"People can do things in their own lives, with their children, they can do work in their communities to improve it and once you take those steps, the next logical step is to make sure that your government officials are doing the right thing."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

So that it's a good thing to be born, " even though your life is going to be followed by death."

所以出生是件好事，尽管你的生命结束之后是死亡“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I know you're bugged by my bad humor, but too bad. Maybe you're bugged by this, saying wait a minute, how does this thing stop? This is the kind of definition that your high school geometry teacher would have rapped your knuckles over.

我也知道你可能觉得我的冷笑话很烦，但是很不幸，可能你会觉得这个很烦,你会想等等,这个程序怎么停下来呢？,这就是你们高中几何。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The only thing that compiler needs to know is kind of what pattern to look for in the rest of your code.

编译器需要知道的唯一的东西是,用来在剩下的代码中寻找的函数形式。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He wrote once that, "The chief thing is to know your duties and our edicts by heart and not put off things until tomorrow, like his son did.

他曾经这样写道,"最要紧的事就是牢记我们的职责和法令,并且不把今天能做的事拖延到明天去做",他儿子就是这么拖沓的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These details aren't important, it is described in your book, but the thing that is important to know is that diffusion occurs fast over short distances, but because of the physics of diffusion it occurs slowly over longer distances.

这些具体细节无关轻重,书上都有,重点是你要明白,距离越短扩散越快,由于扩散现象的物理特性,距离越长扩散越慢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

At every point of time your mortgage balance is equal to your mortgage payment times that square bracketed thing, where T is the amount of time you have left.

在每个时间点的抵押贷款余额,都等于每月偿还额乘以,方括号内的值,T是剩余年份数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Let me give you one other anecdote that I can't resist. This is the kind of thing you can use at cocktail parties to impress your friends from Harvard. OK.

让我再告诉一个秘密吧,这事儿在鸡尾酒会上,你能用来唬唬,哈佛的那帮人，好。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And when you call a function, one of the things X that happens is whatever your passing in, for instance, X, ; and if this is A, this thing gets copied into A; so at that moment in time of calling increment, I actually have two copies of the same value in memory but they're referred to by different names.

当你调用一个函数，其中发生的一件事情是,不管你输入什么，比如，或者是A，它把这个东西复制到A中;,调用increment的时候，实际上在内存中，有两个同样的值的内存块,但是它们有不同的名字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, when the right signal is received, the right T-cell finds your host cell with a foreign virus in it, the first thing that happens is that this T-cell becomes activated and it starts reproducing, making more copies of itself.

所以 当接收到正确的信号,恰当的T细胞寻觅到,感染外源病毒的细胞时,首先发生的是,T细胞被激活并开始增殖,制造更多自身拷贝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选