I was being a little lazy on Wednesday in the interest of simplifying the code as much as possible.

在周三我在那个网站上尽可能地,简化代码的时候，我有点偷懒。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me."

内心有个新想法,可能性是有限的“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.

718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选