And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?

而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you want to spend time with a friend but you need to find out their schedule first,

如果你想要和朋友们一起玩，你首先得看一下他们的日程安排。

When 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, if we want to think about what the first ionization energy is of boron, what you want to do is write out the electron configuration, because then you can think about where it is that the electron's coming out of.

如果我们要考虑,硼的第一电离能，你首先要做的是写出它的电子排布，因为在这之后,你才能知道拿走的是哪里的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, essentially you've got a positive ball which is identical to the size of the atom.

首先你要有一个和原子差不多大小的,带正电荷的球。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But a lot of it is just like you define your objectives what you're going for.

但你首先要做的,是明确目标，清楚自己想要什么。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

First thing you've got to do is, realize that some of these things are not God-given.

首先你要做的是,意识到这些并不是上帝赐予的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are.

换言之，我们曾说过在思想史上，首先你要知道,关注感知者和被感知者之间距离的运动，这种关注会让我们怀疑,自己是否弄清楚了事物的本来面目。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You take all the risky assets ... and you analyze them first to get their-- you have to do a statistical analysis to get their expected returns, their variances, and their covariances.

你需要对所有的风险资产进行分析,首先要得到它们的-,你必须要做一个统计分析,算出它们的预期收益率，方差，和它们的协方差。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You get the idea here, is to deliver the gene that you're interested in directly to the tissue where it's being used and in this case, the idea is to introduce a gene that's missing.

但首先你要明确,这种思路是用来将,某个目的基因直接导入,它原本就能被利用的组织中的,此例中是导入一种缺失的基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

When you do Sitting Meditations and Buddhism, this medical school teach, you have your eyes open a reminder, that first of all, you don't fall asleep but also to remind you that you are supposed to be engaging the world as you do it, rather than having your eyes closed and isolating yourself.

当你学习佛教，进行坐禅时，据医学院的方法，你要睁开双眼,提醒自己，首先不要睡着,也是为了提醒自己,冥想时也要参与到这个世界中来，而不是闭上双眼,与外界隔绝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The first thing to do is to go over here where it says, My Plate Calorie Counter, you'll actually get more information than just calories, but if you go over here, click on this, then the next version you'll see will be something like this.

首先你要看一下这里,写着,我每餐的卡路里计算器,你可能得到的不只是卡路里的信息,如果点击这里,接下来你会看到这个画面

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And an analogy I like to think about is that your--when you bring your car in to repair it-- for repairs, when you're repairing your car, the first thing you do is you stomp it and shut off the engine.

我想打个比方,当你开你的车去修时-,当你修你的车时，你首先要做的是,刹车，关掉引擎。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So you have to think, first of all, what you want the best for yourself, and in food , in other things, too.

你得考虑，首先，你自己最想要的是什么，在食物和其他方面。

问上门厨师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And she just shook her head and she said, "Peter, Peter, Peter. You know that effect only works " if I think you're competent first."

她摇了摇头，无奈地说，“彼特，彼特，彼特，，你知道要达到这个效果,首先我得认为你能干“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

First I go over the physical posture you should have because when you're sitting like we usually sit on the round cushion or the floor, re free of contact with people usually both your knees and your butt are for the kneeling.

首先理顺应有的身体姿势,因为打坐时,像我们常会坐在圆坐垫,或地板上，你要确定自己身旁不要有人，you，make，sure，you‘,通常两膝和臀部都要注意,都要碰到地面。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Andrew Meltzoff, for instance, has found that if you go to a newborn baby, and if you find a newborn baby, this is the first thing you should do.

比如说,安德鲁·迈尔左夫发现,如果你接近一个新生儿,当然你首先要做的,就是要找到一个新生儿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选