.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

This was a time when Hopkins led all American universities in the importing of important European scholars, and it was a place of remarkable intellectual ferment.

当时霍普金斯先于美国的其他大学,邀请重要的欧洲学者来讲学，那里也是有影响的思想动乱的源地。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

And so when it was time to have a Coke or a Pepsi you had eight ounces, and then you were considered done.

当时一顿饭配有八盎司的可乐,大家都认为那足够了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, one thing we said last time was when we put up a model and try and draw lessons from it, we should just take a step back and say, what's missing here?

在上一讲,当我们,从一个模型中总结结论的时候,我们应该回过头重新审视一下,看看我们是不是疏漏了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So that line was certainly written not by Moses; it was written by someone at a much later time who's looking back and referring to the time when the Canaanites were in the land.

所以这句话，绝对不是摩西所写;,是后人，以后世的角度描写,那时候Canaanites居住在那片土地上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Was it ever a time when you were like "Eh, these people are just wrong."

您有没有某一刻想过,“唉，这些人根本就是错了！“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now there was a time when people thought fat was bad and it didn't-- and people didn't really understand there were different kinds of fat, or they didn't realize that different kinds of fat had different impacts on health.

曾经有段时期,人们认为脂肪是有害的,它不能...,人们当时不知道脂肪还分不同种类,所以就没有意识到,不同的脂肪对人体有不同的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

When I was a boy the eight ounce Coke was the default serving, and when I was a child when it was time to have a Coke or a Pepsi you had eight ounces and the event was over.

当我还是个小男孩的时候,可口可乐,或是百事可乐都是八盎司装的,而且最多就只能喝一瓶

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选