Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It all goes towards the better environment for us all.

这给我们所有人都带来了更好的环境。

我使用自行车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So this is giving me now that template, better way of saying it, all right, a template now, for a point is x, y, radius, angle.

其他的方法来进行计算，但是这就是典型的我，要放置它们的地方，因此这就给了我一个模板。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now, I know you've had all this bonding in the orientation period, but I think that it's much better when you write a test for there to be some solid state defects known as vacancies in between the various people.

现在，我知道你们关系很融洽,在互相介绍的时间里，但是我想这样会更好,当你们在一起做一个测试,成为固体化学的不良产品,成为众多人当中的缺位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It fundamentally didn't feel all that better.

不过总觉得不是很理想。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I say this in all my classes, I've published thousands of pages on different subjects, all of you can do it better, because you can do it from your own point of view you can do it afresh, you have new resources you are different people, you belong to different generations.

在每一门课上我都会这么说，我在不同课题上都,发表过许多文章，你们都可以做得更好，因为你们可以从自己的角度来做,你们可以做新鲜的，你们有新的资源,你们是不同的人，你们属于不同的一代人。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It's always a good first approximation, because you need to start somewhere in terms of drawing Lewis structures, but then if you go and figure out the formal charge and you just have lots of charge separation or very high charges, like a plus 2 and a minus 2 and a minus 1 all different places in the atom, what it should tell you is maybe there's a better structure.

它总是一个好的第一近似，因为在画路易斯结构的时候,你总需要一个起点，但是如果你在算出形式电荷之后,发现有很多电荷分开了,或者说有很高的电荷，比如有一个正二，一个负二，还有一个负一1,在原子的各个地方，这应该就是在告诉你,或许还有一个更好的路易斯结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And if you all survive this exercise you'll be better for it.

如果看到对比后，还能够挺过来,说明你离坚强又近了一步。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You know that in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud reminded us that the Freudian slip isn't something that happens just sometimes ; and nobody knows this better than an ad libbing lecturer; it's something that happens all the time.

在《日常生活的精神病理学》中，弗洛伊德提醒我们,弗洛伊德口误并不只是偶尔发生,即兴演讲者对于这一点最有体会;,它随时随刻都在发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

- On the other hand, we have to ask ourselves-- and this the question that I left us with last time- whether it would really, all things considered, be better to know how much time you had.

另一方面，我们不得不问自己-,这是上一次课我留下来的问题-,从全面考虑，知道你还有多少时间，是不是会更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or we've got to stay together for appearance's sake or we'd better stay together because financially it would be a disaster if we don't or all of the reasons other than intimacy and passion that people might commit to each other.

或者为了顾全家庭的脸面,最好还是生活在一起,如果任由关系破裂，经济上对双方是一个灾难,各种原因不解释，惟独不包括亲近和激情,两个人承诺在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选