It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

and she's now playing some pretty fairly difficult things considering that she has only taken for a couple of years. So,

尽管她才学了几年，她现在已经可以弹奏比较难的曲目了。所以，

和钢琴老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So it's the affinity it has for electrons, it's how much it likes to get an electron.

因此，它表示的是对电子的亲和力，即有多么希望得到一个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The second question was about China and there was a special report in the recent Economist talking about the ravenous appetite that China has for natural resources right now. I was curious what you ? thought the effect that would have on global financial ? markets and your investing strategy?

第二个问题是有关于中国的,在最近的《经济学人》杂志上有一篇特别报道,该报道是关于现在中国对自然资源的极度渴望,我非常想知道您个人认为,他们这种情况对全球金融市场会有什么影响呢,对您的投资策略又有什么影响呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Right. Well, I think that pluralism properly understood has respect for people with the secular position, with the Christian position.

是的，我认为经合理理解的多元主义,尊重持世俗立场的人们，尊重持基督教立场的人们。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now for generations the Apology has stood out as a symbol for the violation of free expression.

几个世纪以来，《苏格拉底自辩篇》,象征着对自由表述的侵害。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The argument Derrida is making about the emergence of his "event" is that a new transcendental signified has actually substituted itself for man.

德里达有关他的“事件“产生的论点是“,新的超验所,指已经取代了人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In 1928, and this is the next quotation on the handout, Milton has come to represent for Virginia Woolf a very different type of cultural force.

在1928年，这是讲义中的下一条引语，弥尔顿对佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫又成了,一种不同类型的文化力量的代表。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now that's not to say that this has implications for what people are eating now, but it certainly did at one point.

这么说并不是为了,影响人们现在的饮食,但在某一点上 的确如此

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Research on subjective wellbeing-- the term that psychologists use to capture happiness essentially has been going on for very, very long time.

对幸福的研究-,心理学家用这个词来描述快乐,已经进行了很多年。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It's not like the universe has singled me out for the deprivation of dying too soon.

宇宙没有只让我一个人,死得太早。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He knew things that I don't know, he has a genius for formulating theories, and helping people make discoveries, that I can't do in science.

他知道我所不知道的事情，他是创造理论的天才，帮助别人做探究，这些我在科学领域做不到。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The way we do that is we guess, and the guessing has been going on for 300 years, so we sort of know how to guess.

我们的解决方法就是猜,猜的方法已经沿用了300年,因此我们差不多知道该怎么猜

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Well, the next lines in Homer say that one soldier popped up and said, "Of all the great things Odysseus has done for us here, that was greatest, to shut up a big mouth idiot like Thersites."

书中接着写道,一名士兵站了出来,他说,"在奥德修斯为我们做的一切伟大事迹中,其中最了不起的,就是让忒尔西忒斯这样多嘴的白痴闭上嘴

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选