We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Some people say that developed countries are more responsible for fighting global warming

有的人说发达国家更应该对应对全球变暖负责，

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What's more powerful is the person who was not that positive to us but over time becomes more positive.

更强大的是,不看好你的人,对你态度变好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because everyone's going to pick the dominant outcome and then everyone's going to get the worst result - the collectively worst result.

因为每个人都会选择优势策略,而导致结果变糟,使总结果变的更糟

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

We want to do that in the simplest context, then we can make the example more and more complicated, but the phenomenon will be the same.

我们想举一个最简单的情景,随后我们可以再看一下更复杂的情况,但是万变不离其宗

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And they end this paper with the following quote: "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller " and is therefore counterproductive."

论文用以下这句话作结尾：,“想变得更快乐,和想变高一样徒劳,只会适得其反“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It imports it into our database and does some fancy indexing as we'll call it later in the term to make searches more efficient.

将它导入到我们的数据库中，并进行一些变址,这将在后期会提到,它可以使查找更高效。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

- And because I'm writing out a string that's the same length -- -- my strings aren't getting shorter -- it's creating this illusion of some animation.

因为我写了一个长度相同的字符串-,我的字符串不会变的更短-,它生成一个动画幻觉。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选