It isn't the Red Sea. That's a mistranslation that occurred very very early on, so it's led to the notion that they were at the Gulf of Aqaba or somewhere near the actual big ocean water.

并不是红海，这个错误的翻译很早以前就存在了,让人们以为是在亚喀巴湾,或者是接近真正意义的大洋的什么地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

People to this day are looking for a theory of everything. And there is something very appealing about the notion that the rules that govern the motion of heavenly bodies might be applicable down at atomic dimensions.

现在人们总想寻求一些,可以阐明一切的理论,而这里正好有一些,可以吸引这种想法的东西,即支配天体运动的规则,可能对原子的尺寸也是适用的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.

因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, in fact, the most dominant proponent of the view is our very own Frank Keil, master of Morse College at Yale, who has strongly defended the notion of an intuitive biological module.

事实上,这个观点最主要的支持者,是我们学校的弗兰克·凯尔,耶鲁莫尔斯学院的院长,他为直觉生物学模块做出了有力的辩护

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You've got to be very used to the notion of taking a vector in some oblique direction and writing it in terms of i and j.

你们应该已经很熟悉,倾斜的坐标系中矢量的概念,和用 i 和 j 来表示该矢量的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The notion of contingent identity is very puzzling.

偶然同一性是很令人迷惑的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The notion of a self-assured experimenter-- The results would be very different if the experimenter himself seemed nervous, unwilling to proceed, confused, but he was confident and he kept saying that he will take responsibility.

还有电击者的自信程度-,实验结果会大为不同，如果电击者,紧张，不愿进行电击，迷惑，但电击者很有信心，不停地说,他会承担责任。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选