"the atmosphere we require for the talks is one of tranquility, one of understanding and we thought this didn't prevail and we thought we both need time to reach that tranquil atmosphere so we said we would postpone that meeting,"

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What all this suggests, then, and this is a point that I really made before, is that the best understanding of the deprivation account doesn't say that what's bad is the mere fact that we're going to die.

这说明，也是我之前强调过的一点，就是对“剥夺解释“的最好的理解,不是说人终将一死的事实,是一件坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

People don't get scholarships for merit. People get, at least that's my understanding.

人们不因为成绩好得奖学金。人们，至少按照我的理解，

对于奖学金制度 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We can't help understanding. We always already understand, which has nothing to do again with whether or not we're right or wrong.

我们控制不住地去理解，我们总是已经理解了，这与对错无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So don't get too caught up in understanding the methods or statistics in a particular study or anything like that.

所以没必要过于纠结,非要去理解,某项研究的分析和算法

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 I don't think that anyone who's capable of understanding my views, and therefore obviously competent to decide for themselves whether they want to go on living should feel threatened by what I'm saying.

所以对于那些能够,理解我的观点的人们，和那些能够决定,是否要活下去的人们,我的言论并不会对他们产生威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I don't think Game Theory is going to contribute to anything to understanding about leadership.

我也不认为博弈论能够帮助大家,加深对领导力的理解

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

He feels like it sort of takes away his innocence as a filmmaker. Then also in the reading, he mentioned that he doesn't believe that you need any film knowledge to make a good movie. You just need an understanding of culture and of human history.

他感觉那样有如夺走了他作为一个电影制作者,所需要的纯真，在阅读材料中，他还提到,他认为要拍一部出色的电影,其实并不需要任何专业知识,只要对文化和人类历史有所了解就可以。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Another tangible way of understanding who won the battle and who didn't, is we winners, because we own the field, we can pick up the casualties, take care of those who can be saved, bury the ones who have been killed; we don't have to ask anybody's permission.

还有一种显而易见的,判断谁胜谁败的方法,我们占领了战场,我们就是胜方,我们清理战场,处置死伤者,医治能救活的人,埋葬阵亡的人,我们不需要征求任何人的同意

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But, how many of you didn't experience it as understanding why you were having that response to Humbert, but just having it?

但是，你们当中有多少人并不理解自己对Humbert的反应,但就是那样反应着？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I don't know these things personally, but it's my understanding that the whole structure is suffering some moral hazard problems and that they're evolving and trying to improve the institutions.

我没有亲身考察过，但我的理解是,这整个体系遭遇着道德风险的挑战,并且人们不断改进,尝试着改善机制。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's a kind of imprisonment, understanding, and when Heidegger says, wouldn't it be great not to have to merely understand?

理解是一种禁锢，海德格尔说，不必去理解不是很好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is simply interested in saying as much as he can about certain local effects, certainly with the implication, possibly, that this has a bearing on our understanding of, ; let's say, the whole of Macbeth; but he doesn't set about doing a systematic reading of the whole of Macbeth.

他只对作出详尽的具体分析有兴趣,当然会有一些暗示，这对我们理解，麦克白造成了影响;,但是他没有,关于麦克白全文的系统解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of the reasons this understanding seems so problematic is the idea that we don't appeal to the authority of an author in making our mind about the nature of a given field of discourse.

这种理解之所以看起来有问题,一个原因就是我们不会为了弄清一个特定领域话语的本质,去诉求作者的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选