Local people would attack the Jews, or the Jews would try to set up an extra big meeting house for themselves, and it would cause local problems.

当地人攻击犹太人，或者犹太人企图建造超大的礼拜堂，引起各种问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I won't get into definitions of what torture is but it would cause somebody tremendous pain and anguish to keep them from sleeping.

我就不解释什么是施刑了,如果不让人睡觉的话,会给人造成巨大的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, a virus is not capable of reproducing on its own, so if you got a virus into your body somehow and it didn't enter any of your cells, it would cause no damage because it could not reproduce.

病毒自身并不能繁殖,所以如果你的身体感染了病毒,而病毒没有进入细胞的话,因其不能繁殖所以不会对身体造成伤害

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

What I would say about this one, cause it's most complicated, I would say, in the history of humanity.

我会说，因为,是非常复杂的，我会说，是整个人类史上最复杂的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

On the one hand, it could be that certain facts, if you knew them, would cause you to behave differently without actually giving you any reason to behave differently.

一方面，可能有某些事实，如果你知道了它们，会导致你的行为不同,但并没有真正地给你改变行为的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this is useful because if you're actually writing a program that's interactive or that you want to change overtime much like you would a game, hopefully, the game is not going to have the bad guys, for instance, always standing in the same place or the rocks or whatever it is falling from the sky in the same place 'cause it would very quickly become a very tedious game.

这是很有用的，因为如果,写一个交互的程序或者,希望每次游戏都不一样，我们希望，游戏中的坏人物，别老是站在同一个地方或者同一块石头上,或者从天空中同样的位置落下,因为这立刻会使游戏变得乏味。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选