Okay. I'm going to start even though it's still in flux here 'cause I don't want to lose my time.

好的，我又要开始讲了,尽管大家还没坐定,但是我不想浪费时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You don't wanna have it depreciate all the time, and that goes back to the bad old days of inflation.

想必没人愿意看它一直贬值下去吧，搞不好又回到了通货膨胀的灰色岁月。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Why was it worth creating a function to do this? Pardon?

创建一个函数来做这个工作又有,什么意义呢？对不起我没听清？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I didn't make any of these up, but there you are, as I'm talking about them, you're just being grossed out as I describe them.

我又没瞎编，但当我谈论那些的时候，你就在那，当我描述那些的时候你被恶心到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And I shouldn't just say he here of course, I mean this is he or she but if I get that wrong going on, please forgive me for it.

我不应该只说他,应该说他或她,如果我以后又没注意,请大家多多包涵

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Sometime after you've eaten, say you had this Snickers bar at lunchtime and you don't have time to get anything else to eat during the day, your blood glucose level will go down.

有时候你们吃完饭以后,午饭的时候你吃了士力架,在这一天当中你又没时间吃别的东西,你的血糖水平就会下降

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I mean probably those of you-- I mean I can see you people squirming right now when I--just at the mention of that-- so I'm not going to go through the process of having you close your eyes and imagine eating the cockroach.

我看到现在在座的有些同学,已经开始觉得恶心了,我只是提了一下,我又没真让你闭上眼睛,去想象吃蟑螂

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So my friend decided he'd give it a try and he raised his hand and he said, "Voltaire," and then paused and hesitated and continued with his lecture as though my friend had never asked his question.

所以我朋友也决定要试试,他就举起手说：“伏尔泰“,然后停顿一下，犹豫会儿，就又接着开始讲了,就好像我朋友没问过问题一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We might say, well, it's not true now Death isn't bad for me now I'm not dead now ? Maybe death is bad for me when I'm dead?

我们可能会说，反正现在不是真的,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我现在又没死,也许当我死的时候死亡对我有坏处？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, not now My death can't be bad for me now I'm not dead But it's not 100% clear that the other alternative isn't acceptable "? Why not say,"My death is bad for me when I'm dead"?

至少不是现在,死亡现在对我来说没有坏处,我又没死,但另一种情况我们也不能百分百,确定是不可接受的,为什么不能说，“死亡在我死的时候对我来说是有坏处的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If everyone else is cutting down I don't have too, and if everyone else does cut down I don't have to, I end up using hot water and driving a big car and so on.

如果大家都想减排,我没必要跟风,如果别人真的减排了又与我何干,我照样用着热水,开着大排量汽车

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You say, "Yeah, here's a math problem I haven't solved before, but so what? I've just done so much math, " it holds no appeal to me before."

你会说“是的，我没解决过这个数学问题，那又怎样？我研究了太久的数学，我对它失去了兴感“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So before, because of all these anti-business rhetoric, once you start intervene, s not just the question of the merit of the particular intervention, s the fact that nobody knows ll be intervening again.

所以之前，因为反商业言论，一旦你开始干预，问题就不仅仅在于，it’,某一桩干预事件的好处，而是没人能预料，it’,政府何时又会出手，when，you’

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选