But there's more, and this is why novels are long: - not too long, not too short, but of a certain length-- of a certain magnitude, as Aristotle puts it.

但是当然还有很多别的东西，要不这本书也不会那么长：,不是太长，但也不短，刚刚好能说明清楚问题的长度-,亚里士多德这么评价。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Maybe not the biggest one, but there was one when I was... I hadn't long been in the job.

可能不是最大的一次，但是有一场火灾，当我……当时我刚工作不久。

退休的消防员叔叔 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said, my apologies for not answering your letter but my health is poor and--but it was a long letter.

他写道,非常抱歉没能及时回复,我身体欠佳,这是一封很长的信

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Not so much as long as the single line But in fact groups of lines. The quote editions are Highly condensed; the folio edition are probably Come closer to the full play.

不一定是一句台词,而是大段的台词，引语版是,高度浓缩的，第一对开本可能,更接近完整的剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Then that's not a very long distance, probably easily walkable in a few minutes; but that child can't be walking through everybody's yard.

他们离得不远,可能走几分钟就到了,但是你的孩子却不能直接走到他的朋友家

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Slightly happy if you lower your levels of expectations, but not in the long term.

降低期望水平会略微快乐些，但从长远来说行不通。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The thesis of 3.091, and this is where the chemistry comes in, is that electronic structure of the elements holds the key to the understanding, not just the chemical bonding, but the long range atomic order.

这是这门课的论点，这是化学的研究点，也就是元素的电子结构,那即是理解的关键，不只是化学键，还有长程的原子排序。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.

这里至关重要的一点是永生,不仅意味着生存很长一段时间,甚至极其漫长的一段时间，而是指永远生存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But that's not all, that protein insulin is made in the form of a long polypeptide that not - that's not always the final version of the protein.

但这还没完,这个胰岛素蛋白刚翻译完成时,还是一段长多肽的形式,还不是蛋白质的最终形式

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Such a list may be long but not infinitely so.

这个问题清单可能很长，但不会是无限制的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is often the way relationships start "We like each other, I'm physically attracted to each other, I-- to you, I enjoy spending time with you but I'm not making any long-term commitments.

爱情经常以这种形式开场,我们喜欢对方，享受肌肤之亲-,享受一起度过的时光,但不做长远的承诺。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's kind of unsettling because we like to know what things are, but at the same time it's not really a big problem because as long as we know about the fact that a certain notion of literature exists in certain communities we can begin to do very interesting work precisely with that idea.

可能会有点让人不安，因为我们总想知道事物的定义，但知不知道,实际上问题不大,只要我们知道在特定群体中对文学有特定的认识,我们就能在这种认识上做文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Ford has to worry about what GM is doing and what Toyota is doing, and for the moment at least what Chrysler is doing but perhaps not for long.

福特关注通用和丰田的决策,现在可能暂时,还得关注克莱斯勒的决策

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The less than side is gonna be a less than sign, and then the word and is going to become not one & but two ampersands back to back, and we'll see why it's two and not one before long.

小于“侧还是用的“小于“,而中间的“and“将去掉,换成两个紧挨着的&符号，但至于为什么是&&而不是,我们以后会提到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选