He says knowing how to do this may be especially valuable if fossil fuel should become unavailable.

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It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.

懂得如何修车,对吗，如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑，性技巧，说一门或多门外语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.

生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Second thing I would say that was valuable "Thank goodness, I did one year at Stanford Business School and learned how to read a balance sheet and understand the basics of cost accounting which is not mathematical rocket science.

我要说的第二件事是很重要的,感谢上苍，我在斯坦福商学院学了一年,学会了怎么看资产平衡表，知道恶劣,成本会计的基本知识。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Like I said, with the most valuable resource being the president's time, a lot of efficiently running White House time is spent on how to allocate that precious resource.

正如我所说，在白宫里,最宝贵的资源是总统的时间，很多高效运作的时间,都用于决定如何使用,这个宝贵的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

OK, so how can I code this up? Well, you might think, let's just jump in and write some code, I don't want to quite do that though, because I want to show you another tool that's valuable for thinking about how to structure the code, and that is a something called a flow chart. Now.

好，那么我怎么把这个以代码实现呢，你可能会想，让我们进去直接写代码把,但是我不想这么做，因为我想教给大家另外一项很有价值的,用来组织代码的工具，叫做流程图,现在，像Guttag教授,和我这么大岁数的人。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.

它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.

与之相反，你可以想象有些人会认为,活着本身有着巨大的价值,不管生活内容有多糟糕，总和都会是正数。

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