"Some we cannot rule out are the constant discussions of so-called medical marijuana, marijuana legalization, and the downplaying of marijuana harms so prevalent in today's media."

VOA: special.2010.10.11

Now,what I've been arguing is that,logically speaking, even if you are a physicalist, that doesn't rule out the possibility of survival.

我现在要说的就是，逻辑上讲，即便你是物理主义者，也无法排除生存的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the sixteenth century, the native Egyptians, who were smarting and smoldering under the humiliating foreign rule of the Hyksos, finally succeeded in rising up and driving them out, and reestablishing a native Egyptian dynasty.

在十六世纪，埃及当地人，他们痛苦而煎熬,在让人蒙羞的希克索斯人的统治之下，他们最终成功的起义并将外族驱逐出去，他们重新建立了埃及王朝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Still,Hyun's rejection of the North's explanation is a sign the South does not rule that possibility out.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.

所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But as analysts Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations points out, security and political considerations rule out such an option in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Given the very different route that Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden and France went with a centralization of absolute rule, why did it work out so differently for England/Britain and the Netherlands?

在选择政体时,当普鲁士,奥地利,俄国,瑞典,法国,都伴随着中央集权走上绝对主义国家的道路,为什么英国和荷兰会如此与众不同呢

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Again, just to make this relevant to you, I mean this is very stylized of course, but a huge number of businesses out there are partnerships and do have this kind of profit sharing rule and do have synergies.

为了帮助大家理解,我的意思是这确实有点程式化了,但是现今大多数企业都是合资企业,他们都类似分配利润分配并且协作

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选