So rational choice in this case, people not choosing a dominated strategy; people choosing a dominant rational choice can lead to outcomes that - what do Americans call this?--that "Suck."

理性的选择,即本案例中人们不去选择劣势策略,反而选择优势策略,使总结果变得,美国人怎么说的,"糟糕"

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

These people knew more than anybody else about these things, and so consulting that oracle was a very rational act indeed.

这里的人比别地的人知道得多,所以请示神谕,实际上是有一定道理的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Isn't there a kind of egalitarianism, so to speak, built in to the conception ? of rational animal and political animal?

是否有种平等主义，建构于,理性动物与政治动物的概念之中？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And so what I'm going to do the next day is return to this discussion, and take a look at a more rational view of the chemical world. So, we'll see you on Friday.

我下一次要做的就是,继续这个讨论，并且观察一个更为理性的,关于化学世界的观点，周五见。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

People are bodies that can think, that can communicate, that are rational, that can plan, that can feel things, that can be creative, and so forth and so on.

人是可以思考,可以互相交流的肉体,他有理性,可以规划,可以感知,有创新等各种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I mean I know you all know each other because you've met at Yale, but you also know each other well enough to know that not everyone in the room is rational, and you're pretty sure that not everyone knows that you're rational and so on and so forth.

我的意思是,我知道你们互相都认识,因为你们都在耶鲁大学念书,但你们都那么熟悉了就会发现,并不是所有的人都是理性的,而且你很确定并非所有人都知道,你是理性,以此类推

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

one important argument was,or really family of arguments was, you need to believe in souls in order to explain why bodies are animated, why people are rational,how they can have personalities, how they can be creative,and so forth.

一个或一系列很重要的说法就是，要相信灵魂的存在才能解释身体的活动，为什么人会有理性和人格，为什么有创造力，诸如此类。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选