So if you're going to discuss whether or not military conscription is equivalent to suppressing people's right to life, you shouldn't approach it that way.

所以如果你要讨论,征兵制度是否等价于压制人们的生命权，你不该这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You could vote for, as it was in that time, Gore, Bush, Nader, or not voting and I'll leave it to you to decide which of those is equivalent to not voting.

当时你可以这样投票,你可以投给戈尔,布什,纳德,或者投弃权票,我留给你们自己去考虑,投给谁等于弃权

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

p1 I said let's do this slowly enough that this p1 is in equilibrium with this p1, but not so slowly that this pressure is equivalent to that pressure.

我曾说过我们足够慢地使这边的1,与这边的p1平衡，但是没有慢到,这里的压强等于这里的压强。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选