Making use of only our own reasoning, as opposed to whatever answers we might be given by divine revealed authority.

只用你自己的推测，与所有答案截然相反,我们可能被授予神圣的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And he ended with the position that the only way to put pressure on spending was by cutting taxes I never heard him use the phrase " but he subscribed to the starve-the-beast thesis.

到最后，他倒过来了,说，要想给政府施压，来削减财政支出,减税是必由之路,他倒是没有明确说,但依我看，他用的这招叫“把帽子扔过墙去。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But for now let's simply say that we have a diffraction which we know occurs only by wave-like behavior and it involves the use of x-rays. Why x-rays?

但现在让我们来简单假设一下,我们知道,只波才发生衍射,而且衍射涉及了X光的使用，为什么是X光？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选