And if you had a motor here that was causing a paddle to move up and down you could cause waves to form at one end of the tank and move from left to right.

如果在水槽里放个发动器,来让水上下起伏,波浪形成于,水槽的一端,然后从左向右扩散。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That could cause me pain but it doesn't mean I'm going to be nice to you.

这会让我也感到痛苦,但这不代表我就要对你好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All of Milton's labors in the cause of liberating England from the tyranny of monarchy had in some way - could be construed as having been useless.

弥尔顿为把英国从君主暴政解放出来,所做的努力在某种程度上,可以说是付之东流了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, that was a naturally occurring attenuated virus that could be produced into a vaccine that didn't cause the disease.

因为天花病毒存在天然的衰减病毒,这种衰减病毒可以用来,直接生产不致病的疫苗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Did you... I mean, cause I could predict both of where you are, you are in the west bank, you are in Israel, and not really seeing a way. You know what I mean. And so what did you resolve?

那你们，我的意思是，我能够预计,你们两个所处的情形，你在西岸，你在以色列，却不是很容易找到一个方式，你们懂我的意思吗？,你们如何解决的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

On the one hand, it could be that certain facts, if you knew them, would cause you to behave differently without actually giving you any reason to behave differently.

一方面，可能有某些事实，如果你知道了它们，会导致你的行为不同,但并没有真正地给你改变行为的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.

所以罗马人会，比如，会驱逐当地志愿消防部门，因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人，尤其是下层阶级集会的场所，在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now, a virus is not capable of reproducing on its own, so if you got a virus into your body somehow and it didn't enter any of your cells, it would cause no damage because it could not reproduce.

病毒自身并不能繁殖,所以如果你的身体感染了病毒,而病毒没有进入细胞的话,因其不能繁殖所以不会对身体造成伤害

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A writer like Mary Astell can employ Milton's revolutionary rhetoric to advance a cause to which John Milton himself would of course ; have had difficulty subscribing; a dead Milton could exercise a social power that had nothing whatsoever to do with the living Milton's own social views.

一个像玛丽·阿斯苔这样的作者可以用弥尔顿的革命性语言,来推动一项事业，一项约翰·弥尔顿本人当然很难,赞同的事业;,死去的弥尔顿竟然能够操纵与生前弥尔顿的社会观点,毫无关系的社会力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Teachers are more responsive to you, people treat you better, you have more opportunities to make your way through the world, you make more money, you have more access to things, and that could, in turn, cause you to improve your life.

老师更喜欢回应你，人们待你更好，你有更多的机会闯出自己的一条路，你赚到更多的钱，你能得到更多的东西，从而使你能改善你的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选