We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You could think of these as two companies producing bottled water and now we're going to get hundreds of letters saying not all bottled waters are the same, especially from Italians and the French, but never mind. Let's just pretend that they are.

把他们想象成两家瓶装水厂商吧,我估计我们会收到数百封信件,告诉我说不是所有瓶装水都是一样的,尤其是从意大利和法国寄过来的那些,无所谓了,就把它们想象成是同质的吧

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You've just done an adiabatic compression of the ideal gas, you can pretend there is an ideal gas.

这就是对理想气体的,绝热压缩，---我们把空气近似作为理想气体处理。

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But it's just lying to you to pretend that that's excellence in philosophy.

但是这只是在你唬自己假装,你精通哲学。

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