Numbers can be tricky. On the one hand, they are simply numbers.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

A society based simply on the mutual calculation of interests could not be a real political society for Aristotle.

一个建构在双方相互算计利益的社会,对亚里士多德而言,并不是一个真正的政治社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yeats is saying even simply on one level, "I will write differently henceforth, I must."

在某种程度上只是在叙述事情，叶芝说，必需写出不同的风格“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"There was simply throughout the law enforcement community never information that would put this individual on a 'no-fly' list,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

And the reward for the poet's sacrifice here on earth is not simply eternal fame that had long been a privileged image.

诗人在世上的牺牲所带来的回报,不单是长久以来那个特权印象：百世流芳。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Donohue said it was a bad idea because the costs would simply be passed on to consumers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The people in Paris are awaiting some sort of military help from the provinces, but it simply goes on and on.

巴黎民众翘首企盼,希望别的省份出兵相助,然而围困的僵局还是丝毫没有打破的迹象

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

For others,their wish is simply to arrive on time for the holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Well I ought to be able to do that by simply generalizing the loop. And that's what the next piece of code on your a hand out shows you.

好的通过生成这个循环,我应该能够达到目的,这也是你们的讲义中下一段代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And the look on his face was simply priceless,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Paideia The Greek word paideia, which is right there on your handout, means education, but it also means more than simply rote learning or memorization or learning to read, like we think.

希腊词，讲义上有，意思是教育，但不仅如此,它不仅仅指我们想的那种，死记硬背式的教育。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"There was,after 2001, a change of approach, a form of mission creep, whereby we took on far more priorities than simply security and removing al-Qaeda and the Taliban as their host,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

But I think Socrates means more than that, more than simply he wishes to rely on the powers of private individual judgment.

但我认为苏格拉底所指更多，他不只是希望,依靠个人判断的能力而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

LeBron James has remained silent until now, and will announce his future plans in kingly fashion Thursday night on a nationally televised program simply titled "The Decision" on the ESPN television network.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

The readings on the syllabus simply say the author, and there are a couple of books that are available at the bookstore.

大纲里的读物简单的列出了作者，而且很多书在书店里,都可以找到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"But the problem on the relief well is not simply drilling all the way down, it is also connecting it up, and that is a delicate operation that could take some time."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

If there is no charge on the plate, these droplets will simply fall under gravity.

如果在板子上没有电荷，这些液滴就只会由于重力掉下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Johnson lives simply and relies on donations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

So if anybody on either side of them runs, that person would simply lose.

任意一个在两边的人要参选,都会以失败告终

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"The closeness the continuing progress on the Cypriot talks, would suggest that the European Union is not going to pull the plug on Turkey, because that simply would stop hopes of peace and reconciliation on Cyprus,too.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

It's simply material found on page fifteen of your textbook but let's review it. We say this is a beginning course so we assume no previous knowledge.

这是你们教材十五页上的一些简单材料,我们复习一下,我们说这是个入门课程,所以假设之前你们没有任何相关知识

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So how do you feed a city like, for example, Nairobi or many other very large mega-cities with desperately poor people in them where food simply cannot be provided in cities without access to diesel and so on?" Taylor says governments need to start investing in safe and sustainable energy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

So, what two investigators at the University of British Columbia did is they simply positioned, once again, an attractive actor or confederate on one side of the bridge.

因此，在剑桥大学里，两个调查者所做的,同样是安排，一个迷人的演员或助手站在桥的一侧。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The historical critical method, and the documentary hypothesis in particular, are not inherently biased, I want to make that point very strongly. They are simply analytical tools: look at the text and its features and draw some conclusions based on what you're finding.

这里我想要特别强调的是，历史的批判性研究方法,尤其是底本学说，本身是不带偏见的,它们只是分析工具，对文本及其特征进行评判,然后根据你的发现作出结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Because they said the experiment must go on, very often, people went-- most people, Americans went on and shocked that person, even to the point of the other person whimpering and begging to be let out, simply because of the word, " "the experiment must go on".

因为他们说实验必须进行下去，经常的，人们会-,多数人，美国人都会继续电击那个人，甚至电击到另一个人哭泣,恳求放他出去，仅仅是因为那一句，“实验必须进行下去。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Simply by clicking that link you can then log into your account; and then on the left hand side what appears is a little menu of all of your friends who are also using this tool and you can select any one of them and actually see what that person is shopping.

只需轻点鼠标便可进入自己的账户;,页面的左边有一个菜单栏,其中是你所有也在使用这个工具的朋友,你可以选中其中一个,查看ta所选择的课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's as if Mary Astell were saying, "Well, Milton was on the right track. He simply didn't go far enough.

玛丽·阿斯苔似乎是在说：,“好吧，弥尔顿方向正确，只是行之不足。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There would have been a prevailing sense, and Milton has to have been sensitive to this, that it was simply too late to write an epic of any kind on any subject.

这很明显，弥尔顿肯定意识到了这一点，这个时候写史诗，不管写什么主题，都已经太晚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some have relied on what they knew, Others on being simply true.

一些人依赖他们知道的东西，其他人依赖于真实。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选