It was rather like parts of Africa before the 1880s.

有点像17世纪80年代前非洲的部分地区

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And unlike souls, where it was all rather mysterious, how you could tell whether body whether souls swapping, was taking place or not.

不像灵魂论，那么充满神秘，你如何去辨别肉体,或者，灵魂是否，持续在变化，并不那么神秘。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And we have much love. It was a neighborhood rather than a hood.

我家和邻居们都非常的相爱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It was a civilization that was rather advanced in terms of its agricultural skill.

这是一个文明,在农业技艺方面先进之所在

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Rather, what you would say is, "Well, I didn't think it was worth helping.

相反，你会说，”我不觉得这个人值得我帮。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So Musorgsky knew this law of acoustics because he was a professional musician and was playing off of it to create this rather unusual and remarkable musical sound-scape here.

穆索尔斯基明白这个声学规律,因为他是位专业的音乐家,他通过制造这非凡卓越的音乐场景,表达了这个规律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's as though I've walked across the stage like this realized, damn, it was the guy over here or rather I found the smallest element here who beat out number 2 over here so I can now put number 1 into place and recall that it didn't matte if I punted whoever was standing here 'cause they were given to me randomly anyway.

这就像是我这样走过讲台,然后才发现要找的人在那儿,或者说发现了最小的元素,那么就可以将1号放在正确的位置,而在这儿的是谁并不重要,因为他们本身就是,随机的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Even if we didn't have unpredictability, I mean rather, even if we had unpredictability, it wouldn't necessarily follow that death was pervasive in this way.

即使我们没有不可预知性，我的意思其实是，即使我们有不可预知性，但死也未必会,按照这种方式遍布。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Erik Others got a bio saying--thanks, Erik-- the speaker was rather cold and then it turned out later on when they're asked for their impressions of the speaker people are very much biased by what they first assumed.

其他人拿到的简介…谢谢，把演讲者描述成很冷淡，结果后来发现,当问及这些人对演讲者有什么印象时,人们都受到第一印象的偏向。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选