It wasn't true for the gentleman who's sitting there now, but it was true for a lot of people.

但坐在那边的先生不是这样,但对很多人就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The majority of Englishmen were calling for the return of their nation's rightful monarch. It wasn't long before the revolution failed and the Stuart monarchy was restored.

大部分英国人都在呼吁国家的,合法君主归位，不久,革命失败了，斯图亚特王朝复辟。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yeah, good. So, they're actually helium atoms, helium ions. And this wasn't really important for the studies, it didn't matter that didn't know what they are but it's nice to kind of know now - that we do know what they were using.

氦粒子，这对他们的研究并不重要,他们并不需要知道它是什么,但我们最好知道,他们当时用的是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So Lesson 2, and this lesson probably wouldn't be worth stating, if it wasn't for sort of a century of thought and economics that said the opposite.

结论二,若要不是经济学,近一个世纪来讲的是相反的道理,这个结论都不值得一提

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's never--it probably wasn't quite that easy but the invading side goes for something that the other side will have to defend and that determines when the fighting takes place.

可能不会这么简单,但当入侵方为了某一目进行侵略,被侵方就不得不防守,这就决定了战争的爆发时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It wasn't what I saw for myself.

这本不是我预见的情况。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选