For a second he thought it was a skinned animal, and then he saw it was a woman."

他以为那是一种有皮的动物，后来才发现那是一个女人，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.

那些不喜欢他的人们,希望能找出更多书中没有提到的,他的思想，以打击此书的权威性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Because he thought that would be big enough that in Denmark, the temperature wouldn't go below zero.

因为他觉得这个数字,对于丹麦来说够大了，气温不会低到零度以下。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now these worries were raised by John Locke the great British philosopher, and he thought, this is too big a pill to swallow.

这是约翰·洛克提出的,他是伟大的英国哲学家，他认为，这个问题太大。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He had a little electrical thing just on— I don't know how he thought to do this.

将一个小型的电极插在,不知道他是怎么想到要这么做的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He didn't mention the name because, I assume, he thought everyone knew this was Blanc; but Marx was falsely attributed to having made that statement.

我猜他之所以没有提及原作者是因为，他认为大家都知道这句话的出处;,但由此马克思却被误认为,是那句话的原作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, it would be interesting to know what he thought about that.

所以,要知道他的想法是挺有趣儿的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He had Russian and English tutors that came in succession; he had drawing masters and so on, to cover the range of education thought to be appropriate to a young man of his station.

后来他还有了俄语和英语家教;,他还有绘画老师等等，他接受了非常全面的教育,那些教育在他国家被认为是非常合适的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he sat around and thought, "Well, I'm going to do something."

他坐下来就想,我得干点什么

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And one of the things one may immediately detect is whether or not the person who wrote the poem was indeed writing the poem and thought that she or he was in command, right?

一个人在阅读时很快就能发现,写这首诗的作者是否,真的是在独立作诗,认为自己对文字完全具有掌控权？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He was looking very like happy which has suprised me, I mean, he's very boisterous where there isn't anything to set back by that at all, which I thought isn't.

他看起来很高兴，这一点,令我惊讶，我是说，他仍然充满活力,就像没有遇到挫折,但是总的来说，确实没什么挫折。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There is a kind of manifest and knowing confusion of the two in literature-- and Freud always says that the poets preceded him in everything that he thought--which suggests that it is rather hard to keep these things separate.

文学中二者并没有明确区分-,他想来想去也找不到论据,这就证明,的确很难区分它们。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One comes across it periodically. Within the last year, a member of our law school here put forward this very argument and said he thought it was a good one.

就在去年，我校法学院的一名成员就提出了,同样是这个论点并加之褒奖。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选