And the point of this is so that you don't come to class heads down the whole time thinking everything I say is absolutely worthy of being written down.

这样做的意义在于你不必,从头到尾去考虑要不要,把我所说的都记录下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories.

这或许是我们之间友谊的关键时刻,他知道我的确用了许多时间考虑他和他的困境,在他陷入极其复杂的痛苦的精神危机时,他更是急于想了解这一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, the only point of interest about this is that when do people start thinking that they're French, as opposed to from a certain family, from a certain village, from a certain region?

所以对这些感兴趣的唯一目的就是,什么时候大家开始觉得自己是法国人了,相对于某个家族,某个村子,某个地区

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