I think that it's fair to say that everyone agrees on that, and that's not nothing but that's pretty much where the agreement ends.

大家都非常赞同这些明喻并不是无关紧要的，反而很大程度上终结了所有的争论。

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No, not really. There's nothing in the laws of acoustics here that cause that to be the case.

没有,算不上,没有任何的声学法则,是它的成因

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There's nothing unacceptable or inappropriate or misguided about not thinking about all sorts of facts that you might have learned at some point or the other.

不去想所有那些你在某时得知的事实,并不是不可接受的或者说不合适的,或者说是误入歧途的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said all this--this thing that I have up here-- well the previous slide, showing the dividend earnings ratio--it's just cultural; it means nothing because, to some extent, what's not shown in that diagram was the stock repurchase.

他是这么描述的,在这里,在上一张幻灯片中,展示了股利收益比,这跟文化相关,但却无意义,在某种意义上,在图表中没有展示出股票回购

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Just as Richards says, there's always something kind of archaic or atavistic about poetic thinking. It's not just that - it's not trying to tell the truth, as Sidney said-- "nothing lieth because it never affirmeth."

就像Richards说的，关于诗意的思考，总有些事情过时了,诗歌并非,拒绝陈述事实，正如Sidney说的-,“没有伪造的东西因为一切都不是真的“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If harmony really is invisible, and harmony really can be destroyed, that invisible things can be destroyed, even the soul is nothing like you know, that's not a good analogy for thinking of the physicalist position, have you? So what?

如果和声真的无形，而和声真的可以毁灭，那么无形的东西可以毁灭，即使灵魂不同于和声,如果从物理学家的观点来看,这不是个好的类比，那又如何？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

should we conclude therefore, given that we've got the premise, "If you can't picture it or imagine it, then you can't believe in it," since I've just said, look, you can't imagine being dead, but that's not due to any failure of imagination, that's because there's nothing there to imagine or picture.

于是我们就应该基于这个前提，想象不了的东西就不能相信，得出结论吗“,我刚才已经说过，人不能想象自己的死亡，不是因为想象的失败，而是本来就没有东西可以想象。

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