I hadn't set out with a plan that I wanted to teach at some of the best universities in the country.

一开始，我并没有给自己制定目标,一定要在这些最好的大学执教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton tells himself to run, and naturally he would have to run fast indeed in order to arrive at a moment in time that had already occurred before he even set out!

弥尔顿告诉自己要跑起来了，而且他也确实不得不跑的很快,从而准时到达,他刚出发时就已经存在的目的地！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

- Just to give you another several fun facts -- and next week, once we've looked at your Problem Set "Zero Submissions," which, if you haven't filled it out yet, you'll see asks a few demographic questions, a few geek-type questions so we can get a sense of the students.

我给你们分享另外几个有趣的事实-,在下周，一旦我们看到你们的习题集上是,“零个意见书“，如果你们还没有填写那个习题集的话，你们可以问一些人数统计方面的问题，或一些古怪的问题，那样我们就能对学生有个初步的了解。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选