One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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Biking in traffic is never safe, but you can make it a little bit safer.

上街骑单车不会绝对安全，但你可以采取点措施让它相对安全点。

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Well it could go twenty basis points lower but interest rates can never be negative.

呃，它可以再跌二十个基本点,但是利率永远不能是负值。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The philosopher can never be truly loyal to anyone or anything but what is best.

哲学家永远都不会真的对任何人或事物忠诚,而是追求最好的人事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

nd this convergence can never be precisely pinpointed, but must always remain virtual, as is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader."

而我们永远无法指出，“…,这种会合的确切位置，这个空间会一直以虚拟形式存在,不论是客观的文本,还是带有个人特征的读者都无法辨别它“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, hunger sets in and it becomes extremely sad and tragic, and attempts to break out simply don't work; but, it had its light moments, and I can never resist those.

饥饿来临,一切都变得如此悲惨,而尝试逃跑只是徒劳,但这其中也有些趣事发生,我对这些逸事总是没抵抗力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Not only in terms of the economic decisions that they can be make, but also in terms of people are able to throw their ways around in way the constitutions never authorize them to do.

不仅仅限于,他们可能做出的经济决定，还在于,人们可以不按常理出牌,以宪法,不允许的方式做事情。

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Life for Hobbes is an exercise in continual willing and continual choosing that may be temporarily interrupted but can never come to an end except with the end of life itself.

霍布斯的生活就是一种长期意愿的实施,和长期选择，有可能会被暂时打断,但是永远不会结束,除非他自己想那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A corporation is an entity that could be sued or could lose more money than it's worth, but the value of a corporation can never fall below zero to the investors because the investors are not liable for the mistakes of the corporation.

公司是一个实体,它可能被起诉,或者亏损额超过了自身的价值,但是对于投资者而言,公司的价值永远不会小于零,因为投资者对公司的过失,不负有责任

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选