Arches are formations that look like half a circle above an opening or hole in a rock.

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Whenever I tried to sleep I would see huge, wobbly, white bags, like the full udders of cows, suspended from the ceiling above me.

每次我即将入睡,总会看到白色的大袋子摇晃着，如同母牛涨涨的乳房从房顶垂下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Like Homer and like Virgil, Milton intends to soar above the wheeling poles of the visible world and describe the otherwise invisible comings and goings of the gods.

像荷马和维吉尔那样，弥尔顿想屹立于现实世界之上,去描绘无形世界中上帝的来来往往。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Above all, Aristotle's works, like the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics, were explicitly intended as works of political instruction, political education.

尤其是亚里士多德的大作，像是《政治学》和《尼各马科伦理学》,更是表明要作为,政治教学，政治教育的著作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The body of that function looks exactly like the computation up above, except I'm simply using those in place of the specific message I had before.

方法体内部看起来,很像上面的计算过程,除了我用这些来替代了,原来的那些特殊信息。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But at the same time like real people, they can turn around and act in a way that is loyal and true above and beyond the call of duty.

但同时也与真人一样，他们也有完全不同的一面,在使命面前显示出忠诚和真实。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's above what we'd like; we'd like it to be more like 2% 4% is high.

这超过了我们的偏好；,我们希望它在2%到4%的范围内。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When the Euro force came out, it was a bit above a dollar then it fell to something like 70 cents I think down.

当初欧元刚开始启用时，稍高于美元,之后，貌似下跌了70欧分。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

And sociologists point out that for a lot of aspects of your life, like getting a job, acquaintances matter, connections matter, and the connections you establish by going to a place like Yale hold you in good stead for the rest of your life, above and beyond any intellectual qualities that this place may offer.

社会学家指出，在你生活里很多方面，例如找工作，相识的人很重要，关系很重要，你去一个像耶鲁这样的地方建立的关系,能为你的余生带来好处，比这个地方教给你的知识更有好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's not two bonds, that's one pi bond, and the reason is because it's 2 p orbitals coming together, and remember p orbitals have electron density above and below the axis, so when they come together, it kind of looks like one bonds, but essentially what we have here is one pi bond.

这不是两个键，这是一个π键，因为这是两个2p轨道组合而成的，记住p轨道在键轴之上,和键轴之下都有电子密度，当它们靠近时，这看着很像两个键，但本质上它是一个π键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Just as forewarning for people who have forgotten what a median is, that means half of you--not approximately half, it means exactly half of you-- will be getting something like B+ and below and half will get something like B+ and above.

稍微提示下忘记中位数含义的同学,这也就是说,不是一半左右,是绝对一半的同学,会得到B+的成绩或更低的成绩,另一半会到B+的成绩或更高的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Honor, in most societies, is thought to be not merely a personal quality, something like medieval chivalry but is above all group honor, the honor that surrounds the family, the extended clan, or the religious sect.

在许多社会中,荣誉不仅是追求骑士精神一样，对个人自豪感的追求,它更是一种集体的自豪感，比如一个大家族对自己的成就，或是一个教派对自己成就的荣誉感。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The war-like Glaucon would preside over what Socrates calls a feverish city, honors, competitions and above all war.

好战的，Glaucon，将代表着,苏格拉底所谓的狂热之城，将荣誉、竞争与战争制度化的城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选