He wanted to appeal to reason, not emotion.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

It only stands to reason, I think, that Milton would want to inscribe within this poem the problem posed by this extraordinarily compelling characterization of Satan.

理所当然，弥尔顿会想要在始终写明这个问题,关于撒旦过分引人注目的性格的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think it stands to reason to assume that this figure of Galileo is of some importance to Milton and the workings of the poem.

我认为理所当然应当假设,伽利略的形象对弥尔顿和诗歌的作用而言,有着无以言表的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So, we have to reason from the evidence that the establishment gives us.

所以我们只能从现存的遗迹中寻找线索

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Supreme Court ruled that a huge campaign donation can be reason enough not to judge a case involving the donor.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

It's the ability to reason.

这就是推理的能力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He even said the South had good reason to leave the Union, if northern Abolitionists continued their anti-slavery campaign.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

So, if you're looking for another reason to quit, if you're looking for a reason not to start smoking, here's another good one.

因此，如果你正在寻找戒烟的另一个理由，如果你正在寻找一个不开始吸烟的理由，这就是很好的一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The observers on the ground had no reason to believe the white spot they saw was made by the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The one represented by Socrates regards reason, that is to say, the sovereign reason of the individual as the highest possible authority.

一种是苏格拉底所代表的理智，即个体主权理智,是最高的可能权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Some Americans had trouble understanding the economic reason why food had to be destroyed so people could have enough to eat.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

There's no company that's making smallpox vaccine anymore because there's no reason to make smallpox vaccine, because nobody would buy it, right?

没有公司还生产天花疫苗,因为没有人购买天花疫苗,因此早就没有理由继续生产它了,对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But Ms.Smith says the voter registration process may be one reason why young people are less likely to vote.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

There's no reason to believe that the subjects in Milgram's original study were in any way unusual.

而且没有证据表明,米尔格林姆实验的对象是不正常的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

There might be other reasons as well, but that's perhaps the reason to focus on.

应该还有其他的原因,但这个原因值得我们注意

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

I would simply conclude by saying that the aim of this course is to awaken the restlessness of reason and to see where it might lead.

简而言之，这门课程旨在,唤醒你们永不停息的理性思考，探索路在何方。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The idea is for hospitals to send a clear message that there is no reason not to report this kind of accident.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

So if a food belongs to a class of foods that a class of items that contributes to that internal metabolic havoc, would that be reason to consider it a non-food?

如果某种食物,可以引起机体内代谢紊乱,将它们认定为非食品是否合理呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Buchanan said the South had good reason to leave the Union if abolitionists continued their attacks against slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

So,I'm telling you from the beginning, but don't dream and think that somehow the Final's going to be so much different from your regular day-to-day performance, but to give you some reason to live after the Midterm.

所以我在开始告诉你们,但是,不要以为你们的最终成绩,和你们的平时表现,没什么关系,但这能让你们不至于期中的时候就绝望了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone's life meant nothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Is there any good reason to believe that we don't believe that we're going to cease to exist as a person?

有没有一个好的理由相信,我们不相信,自己会停止作为一个人的存在呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The film is about all the bad things that happen to a common man for no apparent reason.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

All right. We've been talking about arguments that might give us reason to believe in the existence of an immaterial soul.

我们已经讨论了,那些让我们相信,灵魂存在的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But he says there is no reason to think that the ice levels will return to the levels of thirty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

But when I review the evidence, I come away thinking there's no good reason to move beyond the physical.

但当我考察这个证据时,我认为,没有比物理证据更好的理由

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'd sort of have some reason to believe in the soul until we sort of see what next argument comes down the road.

我们可能会有理由相信灵魂的存在,直到我们沿着这个方向探究到其他论证的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选