There was a period of time in which, although there were decent, chess-playing programs couldn't beat the best chess-playing humans.

尽管曾一度出现过,强劲的象棋程序,无法战胜顶级人类棋手的情形

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this was just a formal way of describing the best case running time and in the case of Selection Sort, what was the best case running time?

这是描述最好情况下运行时间的,一种正式的方式,在选择排序中，最理想的运行时间是多少呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So last time we introduced a new idea and the new idea was that of best response.

上一讲我们引入了一个新概念,这个新概念就是最佳对策

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

At best, one could say Hobbes is a kind of part-time liberal at best.

为此，可能有人要说霍布斯至多,也就是个业余自由主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Hard to believe today, but Sicily was one of the major granaries of the Mediterranean world at that time, tremendously fruitful, able to grow the best possible crops, very good wheat and so on.

在今天很难想象,但西西里是当时地中海地区,最主要的粮仓之一,产物丰盛,能够种植最好的谷物,上乘的小麦等等

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We have to build this whole new detector, is this really the best use of my time?

最后测到了132000个alpha粒子，我们还要找什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This is why even the best city, even Kallipolis will require, as he spends a great deal of time discussing, will require a warrior class, a class of what he calls "auxiliaries."

这就是为何就算是最优之城，就算是，Kallipolis，仍需要，如他费时讨论，都还是需要战士阶级，一个他称为，“后备的，“阶级“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选