I want to conclude with problems, which may sound kind of negative but this is--I don't shrink from negativism.

我想以保险业的缺陷作为本课总结,它可能听起来有点否定意味,但这是,我并不讨厌否定

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So what does it mean to read the New Testament as scripture is not something we're going to really pursue in this class, because this is not a religious community.

所以将新约作为宗教圣典阅读,不是本课程的宗旨，因为这里不是宗教团体。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

it was a small seminar-- I had groups of students proposing two novels actually for the end of the syllabus, and the exercise gets you to think very hard about what you think this period is all about.

是以小组研讨课的方式进行-,几组学生提出两本小说,作为教学大纲上最后一本读物，这样做的练习的目的是,让你去思考这个时期的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The atoms or molecules in the gas don't know that there are other atoms and molecules in the gas, and then you end up with this universal property. All right, so gases that have this universal property, even when the pressure is not zero, those are the ideal gases.

可以忽略,这样就得到了理想气体的性质,在有限压强下,依然能保持这些性质的气体，被称为理想气体，本课中我们把大部分气体，都作为理想气体来处理。

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This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."

这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选