It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This quantity is exactly zero for an ideal gas and we'll discover why eventually it has to do with what we mean by an ideal gas it turns out.

对理想气体它是零,这点我们接下来会知道是,为什么，这与为什么我们叫它理想气体有关。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That can be supplied by an antagonist called Aldopa - which is not exactly the same as dopamine, it's slightly different.

这种物质能够由一种拮抗剂,叫做阿多巴转化而来,但它与多巴胺的结构并不完全相同,有一点差别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I just want to remind you, if I wanted to, for example, type in an expression like that, notice the syntactical form, it's an expression, a number, followed by an operand, followed by another expression.

我想要提醒下大家，如果你想要，例如，输入一个这样的表达式，注意语法形式，这是个表达式，一个数字，后面是一个运算对象，后面是另外一个表达式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well, if intuitively the problem is the result of dividing an int by an int, surely a solution is: "Don't do that," right?

好的，直观地看,如果那个问题的原因是因为整型数除以整型数的话,无疑有个解决方案是：“不要那样做“，是吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The addiction to alcohol is in a sense replaced by an addiction to knowledge.

从另一层面来讲,对知识的渴求这时征服了酒瘾。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's one by an English traveler, he entitled it, "A Georgia Planter's Method of Spending Time."

其中有一个是英国游客写的,题目叫,《一位格鲁吉亚种植园主的消磨时间法》

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Maybe it would be deceived by an artful demon.

你也可能是被某个艺术化的神怪欺骗了双眼。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He ended up being chased down the street by an angry mob.

他最终的下场,却是被一群愤怒的暴徒沿街追打

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When we look at the death of Socrates, do we think of it as a tragedy, as a moral tragedy, ? a just man sentenced to death by an unjust law?

当我们读到苏格拉底之死，我们是否会认为那是一场悲剧，道德悲剧，一名正义之士被不公的法律判处死刑？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's nearly always commissioned by the king to be performed at court before a private audience of select nobility, it's commissioned by an aristocratic family to be performed at the aristocratic family's estate to honor or to celebrate a specific occasion.

它几乎是由国王指派,去庭院表演给一部分贵族的，它是由一个贵族家庭指派,在贵族家族的房子里表演,是去庆祝一个特定场合的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some of the most important fascinating studies in the field of psychology where a person off the street was told by an experimenter to shock another person, even to the point where the other person is screaming to stop.

两者都是心理学领域,最精彩的研究，在街上随便找个人,在实验者的指示去电击另一个人，甚至电击到另一个人尖叫恳求停止。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You also read an article by Milgrom where Milgrom talks about Priestly cultic imagery serving as a kind of theodicy.

在米尔格罗姆的一篇文章中,这篇文章讲到祭司的宗教仪式,被形象化为一种神义论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Maybe that's just an illusion created by the fact that I'm getting this visual input from my body .

也许那种想法就是一个错觉,因为通过视觉我知道,肉体有位置,随之假设灵魂也有位置

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The iamb is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

抑扬格是一种简单的无重音的音节,后面跟着一个有重音的音节。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选