Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This is also important though for Roman politics, because if you're if a freedman, - or even if you're a free person-- sometimes see freemen would connect themselves to a powerful Roman who was higher status than them, because they could use him for important things.

同时对罗马政治也很重要，因为即使是自由人，甚至是自由民-,有时候也会依附有权有势,地位高于他们的罗马人，以谋求他们的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But it's not a big con, because you can set up experiments in free space far from everything, where objects will, in fact, maintain their velocity forever.

但这并不是个反例,因为你可以在一个远离一切的空间里做实验,在那里,物体可以永远保持现有速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.

所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

None of you got smallpox vaccinations, because once a country was certified to be smallpox free, there was no reason to-- there was no reason to vaccinate people any longer.

你们当中没人接种过天花疫苗,因为一旦一个国家确认不再有天花,就没有理由,就没有理由再给人们接种

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

First I go over the physical posture you should have because when you're sitting like we usually sit on the round cushion or the floor, re free of contact with people usually both your knees and your butt are for the kneeling.

首先理顺应有的身体姿势,因为打坐时,像我们常会坐在圆坐垫,或地板上，你要确定自己身旁不要有人，you，make，sure，you‘,通常两膝和臀部都要注意,都要碰到地面。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选