So the open curly brace followed by the closed curly brace means everything inside of these curly braces should get executed, but only if that first condition is actually true.

所以左花括号后面跟着,右花括号，这意味着花括号里面所有的代码,都应该是要被执行的，但只有当第一个条件是正确的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Not all of these opinions are shared by the same number, by no means, of scholars. Some of them are far out.

这些观点的支持率也不一样,也就是说,这些学者中的有些观点已经明显过时了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, these two facts taken together, thin slices and the power of first impressions, means that just by a brief exposure to somebody it shapes so much of how you're going to think about them in the future.

综合考虑这两方面，薄片效应和第一印象的影响，意味着只需要短暂地接触对方,就能决定,你以后对他们有什么看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.

如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Let's see how these play out by means of a quick review of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony so all we're going to do here is going to go from the beginning of the track for the first movement to the second movement and so on, and well, let's just start here.

让我们通过迅速回顾贝多芬的第五交响曲,看乐章是如何表现的,我们现在要从,乐曲的第一乐章开头开始,听到第二乐章,以此类推,好,让我们从这开始

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选