Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Now, let's say, I'm not really much concerned with whether this was an argument that Plato thought worked or not.

我其实并不太关心,柏拉图本人认为,这个论证是否说得通

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I agree, meditation is not something that you just do for an hour a day or a month or however much time you do it, it's supposed to be a practice you implement into your daily life.

我也认为冥想不是坚持一天或一个月,就能达到的,不管花多少时间在上面，这都只是种练习,要融入到日常生活中去。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It attacked young, old or sick animals that were not much of a threat.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Second, is that people may not remember exactly how much they had or every little thing they had.

第二,人们也许会忘记,到底吃了多少或所吃的每一样东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He says they might have to modify irrigation systems or consider growing crops that do not require much rain.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

You could take that as good news or bad news but the spotlight is not on us as much as we think it is.

你可以这把当成好消息，也可以当成坏消息,但聚光灯并不像我们想的那样，总是照在我们身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And we will not know that until this goes much further, and we see whether this infection becomes more severe or goes away,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

we are the envy of the rest of the universe It's not so much that immortality, what the rest of them have, is unattractive or boring.

我们是宇宙其他生命羡慕的对象,不是说其他生命所拥有的不朽，是没有吸引力的，是让人厌烦的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said people could not control their reputation or how they were perceived, but that they could control their character, and that was much more important.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.

但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I think there are many communities that have done an excellent job developing or redeveloping their communities to permit new economic growth that does not generate as much additional vehicle traffic."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Such states, of course, did not need a bureaucracy for there were no vast royal or state holdings that needed management and not much economic surplus to support a bureaucratic class.

国家无需官僚体制,因为没有庞大的皇室家族,和国家财富需要管理,也没多少经济盈余能够维持官僚阶级

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I think you are seeing Premier Wen, the prime minister, addressing not so much an American audience or President Obama, but addressing a very increasingly restive population that wants, or that appears to want, the Chinese leadership to stand up to international pressure."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

And I also want to point out, it's guaranteed pretty much you may or may not be able to see, sometimes it's hard to see that one that's getting near the UV end of our visible spectrum. So we won't worry if we can't see that.

我要指出的是，我可以保证你们,但你们可能会看不到，有时候很难看到,这个可见光谱边缘接近紫外光地方的这根谱线,所以看不到也不用担心。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And this is useful because if you're actually writing a program that's interactive or that you want to change overtime much like you would a game, hopefully, the game is not going to have the bad guys, for instance, always standing in the same place or the rocks or whatever it is falling from the sky in the same place 'cause it would very quickly become a very tedious game.

这是很有用的，因为如果,写一个交互的程序或者,希望每次游戏都不一样，我们希望，游戏中的坏人物，别老是站在同一个地方或者同一块石头上,或者从天空中同样的位置落下,因为这立刻会使游戏变得乏味。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The argument I'm about to sketch is a purely philosophical argument, not really so much a matter of who can explain this or that feature of us better than anybody else.

我接下来要介绍的,是一个纯粹的哲学论证,并非绝对意义上的,解释优劣决定孰强孰弱

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选