It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

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I mean, there's a saying that the best politics is good policy.

我是说，有种说法叫做,最好的政治就是有好的政策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It's not just that virgins are entitled to sing a heavenly song as Milton is saying Diodati is.

处子们获得的奖赏不仅仅是可以唱圣歌,如弥尔顿所说迪奥达蒂会唱的那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

who was refuted by Dr. Johnson who kicked a stone and leaped away in terrible pain saying, "I refute it thus."

约翰逊先生反对理想主义者，他踢开一块石头,跳开到很远，一副痛苦不堪的样子，说，“我这样来反驳“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So again, let's look at it. What does it say to do Well, it's basically saying a similar thing.

它是怎么实现的？,它跟上种方法差不多一样吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

just exactly a year ago--saying, the best time in at least ten years to buy a house.

在电视上说，一个持续10年的买房子的好时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's illegal to sign an agreement, to sign a contract saying you're going to restrict quantities.

签订这样限制产量的协议,属于违法行为

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

All of that is a way of simply saying it was deep and abiding and well-rehearsed thousands of pages were written in defense of slavery.

所有我提到过的著作都是,为了表达深入人心的,持久不变的奴隶制,上千页的著作都是对其的辩护

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Well, here Frost seems to be spelling things out, making a declaration, making a statement, saying what the fact is, and seeming to celebrate the literal: "the fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."

这儿弗罗斯特好像要详细地说明，来宣布一个声明，说着事实是什么，似乎要庆祝原有的意味：,事实是劳动者知道的最美丽的梦“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Here's a twist, and if you found people who were less wonderful than you all, and asked them, you'd get a lot of people saying the curving thing.

这是错误的,如果你去找一些没有你们优秀的人,问他们这个问题,很多人会回答你沿着曲线飞出

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now imagine some metaphysician saying "Wait a minute, buster, not so quick.

想像一下某个形而上学者说,“等等，伙计，别急。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if you add up, if you try to calculate the balance of happiness and suffering, you might have a case for saying what they did was the right thing.

合计来看的话，计算一下，幸福与痛苦之差，你也许会认为，他们的所作所为是正确的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What is true, he seems to suggest, about the restraint over one's passions and desires is true of restraint and control over others, just as he appears to be saying there is a kind of hierarchy within the soul, restraint of the passion.

而事实是他似乎在暗示，克制一个人的激情与欲望,等同克制与控制他人，就像他似乎想说,灵魂之中有种阶级制度，克制激情。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So it's a bit less negative than saying you absolutely don't want to do it.

所以，相比绝不会做某事的说法，这个句型包含的否定意味更少。

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