Remember when God said, "The sin of the Amorites is not yet complete, when they have sinned so much and to such a degree, they will be vomited out and then your tenancy can begin"?

记住上帝说的，“亚摩利人的罪孽还没有完，它们的罪孽是如此深重，他们最终将被驱逐，另一批人又重蹈覆辙，“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

How hard did you find it to figure out what food it was to begin with?

你认为选择从哪种食物下手会有多难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

the answer is, "When they were built, they were built in such a way as to have certain instructions that they begin to follow out."

答案是,在他们被创造出来时,就被构造成一种拥有特定指令,使它们能够依之开始工作的样子

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us, the Kasbeam barber. Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber? What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important? So here it is.

那么，我们从213页纳博科夫向我们指出的另一个,场景开始：理发师加斯比姆，为什么他花了一个月的时间,来创造理发师加斯比姆的形象呢？这个小片段里,发生了什么重要的事情呢？我们来看这里：

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I realize that I'm out of time, and so I'll begin the next lecture by talking about a poem of Yeats called "Lapis Lazuli" written in 1935, in which he talks about the way in which people who build up things that have been destroyed are always "gay."

好像时间差不多了，那么下节课一开始，我们就来,一起讨论叶芝的一首诗，名为《青金石》写于1935年，在这首诗中，叶芝写了那些重建家园,的人们，他们一直很快乐“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And if you haven't yourself dived into your own problem set zero, whose PDFs are available online, realize that if something like this, given that it's a minute or so long, kind of looks you know, despite the cutesiness of it, kind of overwhelming in that you don't really know where to begin, how could you possibly sketch out this whole story line.

如果你还没有真正沉下心来,看习题集0，网上可以提供这些PDF文件，好好地感受一下像这样的东西，假定只有一分钟左右这么长,先不管它外表看起来是否可爱,也不管它让人无从下手的压迫感,你怎样才能勾勒出,整个故事最初的框架呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Just like people have a genetic code, perhaps, that gives us various instructions that we begin to follow out, or certain innate psychology or what have you.

就像人类拥有基因编码,给我们传达各种各样,得以遵循的指示,或者是某种与生俱来的心理,等等等等

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'll begin to work out some sort of alternative immaterial theory.

我们会找到,其他的某种非物质理论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We don't really have a clue yet, or not much of a clue, as to how you could even so much as begin to-- it's not that merely that we don't have the details worked out.

毫无头绪,或者说,无从下手,你如何在这种情形下开个头,我们不只是不知道细节如何

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