Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And since we don't know the absolute up and down in the universe, it is possible that some of the electrons may be spinning up.

由于我们在宇宙里,并不知道什么是绝对的上和下，所以说上面的现象很有可能是,一些电子向上自旋引起的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Wowereit added that the project is meant to teach them about that time in history and to encourage them to break down walls and barriers wherever they may be.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

It's a bad habit to get into, because when you come back to it, it may haunt you later on down the road. So really get into that notion of trying to be defensive as you program.

来运行程序的时候,错误就会出现缠住你了,因此现在我们真的要培养,在程序中有防卫性设计的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They may be knocking down one or two themselves there, because nobody's paying any attention.

他们中的一两个可能会相互打闹或者摔伤,因为没人照看

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It is a much scarrier idea than saying I have this, I'm going to do it, I'm going to put it down there as opposed to being open to what may come and being uncertain whether that would be something good enough.

这和，我知道了，我要做这个，我想写这个，这种确定感相比,对可能的结果保持一种开放的心态，不知道,期待能否满足的未知感相比，更挑战一些。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Every time they're changing your hand is going down so chord changes may be the most powerful of all of these aspects of where the down beat is.

他们变化的时候你的手势都是向下的,所以在所有的途径当中通过和弦的变化,来判断重拍在哪儿可能是最有效的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I suspect that with the subprime crisis the Fed will be pushing real interest rates down dramatically again and we may be in a period of negative real interest rates again.

我推测,由于次贷危机,美联储会又一次大幅下调实际利率,我们可能会再次进入,负实际利率的时代

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Governments establish regulators who set down rules for participants in financial markets and these rules may be perceived as onerous and costly to people in the financial community, but ultimately it's their salvation and it's what makes everything possible.

政府设立监管机构,监管机构为金融市场的参与者,制定法规条令,这些规则对金融界,有着极其严格的约束,但这些规则最终使得金融界运作良好,免遭灭顶之灾

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选