As Heidegger points out in this passage, that's a thought experiment which, if it can be done at all, derives from that prior knowledge.

海德格尔在文章中指出，这个思想实验，在可以实现的前提下，来源于之前的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If people thought the stock was overpriced, well, people would have tried to sell it, and it would have come down.

如果人们觉得股票价格过高，人们就会把它卖了，价格就会下降。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Because I thought the payoffs - the two different payoffs that I could have gotten-- were highest if I chose Alpha.

因为我发现,如果我选α的话,我得到的两种结果是最优的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They thought, for example, if you could do something with one element, if you looked at an element very close to it, it would be similar enough that you could maybe replace it with that.

他们认为，比如，用一种元素可以做的，用它邻近的元素，代替它的位置,也应该能做到。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some people ask me if I want you to know the molecular weights and so on, and I thought that was bit excessive.

有些人问我,你们是否需要记住元素的相对分子质量，我认为这样的话要求有点过高了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Many people chose sculptress because they thought, well if she's a sensitive, artistic woman maybe she's a sculptress.

许多人选择了雕刻家,因为他们觉得,如果她既感性又有艺术感,也许她会是雕刻家吧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And if something within psychopathology I thought could contribute to our wellbeing, I took that and used that.

如果我认为精神病理学的内容能对我们的幸福有贡献，我会吸取并利用之。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Again, if you just thought about life as a ruler, well pretty good thinking about it in isolation.

再一次，如果你只考虑了统治者的生活，非常好地单独考虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You may remember that I had suggested in the lecture on the Nativity Ode that Milton may have thought of his career as if it were something like a race.

你们可能记得我在的演说中,曾经设想的，弥尔顿或许把他的职业,看作无休止的竞赛与追逐。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so I thought, hey, what if you sold the product directly to the customer.

我想，嘿，将产品直接卖给消费者怎么样。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

One of the inputs to the problems we're gonna be working on this semester and if you continue on in this world how much thought it takes to implement something, how much time it takes to run something, how much space it takes to run something?

我们将在本学期集中探讨这些问题,或者在课程之后你们也可以继续研究,为实现一些功能要有多少想法，在运行过程中又将花费多长时间，需要多大的空间？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And sometimes had them killed if he had to if he thought that's what he should do, because there wasn't any sort of challenge to his authority.

如果有必要,他甚至会杀掉那些碍事的议员,因为没有什么可以挑战他的权威

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now this is what Derrida is deliberately struggling with in this first paragraph: an "event" , if this loaded word did not entail a meaning thought to reduce or to suspect.

这就是德里达,在第一段着力解决的问题：,一个事件，加引号的，…,如果这个词的意思没有,减少或怀疑的意图。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So they thought, "Alright, if the company is so great, if we have such a bright future, why you don't do a better job for your employees than the other Internet companies?" It was a tough call for me.

于是他们觉得：“如果百度真这么好，如果前景真的如此光明，为什么不能在员工待遇方面,做得比其他公司更好呢？“，那时我感觉左右为难。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Or, if you take England,for example, people came to care in very major ways what people in Manchester thought because Manchester becomes the capital essentially of the north and the economic center of production.

或者,拿英格兰举例,曼彻斯特人的意志具有很大影响力,因为那里对于北部的重要性堪比首都,并且是工业经济中心

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Jonas Salk, who probably you've heard the name, was a physician who, at the time thought, "Well if we can make large quantities of this virus then perhaps we can make it into a vaccine."

乔那斯?索尔克,你们可能听说过他,他是一名内科医生,在当时认为,如果我们可以制造大量病毒,那么我们或许可以使其转化为疫苗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选