If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So there will be parts of the class that'll be easier for some than others, but overall I'm not expecting you to learn a lot of detail but mainly the big picture, as I said.

所以我们的课程对大家来说,有的觉得困难,有的觉得容易,但总而言之,我不要求你们纠缠于细节,主要还是抓重点,我之前说过了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If you get asked about these readings, as you will on the exams, we're not going to be picky, and we're not expecting you to remember details, and not expecting you to understand concepts that you can't just grasp from the readings themselves.

如果到考试的时候,碰到这方面的问题,放心,我们不会太苛刻的,我们不指望你们记住具体的细节,也没想强迫你们去理解,仅从材料本身无法获得的思想

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选