The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

and I'll be able to hold a conversation with anybody really about anything.

我将能够与任何人谈任何话题。

介绍好朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The only fingers with which he'll be able to hold his pen and write this poem are his forced fingers rude.

他能用来执笔写诗的手指,是他粗鲁的手指。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That is to say, there's a certain set of views I hold about the issues that we'll be discussing.

那就是说，我持某一个观点,关于我们要讨论的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It might be blood. Then whatever is believed to hold the power of this primordial life force, humans can tap into, and influence the activities of the metadivine realm.

可以是血液，无论哪个蕴含着,原始的力量，人类可以对此力量进行开发，影响超神领域的活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I want my children to be able to hold their heads high as Americans.

我希望我的孩子,作为美国人，能够昂首挺胸。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Because we hold relatively stable, relatively well-diversified portfolios, security selection turns out not to be an important determinant of returns for most investors and market timing turns out not to be an important determinant of returns.

因为持有相对稳定,和相对分散的投资组合,证券选择不再是,决定投资者回报率的重要因素,而市场时机选择,也不会成为决定回报率的重要因素

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And they're ready to go out, and Sal says: "Hold on a minute. I'll be right with you as soon as I finish this chapter," and it was one of the best chapters in the book.

他们准备出去，Sal说：,再等一分钟，我打完这一章就走,马上就好“,这是我书中最精彩的一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People didn't expect that to hold and so people thought, well it's going to still be down at 1% maybe in three months.

命中认为这项政策不会延续下去,利率仅会在未来三个月内维持在1%的低位

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选