So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I put it there because, well, I think the major chain bookstores fulfill an important function but I also like to support independent bookstores.

我推荐这个书店是因为,我认为,虽然主流的连锁书店,起到了很重要的作用,但是我仍然想支持一下独立书店

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mechanisms like habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning are real; they can be scientifically studied; and they play an important role in the lives of animals and probably an important role in human lives as well.

诸如习惯化，经典条件作用，操作性条件作用之类的机制,都是真实存在的;,这些机制都能得到科学的研究;,它们在动物的生活里起到了重要的作用,或许在我们人类的生活中,也同样起到了重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So we learned the very first time that in the Prisoner's Dilemma communication per se won't help, but in the coordination problem, which could be just as serious socially as a Prisoner's Dilemma, in a coordination problem it may well help.

在第一讲里我们就学到了,在囚徒困境中沟通不起作用,但是在和囚徒困境具有,同样重要社会意义的协和谬误中,交流却能够起到作用

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Again welcome back to Professor Stan Katz Drew Frederick and welcome to Drew Frederick, who is a class of seven, graduating, but who is very instrumental in a class that I want to talk about today, which is called the Just University.

让我们再次欢迎Stan，Katz教授,还要有请，他是七班的毕业生，在一门课上起到了重要的作用,我今天就像谈一下这门课，课程叫做，公正的大学。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The claim that Freud would make is that the woman's discovery that she lacks the penis plays a fundamental role later on determining her allegiances in life and in fact her own sexual preferences and interests.

弗洛伊德会认为,女性发现其身体缺少阴茎的这件事,会在决定其日后的生活忠诚度,及自身的性取向和性偏好中,起到重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, So, you have these maps in your head but the thing to realize is— And these maps are part of your cortex, but the things to realize is that's an important part of what goes on in your brain but less than one quarter of the cortex contains these maps or projection areas.

你的脑袋里存在着这些定位图,但你们会发现,这些定位图是你大脑皮层的一部分,但你们会发现,这是在你的大脑活动中,起到重要作用的一部分大脑皮层,不过只有不到四分之一的大脑皮层,存在这些定位图或是投射区

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选