This is just a little inelegant and so one of the things we'll introduce early on is this idea of abstraction or design whereby if you wanna represent the ideas of 0 and 1, true or false, well, let's give them a synonym like true or false.

这么说有点粗野,我要接着讲的是这种抽象的思想,或者用这个来描绘设计出,真和假的思想，我们可以给真假各指定一个同义词。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Neurons actually look quite different from one another but this is a typical one.

尽管神经元的外形各不相同,但这是一个典型的神经元

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is something that's very important in the United States because, as I mentioned, insurance regulation is divided up over the fifty states and the problem that that creates is-- it's a nightmare for insurance companies because every different state has different laws.

在美国,这个协会是非常重要的,因为,就像我所提及的,保险监管被分散到了五十个州,这对任何一个保险公司而言,都是一个噩梦,因为各州法律各有不同

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Another possibility is there's different criteria for goodness.

另一个假设是说，好的标准各有不同。

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