There is so much interest in the book that Professor Ruffin says his new class is already at work on a follow-up book that will include creative writing by inmates and various kinds of art work as well.
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It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."
这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“
Cycles that are suggested that you go through and aren't gone through in class also sometimes turn up on exams too, by the way.
顺带一提,那些我建议,你们去推导,而没有在课上,推导的循环有时也会。
Now actually, the science on this is pretty new and very interesting, and we'll talk about that in the class.
实际上,其实这方面的研究还很前沿,也很有趣,这门课里我们会对此进行讨论
I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.
第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在
I'm not sure whether we'll use the Classes server to have you sign up for discussion sections online, or whether we will do it the old-fashioned way and have you sign up on forms that we'll give you here in class.
我还没想要是用校网站,让大家在线讨论,还是用传统的,课堂讨论。
I've been teaching long enough to know that doing derivations in class is equivalent to pouring ice water on the proceedings, so I do this sparingly.
我已经教了这么长时间书,所以我知道在课堂上讲推导,就好像泼冰水一样,所以我在讲这个的时候很小心。
There will be the visual images that I'm going to talk about in lecture, and that I will make accessible to you on the class's server.
书上也有插图,我会在课上涉及到,我会给你们提供课程服务器的入口。
While team libertarian is gathering over there, let me just summarize the main objections that I've heard in class and on the website.
在自由主义之队正在集结之时,我来总结一下我在课堂上和网上所收到的,主要的反对意见。
I said that a bit quickly, but we'll come back and look at that idea in more detail later on in the class.
我说的有点快,但是我们以后会再次回顾这个问题,并作深入的研究的
It occured to me yesterday in my class that maybe someday there won't be social security numbers anymore, and on birth everybody will be given an e-mail address.
我昨天上课的时候想到,或许有天大家出生时,得到的将不是社会福利号码,而是一个邮箱地址。
The graph is something I showed you on the first day of class, that over the last hundred years in particular, but what's shown on this slide is over the last 300 years.
第一节课我就给你们展示过这幅图,该图特别地关注了近一百年的情况,但它涵盖了过去三百多年的历史
These are called concept sheets and they're one to two pages of things that you write about what's going on in the class.
你们需要写一份一到两页纸的观点报告,主要写一些与课堂内容有关的事情
The mid-term will be held in class on October 17; that is also in your syllabus.
期中考试在十月十七日,教学大纲上也写了
In fact, is doing some work with Professor Corbin and me jointly on the issue of food and addiction, and she'll be doing some lecturing on that later in the class.
事实上,她正在和柯宾教授还有我,一起研究食物成瘾问题,她之后会就这个话题给大家做一些演讲
But it's a philosophy class, and what that means is that the set of topics that we're going to be talking about in this class are not identical to the topics that other classes on death might try to cover.
但是它是一门哲学课,这就意味着,我们在这门课上要讨论的一系列问题,和其他讲死亡的课上讨论的问题,是不一样的。
One last word of encouragement, I'll say it again, there's a lot of words in this chapter, there's a lot of concepts, focus on the things that I talked about in class not the details, the basic concepts.
最后再说点鼓励你们的话吧,这一章涉及到很多名词,有很多概念,需要关注的不是我讲的细节,而是基本概念
Now that definition, if you're worried about what I've written down here and you want to see it in words, on the handout I've already put on the web that has the summary of the first class, I included this definition in words as well.
对于这个定义,如果你还有些疑问,而且你想看用文字表述的,在讲义中有,我已经上传到网上了,里面有第一节课的总结,也这个定义的文字形式
We're not going to have time to do them in this course, but if you take a class in the Political Science department on voting and on elections, on modeling elections, you will see that both of these have been modeled and discussed in great detail.
我们在这门课上就不去探讨它们了,但是如果你们选修了政治学专业的,有关投票与选举模型的课程的话,你们会发现这两个因素都可以模型化,而且都会有非常详细的介绍
The key thing is not just to feed back to us what you've read or what you've heard in the lecture, but we want some interpretation of it or some analysis of it, or your reaction to what you're hearing in the class linked with something that might be going on in the world.
关键是不要仅仅以你们从课堂上读到,或者听到的东西作为对我们的反馈,我们想得到的是你们对它的诠释或者分析,或者是你们把课堂上听到的与生活中,可能发生的事情联系起来的反应
It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.
某个,某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世,我们所有人都会死是好事,这是足够让人震惊的,但也许也是可以理解的。
Later on in the class there'll be some questions that have wrong answers.
在以后在课上可能会有错误的答案
So nevertheless, even having given you that historical example, we're going to come back and we'll look later on in the class at a model in which politicians cannot choose their positions, but, rather, you know their positions ahead of time.
尽管如此,尽管我列举了一个历史上的例子,我们还是要回到课堂上来,我们接下来要来探讨一个,政客不能自己选立场的模型,但是当然你们可以提前获知他们的立场
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