Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change. Let go.

海伦毫无理性地选择了你，因为她对你的爱,也无原因，别问什么，拥抱她,看着你的境遇变迁，放开。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The poem nonetheless harbors this wonderfully primitive and irrational accusation.

尽管如此，这首诗却对这种原始的,毫无理性的控诉进行了维护。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Then, it puts those combinations of beliefs and desires into action by moving in a way that's a rational response to my move.

然后,它把那些信念和欲望组合起来,通过对我的棋路的理性回应,组成它的棋路

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I want to discuss the consequence of rationality in playing games, slightly philosophical for a few minutes.

我们来讨论下理性对博弈结果的影响,这稍微有点哲学的色彩

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Because the building of ships was, to him, the application of rationality, of reason, thinking, and experimentation, this got him interested in the scientific revolution.

因为造船在他看来,是理性思想的应用,是推理,思考,实验的实际应用,这让他对科学革命有了兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Please observe too that it is not his reason that will determine human actions but his will alone, free of the moderating control of reason.

注意这不是他仅凭意志,决定人类行为的理由,而是理性对自由意志产生了潜移默化的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I'm not saying this is fair, I'm not saying it's rational I'm not endorsing it, but empirically-- excuse me-- empirically we can see it, that somehow the attractive- the feedback from the attractive person matters more to us.

我没说，这样公平，没说这样理性,我并不赞成，但是实证上，对不起-,通过实证，我们可以明白，有时候有魅力的人-,给我们的回应对我们更重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There are odes to human reason and learning and endeavor in the wisdom book of Proverbs.

在智慧书《箴言篇》中,有对人类理性，人类的学习，尝试的颂歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There is no basis for individual rights, or for a critique of existing ideas and institutions, if there is no base either in religion or in reason.

如果没有宗教和理性,人权以及对现有思想和制度的批判,也就没有了保障

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The primacy of reason and the pursuit of objectivity, therefore, both characteristic of the Western experience seem to me to be essential for the achievement of the desired goals almost anywhere in the world.

理性至上和追求客观,这是西方经验的两个特征,在我看来,这两点几乎在世界任何地方,对既定目标的实现都是至关重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In other words, he no longer can think straight and so he will do something dangerous,harmful, and very ultimately bad for himself,and when he does whatever it is, he is struck by Nemesis,the goddess of retribution.

换句话说,他已经不能理性思考,他会对自己做出危险,有害,甚至及其恶劣的事,无论他做了什么坏事,最终会被惩戒女神尼弥西斯制裁

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Fear, you will remember is associated with the desire for security, order, rationality, and peace. Pride is connected with the love of glory, honor, recognition and ambition.

要知道，人的恐惧是与其内心对安全,秩序，理性与和平的渴望联系在一起的，而自豪是与荣耀，声誉，志向与他人的认可,联系在以一起的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Reason consists in the imposition of a method for the conquest of nature.

理性存在于,对征服自然的方法的强迫接受之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, if that's the sort of thing you know about Freud, you are not going to have a very high opinion of him or of his work, but at the core of Freud's declamation, the more interesting ideas, is a set of claims of a man's intellectual importance.

如果大家对于弗洛伊德的了解仅限于此，一定不会对他及其学说给予太高的评价，不过弗洛伊德理论的核心，也是更有价值的观点，是一系列关于人类理性的主张。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选