It's the understanding that he can make things happen in the world; he can defend himself against his father's punishment through the use of words.

自己的价值;,凭借唇齿,他可以与父亲周旋。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It has capacities to make things happen in the world that he doesn't know how to control.

在理查还手足无措时,语言有能力改变一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All those things have to happen in an orderly fashion, in enough quantity in order for a particular cell to make a protein.

所有的步骤必须按部就班,保质保量地进行,让一个特定的细胞合成特定的蛋白质

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The question is not so much how we control what happens to us but what do we do when we were faced difficult circumstances, and how we can make spiritual meaning even when difficult things happen to us.

问题不是我们能够掌控多少,而是当我们面对困境,能做些什么，我们怎样体现灵性的意义,即便我们面临困境。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's not as simple as DNA going to RNA going to protein, because proteins need to be present in order to make these things happen as well.

基因表达不是简单的从DNA到RNA,再到蛋白质,因为整个过程需要,不同酶的催化作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选