And they said, suppose we know we're going to be paired together, I'll choose Beta if you choose Beta. Would that work?

他俩这么商量的,咱俩会被分到一组,你要是选β我也选β,这会成功吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I would be grateful if you would wait until that point if at all you possibly can. It just makes the whole thing work a little easier and it prevents that drop in the pit of my stomach when I see half of the class leave.

我将感激不尽,这样会好一点,以免我看到半数人走掉时,心情会受到影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the context of sorting, the worst case is your handed a problem that's in complete reverse order because that implies you have - to do as more work that could possibly-- that you could-- you have to do more work than you would of course if things were in perfect order.

在排序的环境中，最糟糕的情况是待排序的序列是,完全逆序的，在这种情况下,你不得不做更多的工作-,比起一个较理想顺序的序列,你必须花费更多的努力。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And probably back home there would be the implication that if you can't work things out among them with consensus, probably the king has some weight.

当在本国的领土时,如果对最终的决定存在着很大的争议,国王的意见有很大的分量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

All the supreme court justices would share our social values. And most importantly, our programs would work the first time we typed them. By now you may have noticed that we do not live in an ideal world.

符合我们的社会价值观,但是最重要的是，我们写好的程序，第一次就能顺利运行,如今你可能已经注意到了,我们生活的并不是一个理想的世界。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So if we were management consultants working for Mckinsey or something, and we were brought in to advise you on your homework assignments, or this law partnership on their work practices, we would come down with a prediction that this is how much work you're going to get.

如果我们是麦肯锡公司的管理顾问,或者给你们的作业提出点好的建议,或者对于现实中的律师事务所,我们都能够预测出来,你可能会投入多少工作量

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Now, I don't know how far back it goes but it must be that in ancient times some people would say, all right you're going to be doing more work or you're contributing more to this enterprise, we'll give you a bigger share of the profits.

我不知道这能追溯到什么时候,但在古时候肯定有人说,好吧,你比别人干得多,你对公司的贡献更大,我们会把收入的大头给你

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Even if you imagine that slaves did the work, you would need a hell of a lot of them, over a long period of time, and you had to feed them, if nothing else.

哪怕你想象这个墓穴是由奴隶所建造,那也一定是成千上万的奴隶,经过了相当长的时间工作,至少,你还要养活这些奴隶

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选