But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

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People anchor to the information they were given, even though there's kind of no causality or no sort of reason why it should make any difference.

人们总是停留在他们已经被给予的信息上，即使他们之间没有因果关系,或者没有任何原因表明这种信息会有任何影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I, honestly, think that no matter what I'm doing, I'm always learning some sort of life skill,

实话说，我觉得无论我在做什么，我都是在学习一种生活技能，

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I don't mean no fish, but no sort of major schools of fish.

也不说一点儿都没,但是常见的那几种几乎没有

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

no notation, everybody sits there sort of mummified, waiting for this great work of art to come back to life.

没有乐谱,每个人跟木乃伊一样坐在那里,等待着伟大的作品再现人间

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There were no reported cases after that, and so by the late '70s, the world was certified sort of free of smallpox worldwide.

在那之后就再也没有过报告,到七十年代晚些时候,已经确认世界各国都摆脱了天花

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's the sort of thing he's given lip service to, no doubt,over the course of his life.

他非常震撼，虽然他终其一生，口头上说相信死亡，这毫无疑问。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I mean, quantum mechanics makes sense to no human being, in my view. In those areas, people are inclined to do sort of strange things.

我的意思是在我看来，量子力学对人类完全没有意义，在那些领域，人们总是倾向于,去做有些奇怪的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You may not like me," he says to the jury, " "but I am good for you and furthermore he claims in this what can only be described as sort of quasi-religious language that he has no choice in the matter.

他对陪审团说：，“你们可能不喜欢我，但我对你们有益,此外他的以下主张,仅能说是,某种类似宗教的语言,因为宣称在这件事情上他别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So not only is there evolutionary pressure for me to lie to you, for me to persuade you for instance, that if we're going to have a conflict- if you are threatening me " "Don't threaten me, I am not the sort of man you could screw around with" But there's evolutionary pressure for you to look and say, "No. You are the sort of man you could screw around with.

因此，不仅存在着要求我对你说谎,的进化压力，比如，如果我们之间存有冲突-,当你威胁我时,我会说“别吓唬我，我可不是吃素“,而且还存在着要求你辨别谎言的进化压力,你会说，“不，你肯定不行。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is no longer some sort of fantasy Utopia.

这并不是幻想中的乌托邦。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I was just finding very tunnel vision-like, the smallest elements at that moment in time which means I don't know anything about the other elements other than they are not the smallest and so no matter what with Selection Sort I had to repeat this again and again and again and if you do out the math it's roughly N squared steps in the worst case as well.

我只有一个狭窄的视野，只知道某时刻的最小元素,就意味着我并不知道其他元素的任何情况,只知道它们不是最小的,所以不管怎样，在选择排序中,我就得一遍一遍地重复选择过程,在最坏情况下,大概需要N的平方次比较。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But feeling, that's the sort of thing no machine could do.

但是感觉能力,却是任何机器都不具备的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

No. Everybody's been using that, sort of since time immemorial or at least since the sixteenth century.

不，每个人都在用它，这个进程可能可以追溯到太古时期，不过至少16世纪。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And I'm no scientist and I'm no specialist in sort of empirical matters, and believe me, I'm no authority on quantum mechanics, our best theory of fundamental physics.

我不是科学家,也不是实证方面的专家,相信我,关于量子力学,我并没有发言权,那可是基础物理中最经典的理论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And blind here is a technical term meaning she had no idea what the baby saw, and the point about this is to avoid either intentional or unintentional sort of trying to get the answer you want.

这里的盲性是个术语,意味着主试完全不知道婴儿看到了什么,这样做的目的在于,避免主试因想要得到自己所想要的结果,而进行的有意或无意的尝试

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If the body view adds the no branching principle, then we can say,look,in the case of this sort of splitting-- This example is known in the to philosophical literature as fission, like nuclear fission when a big atom splits into two.

如果肉体理论加入无分支原则，我们就能说，在这种分裂的情况下-,这种分裂在哲学文献中叫做裂变，就像原子一分为二的核裂变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选