They also said it was a bad idea for the United States to take control of any nation in the Caribbean.

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Well, it's on one hand a very large idea to take in, particularly I think if one's working in a university.

这是一个很大的话题，不容易理解，对于在大学中工作学习的人尤为如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think it's a good idea to take the lab, particularly in this particular class because I don't have any demonstrations.

我觉得做实验还是很必要的,特别是在这门课上,因为我不会做任何演示

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Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The basic idea in solving these equations and integrating is you find one answer, so then when you take enough derivatives, the function does what it's supposed to do.

解决这类方程以及积分的基本思想就是,你求出一个解,然后进行多次求导,求导的结果就满足条件

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

That there's no situation that would allow human beings to take the idea of fate or the other people's lives in their own hands, that we don't have that kind of power.

世上没有任何情况允许,人类来主宰别人的命运，或决断他人的生死，我们没有那样的权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选