People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

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The reason it looks like a tautology, because you look around, nothing seems to have its velocity forever.

其原因听起来像是绕圈子,因为你看看四周,似乎一切都不可能永远运动下去

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

This is when it first occurs to her that the whole world is being organized around her: Nothing of the night's could touch her. Nothing did.

这是她第一次意识到,她周围的整个世界是被安排好的：,那一夜没有什么能够触动得了她，没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When we have just a single bond in them molecule, you have all the free rotation you want, you can just spin it around, there's nothing keeping it in place.

当我们在分子力只有一个单键时，你可以随意旋转，你可以让它转起来，没有什么东西能固定住它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The men who stood around and did nothing until they were called to act earned precisely the same amount as those who had been laboring in the vineyard all day. They're not punished for their unprofitable expectation.

那些站在那里什么都没干,直到有人来催的人和那些在葡萄园里,干了一整天的人拿的钱一样多,他们没有因为没有上进心。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And it feel like really this is just one of those like games the magicians play in the square where you are literally moving the cups around accomplishing nothing other than confusion - with the audience but-- which may actually be the case-- but, I argue that this is actually better.

看起来这就是一种,魔法师在广场中玩的游戏,在这个游戏中你只是逐个地移动杯子,除了让观众觉得困惑，其实什么事都没做,-但事实又是什么呢-,实际上我觉得不仅仅如此。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I could bumble around about geography and this and that, but nothing.

我可以围着地理什么的天马行空地说一大通,但却是一番空谈

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, there's nothing special about annual-- that's the time it take the Earth to go around the sun, but it doesn't have any relevance to finance-- but we are just accustomed to using that.

这里所谓的一年也没什么特别,就是地球绕太阳一圈的时间,和金融没什么关系,我们只是习惯这么用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选