At any instant, your motion, if it follows any curve, locally can be approximated as being part of some circle.

在任何时候,如果做曲线运动,都可以近似地认为是圆周的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

and I knew if I wanted to be good, as good as I wanted to be, I needed to come here.

而且我知道，如果我想变得更好，变得和我想的一样好，我就得到这里来。

和纽约的留学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We should be able to read whatever we want, just as we should be able to eat whatever we want.

我们应该有权利读我们想读的东西，就像我们可以吃所有想吃的东西一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

iterature cannot merely be received as a definite unit of referential meaning that can be decoded without leaving a residue.

文学不能仅仅以一个确切的参考性意思的单位来理解,这种参考性意思的单位在破解时不会留下任何残余。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now, this is a fair effort. It is about as wrong as anything can be wrong in any possible way.

作者很努力才作出这个猜想,但这个猜想错得一塌糊涂。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Severe, unsentimental, dry, so much so as to be maybe even a little bit funny.

严肃，不带感情色彩，晦涩难懂,如此这般以至于又多了一份滑稽有趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So Nabokov imbues that state of impersonality with certain kinds of emotion and then asks the reader to be as impersonal as that modernist artist also must be.

所以纳博科夫用某些特定的情感,来营造非个人化的境界,让读者像现代主义艺术家那样非个人化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We don't like exponential algorithms, or at least you shouldn't like them, because they blow up quickly. And we saw some examples of that. And unfortunately, some problems are inherently exponential, you're sort of stuck with that, and then you just have to try be as clever as you can.

我们并不喜欢指数算法，至少你不应该喜欢，因为他们会,爆炸式的增长，我们将看到,这样的例子，不幸的是，一些问题先天是指数型的，你会被它们稍稍的卡住,然后你就得尽可能的发挥你聪明才智了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We would like that to be as high as possible.

越高越好。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

We need to avoid the temptation, in many ways understandable as it might be, to airbrush or sanitize Aristotle, to make him seem more politically correct for modern readers.

我们要避开这个诱惑，虽然在很多方面看来，他可能在经过喷雾与消毒之后较易理解，亚里士多德,也许会对现代的读者变得比较政治正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

They have become as different as they can be.

它们已经几近分化之能事

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

.. It's not going to work, we're not going to enjoy-- something's wrong with that because it's going to create a moral hazard problem and we're not going to be as productive.

那样行不通，我们没法-,那样会产生麻烦,会产生道德风险,生产力也会下降。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Tired as can be?

或是有点疲惫不堪吗

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选