So that, to think nothing is something you have to work at; it's something that you can be preoccupied with.

所以脑子里一片空白,也是需要你努力的事;,需要全神贯注的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."

弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So creation in Genesis 1 is not described As a process of making something out of nothing: creation of something out of utter nothing.

因此在《创世纪》第一章中并没有描述开创,没有从虚无中创造事物的过程：,从完全的虚无中有所创造。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's very clear you don't need a force if something is doing nothing, just sitting there.

显而易见,如果物体没有运动,只是静止状态,那是不需要力的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm going to give a name to that. And what you see there is I'm going to call divisors initially an empty tuple, something has nothing in it. Right here. And then I'm going to run through the same loop as before, going through this set of things, doing the check.

你们可以看到这里,我初始化一个空的元组,名为divisiors，这里，然后我会去运行,跟以前一样的循环，遍历这个集合内的东西,然后做检查，现在我要做的是，每次我找到了一个除数我要把它收集起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now we might at first think that Satan's vaunting here is the product of nothing more elevated than hate and a desire for revenge, but Milton's doing something truly extraordinary.

我们首先会想到撒旦之所以在这里自吹自擂,不过是因为他的仇恨和复仇的欲望，不过弥尔顿在这里做了不同寻常的艺术处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选