"I actually got stuck in a gondola with him. And he was telling me about his experience and how he spent maybe the first five or six years of his career just crashing into fences and blowing up until he finally figured out how to make it all work."

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And then we're going to try a demo to see if we can convince ourselves that the kind of calculations we make work out perfectly, and we'll do a test up here about half way through class.

然后我们将会尝试演示去看看,是否可以确信我们能够很好的,做出这个类型的计算，我们将在课程中做一个测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The similes work not to sew everything up but make it impossible for us to maintain anything like the official position on a moral distinction between heavenly good and satanic evil.

这些比喻不是为了简单的拼凑，而是让我们不能,维持住任何天堂之善与撒旦之恶之间的,清晰的官方界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Earnings" is kind of a theoretical concept that accountants work on and it can go up and down depending on adjustments they make.

收益则是一种由会计得出的理论概念,会因不同的调整而上下波动

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is affection loyalty and friendship that make up a regime. This sort of thing he says this political partnership is the work of affection philia is his word is the work of affection.

正是感情，忠诚及友情,构建出一个政体，他说,这类的情感，这种政治合作关系是感情的杰作,他用了，Philia，这个字，感情的杰作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选