What I plot on this graph here is as a function time, years, dates, life expectancy as a function of time.

在这儿的这张图是,一个关于时间,年,日期的函数,将寿命长短作为时间的函数

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.

生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.

你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

- So what's for all this function -- what's the role of this function in life?

这个函数是干什么的-,这个函数的最终角色是什么呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It won't be that--We can see why that personality emerges through karmic cause and effect in any way that are a function of what I was like in my life.

我们能明白为什么人格是如何通过,因果作用产生并且作用在我的生活中的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选