The purpose of law, Hobbes tell us, is not so much to control but to facilitate.

他还是说，法律的目的并非是要控制什么,而是要让事情变得井井有条更容易处理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I feel bad saying that. But his schizophrenia has been under control.

谈起这些我真的很同情他。不过他的精神分裂症已经得到控制。

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But the new Presbyterian Party soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control and regulate the church.

但新的长老派很快就发展了自己的办法,那就是利用政府权力控制和管理教会。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But they tried to do that only when they needed to do so to keep their absolute control.

不过他们只有需要保持绝对权力时,才会这么做。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But also, the students put in actually more time into the class and they outperformed the control group.

而且学生对课业,付出更多时间，成绩比对照组好。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But luckily we had the control of the red laser pointer where nothing moved at all.

但是很幸运我们可以,控制红色激光笔,虽然什么都没有移动。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So I'm going to call that chips implanted in the brain to control prosthetics, but I'm going to make it a little bit more general and call a brain-machine interface.

我要谈谈,能控制假肢的植入性脑芯片,我会简要的谈到,我们把它称为脑机接口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But he can control them there.

他想做的就是想把他们牢牢地钳制住

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So control of these international highways brought a great deal of wealth to the area, but the central location was a double-edged sword, because in times of peace it would bring prosperity, but, of course, in times of war the land was perpetually invaded as armies would crisscross the land going off to do battle with the great powers.

对这些国际要道的控制,给这个地区带来了大量的财富，但这处于中心的地理位置也如同一把双刃剑，因为在和平时期它带来繁荣，但，在战乱时期，这块土地常常被侵略,当军队在此刀刃相交,或者经过与强国征战。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What this entails is just trying to stop controlling things, but I also mistake it a little bit because by stopping controlling things, you're going to control it more.

必须的是,试着放手不去控制事物，但这也是个悖论,因为想不控制事物，反而会加强控制。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The reform of politics may not be within our power but the exercise of self-control always is.

政治改革,也许并非我们能力所及,但自控的练习却永远是想要参与政治改革的个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There may be circumstances under which it's the case but it's often difficult to control.

可能在某些环境下可以做到,但是通常情况下很难控制。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Please observe too that it is not his reason that will determine human actions but his will alone, free of the moderating control of reason.

注意这不是他仅凭意志,决定人类行为的理由,而是理性对自由意志产生了潜移默化的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It reveals maybe a little bit of the power and extravagance and glory that you feel in her poems but that she preferred always to restrain and bind and control in extraordinary ways, and not always to hide.

这可能显露出了她诗中所蕴含的,力量，铺张和骄傲，尽管她一直极力压制着,以及非凡的约束和自制，她并不总是隐藏这些。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选