I was quoted in a recent article as "I hated teaching because the students weren't prepared for learning."

在当时的一篇文章中，有人引用我的话,“我讨厌教学，因为学生们总是不做好,预习工作“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton makes a covenant with the reader. It's as if he's signing a contract because he's asking for credit here.

他与读者签了契约，就好像,因为他要借款所以签了份合同一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, you turned in p-set 3 today, but we'll have the answers posted for you this afternoon, so you can start studying from p-set 3, even as early as tonight, if you want to, because those answers will be there for you.

今天大家应该要交第三次作业了，而我们会在今天下午将答案给大家贴出来，这样大家就可以尽快开始复习第三次作业的内容了，甚至今天晚上就可以开始，如果你需要的话，这些答案将会给你一些帮助。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Because for the first time, you're being taught by people who are smart as you are.

因为这是第一次，教你们的人和你们一样聪明。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

For Aristotle however politics has a priority to all the others because as he has argued man is the political animal.

对亚里士多德而言,政治优先于其它学科,因为如他所主张人类,是政治的动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For those who are already engrossed in the reading of Ulysses, as well as for those who hesitate to begin it because they fear that it is obscure, the publishers offer this simple clue as to what the critical fuss is all about.

针对那些已经完全沉浸于这本书的人，以及那些因为害怕内容晦涩而还犹豫不决的人,出版商提供了一些简单的线索,告诉大家这部伟大之作的简要涵义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, this is known as dualism because the claim is, for humans at least, there are two separate things; there's our material bodies and there's our immaterial minds.

这便是二元论,因为它主张,至少对于人类而言,存在两种独立的成分,即有形的生理客体与无形的心理

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We don't need to know what the particular notes are, but let's look at this just for a moment because it works well as a prototype of melody.

我们不必确切地知道这些音符是什么,但是还是让我们来看一下,因为它简直就是旋律的典范

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We get a check for the Cheetos as well, but only because we're trained to believe that one tastes good and the other one doesn't, because in different cultures it would be the reverse.

我们还是选奇多作为食品,但选择的原因仅在于,所受的教育,告诉我们它好吃,而蟑螂不好吃,在不同的文化中情况可能是相反的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Yale also has an art collection, which is worth many billions, but we don't count that as part of the endowment because they will never sell it so it doesn't provide income for us.

耶鲁还有一些艺术藏品,价值好几亿美元,但我们并不把它作为基金的一部分,因为学校不会卖掉它们,所以它不会为学校提供任何收入

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because...certainly sad for me, as an academic.

因为。。。作为学者，我觉得很可悲。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That is also an advantage of using them as gene therapy vehicles because they will only infect cells that they are - that they have an affinity for or that they're prone to affect.

非常有利于将其,作为基因治疗的载体使用,因为它们只能感染那些--,它们对之具有亲和性,或者说它们倾向于去感染的细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And what we find, the first example of a Bronze Age-- and I use the word civilization now for the first time, because before the Bronze Age-- there is nothing that we would define as civilization.

我们发现的第一个文明出现在青铜时代,也是我第一次用文明这个词,因为在青铜时代之前,没有任何东西能称之为文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And, so, people would come down and they'd have their pictures taken with a picture, as if it was part of the true cross of the crashed Vendome column; because for once they had won, for once they had won.

所以,人们会来这里,和那张画合影留念,仿佛这是,旺道姆广场的纪念柱的墓碑,因为他们曾经胜利过,他们曾经胜利过

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So if I post it on Wednesday to cover the material for that week, then you should attempt it as quickly as possible because I'm going to assume you have done the problems when you come for the next few lectures.

如果我周三布置了关于该周课堂内容的作业,你们应该尽快着手去做,因为当你下周来上新课时,我会假设大家都已经把上周题目做完了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选