Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The idea is that if you spread risks they don't disappear, they're still there, but they're spread out over many people and the impact on any one person is reduced.

这种观念就是说如果你把风险分散...,风险仍然存在,并没有消失,但如果风险分散到许多人身上,那每一个人受到风险的冲击就会减少

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You have this bureaucracy that's--it's not really a bureaucracy, but you've got these royal officials representing the royal will, but the actual impact in this vast expanse of the Russian empire isn't that great.

拥有庞大的官僚机构,并非是真正的官僚,但这些皇亲贵戚的确代表了王室的意愿,而实际上,它对幅员辽阔的俄国产生的影响绝非那般重大

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Well, Willett and others were doing studies for a number of years finding that Trans fats were having a very negative impact on health, but nobody paid much attention and they couldn't get much attention out there in the world for this kind of work.

威莱特等人多年的研究发现,反式脂肪对健康有着非常负面的影响,但没有人对此多加注意,研究者们也无法让大众注意到他们的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

so it's gonna have some impact on the third quarter, maybe leaking in the fourth quarter Um, I haven't looked at the details I might not get a check If I did, I just take in the check and go and say that we wouldn't spend it.

该计划产生的影响,或许要到第三季度才有所体现，当然也许会蔓延至第四季度,嗯，我个人也还没有深入研究,我也许并会去领支票,即使领了，我也只是拿到后离开,然后说，我们才不会花掉呢。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

If we didn't have financial arrangements, then the people near the impact would be in a terrible economic situation and the people on the other side would be much better off.

如果我们没有进行财务安排，那么受到冲击的人,就会陷于可怕的经济状况中,而地球另一边的人们,就会好得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选