"It's cheap,it's extremely robust, it won't break down, it's very lightweight."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Since what we want to know is whether the soul is immortal, how do we know it can't break.

既然我们想知道,灵魂是否不朽，我们怎么知道它会不会破裂呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'll talk more about this later, but it often happens that when you change your program to solve one problem you break it, and things that used to work don't work.

我们以后会更多的去讨论者一点，但是经常发生的情况是当你因为,一个问题修改你的程序的时候,你修改了程序,但原来没问题的模块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Formaldehyde cross-links proteins, so, if you treated this virus with Formaldehyde, even it was able to enter a cell, it couldn't break down anymore.

甲醛使蛋白质发生交联反应,因此,如果你对病毒使用了甲醛,即使它可以侵入细胞,它也不能够再进行分解

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The idea that you couldn't break the soul if it didn't have parts.

灵魂是不可以破坏的,因为它没有部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, hunger sets in and it becomes extremely sad and tragic, and attempts to break out simply don't work; but, it had its light moments, and I can never resist those.

饥饿来临,一切都变得如此悲惨,而尝试逃跑只是徒劳,但这其中也有些趣事发生,我对这些逸事总是没抵抗力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That's what you need for a phalanx, because to maintain the integrity of the hoplite line, you can't have bumps and grooves, and trees and rivers in the way; it will break things up.

而是方阵作战所必备的条件,为了维持重装步兵队列的完整性,就不能在坑坑洼洼,有树林有河流的地方布阵,这会把方阵打散

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So when we write that out, we just write sigma 1 s squared, or we can break it up into its individual parts, there's no reason we can't do that as well.

当我们把这个写出来时，我们写sigma1s的平方，或者我们可以把它拆分成每个部分，我们没有理由不能这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选